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Today’s show is a somewhat altered version of a program that first aired on November 3rd, 2015, called Tracking Subversives with the noted scholar of the “literary Left,” Alan Wald. According to Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” Wald has published a trilogy of books brought out by the University of North Carolina …

Tim Brennan joined me in the WFHB studio when he was in Bloomington to deliver the lecture “Biopolitics: The Limits of the Liberal Imagination” as a guest of the Contemporary Africa Seminar Speaker Series. The conversation ranged from the aforementioned biopolitics to seeing the state as a precious and necessary form of human freedom even as we challenge its current …