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Trotsky & the Wild Orchids is back from summer break 2019! Our schedules have been quite busy, but we will try to release new episodes on the 1st of the month.

Ep Thirty-Nine: Harvey Kaye

Jan 7, 2021

Ray and Andrew return from a recording hiatus to have a conversation with the historian Harvey Kaye.

Ep Thirty-Eight: Reed on Race Reductionism

Aug 12, 2020

Class reductionism or race reductionism? Listen in as Andrew and Ray speak with Touré Reed about his book Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism.

Ep Thirty-Seven: Derek Catsam on Rugby

Aug 10, 2020

Derek Charles Catsam, professor of history and humanities at University of Texas-Permian Basin, joins Andrew and Ray for a conversation about race, class, and rugby in sports history. For this episode we read Catsam's essays for Africa is a Country.

Ep Thirty-Six: The Pandemic's Social and Psychic Context

Jun 2, 2020

Salik Farooqi comes on the show to discuss the pandemic from the perspective of political sociology. For this episode we read: An Organic Crisis is upon Us; On the Concept of History; Gooseberries; Pandemic’s Lesson: Global Capitalism is Uneven and Dangerously Particularistic; The Myth of Sisyphus; and the Wiki on...

Ep Thirty-Five: Sweden's Response to Covid19

May 19, 2020

Professor Gina Gustavsson from the Department of Government at Uppsala University speaks with Ray and Andrew about Sweden's response to covid19. Listen in as we consider the meaning of nationalism during a pandemic.