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S7 E13: CAPITALISM Bonus, Live at Motorco

Sarah Rogers — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

With our Capitalism season and the election behind us, now what? Can we find hope and a way forward? In a live show taped December 5, 2024, at Motorco Music Hall in Durham, North Carolina, Season 7 co-hosts John Biewen and Ellen McGirt are joined by journalism professor, podcaster, and two-time Scene on Radio co-host Chenjerai Kumanyika. They discuss how to move toward a more democratic economy and society – with the live audience, and with Camryn Smith and Courtney Smith of Durham’s Communities in Partnership.

Episode art: Photo by Summer Steenberg. Music by Michelle Osis and Lilli Haydn. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 E12: Reimagined Economies

Jatu McCray — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In our season finale, we visit with people on two continents who are turning core structures of capitalism on their heads – or, at least, sideways.

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with John Fullerton, Ander Exteberria, Deseree Fontenot, Corrina Gould, Regan Pritzker, Dana Kawaoka-Chen, Mateo Nube, and Marjorie Kelly.

Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis; Lilli Haydn; Chris Westlake; Alex Symcox; and goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Episode art by Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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Bonus Episode: Empire City: The untold Origin story of the NYPD

Jatu McCray — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:30:02 +0000

The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explores where the police came from.

From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack.

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S7 E11: Better Capitalism?

Jatu McCray — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we look at reforms aimed at making the current economic system more humane, fair, effective, and sustainable.

By John Biewen with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Lutz Schwenke, Jordi Llatje i Espinal, Marjorie Kelly, Oren Cass, Jayati Ghosh, John Fullerton, and Rick Alexander.

Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Episode art by Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 Ep10: The Extracted

Jatu McCray — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000

A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial side of early capitalism – Western countries getting rich at the expense of poorer nations – ever change, or does it continue today?

Reported by Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo and written by Ugochi and Loretta Williams, with co-hosts John Biewen and Ellen McGirt. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Mixed by John Biewen. Interviews with Achike Chude, Chernoh Bah, Bart Van Besien, and others.

Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Episode art by Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 E9: At the Tipping Point

Jatu McCray — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In 1972, a team of young scientists at MIT published a study exploring what would happen to human civilization if people kept pursuing endless economic growth on a finite planet. They weren’t just disbelieved, they were ridiculed. The story of Donella Meadows and The Limits to Growth.

Reported and produced by Katy Shields and Vegard Beyer, with co-hosts John Biewen and Ellen McGirt. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Archival audio of Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Aurelio Peccei, Jay Forrester, and others. Interviewee: John Fullerton.

Original music by Nora Beyer. Additional music by Michelle Osis and Lili Haydn. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 E8: The People’s Pushback

Jatu McCray — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Over several decades, a growing number of people in the United States and elsewhere – especially younger people – have turned against capitalism. The reasons are not hard to find.

Reported by Lewis Raven Wallace and produced by John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Esteban Kelly, Josh Bivens, Malaika Jibali, and Evan Caldwell.

Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0

Jatu McCray — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000

After 40 years of neoliberalism, most Americans of every political stripe agree that the economy is “rigged” in favor of corporations and the wealthy. But we may not know the half of it.

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Nancy MacLean, Edward Balleisen, Brad DeLong, Marjorie Kelly, and Oren Cass.

Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Chris Westlake, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 E6: Thirty Glorious Years

Jatu McCray — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000

How the balance of power shifted, for a time, in the decades after World War II, and led to a better kind of capitalism – if you think prosperity being broadly shared is a good thing.

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Eric Rauchway and Brad DeLong. Thanks to the Studs Terkel Archive at WFMT.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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S7 E5: A New Thing in Human History

Jatu McCray — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000

An age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate research lab – leads to a surge in material wealth like the world has never seen. How does a new nation, the United States, overtake its parent as the leader of the capitalist order? And what does it all mean in the lives of ordinary people?

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Woody Holton, Robin Alario, Edward Baptist, and Brad DeLong.

Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Gergo Varga and Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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