Ben Fong on Drugs in America
On this episode of American Prestige, Ben Fong, author of Quick Fixes, on our nation’s history with substances.
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Drugs in America, Pt. 1 w/ Ben Fong | American Prestige
On this episode of American Prestige, hosts Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner are joined by Ben Fong of Arizona State University for a two-part discussion of his book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge. In this episode, the group covers everything from coffee to opiates to antidepressants, how they interact with capitalist society, the CIA, commodity fetishism, licit vs. illicit as distinct from legal vs. illegal, and more.
Check out more of Ben's work at his Substack on labor and logistics, On the Seams.
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On this episode of American Prestige, we’re joined by Ben Fong of Arizona State University for a two-part discussion of his book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge. We cover everything from coffee to opiates to antidepressants and how they interact with capitalist society, touching on the CIA, commodity fetishism, the definitions of licit vs. illicit as distinct from legal vs. illegal, and more.
You can check out more of Ben’s work at his Substack on labor and logistics, On the Seams.
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
The History of the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple / American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with artist and writer Molly Crabapple about her book on the history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. They discuss Molly's personal connection to the story, the Pale of Settlement and Jewish emancipation, the founding of the Bund in 1897, the Bund's armed self-defense against pogroms, its fraught relationship with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, the Bund's rivalry with Zionism, the flourishing of Bundist culture in interwar Poland, and the lessons of the Bund’s story for the Jewish left today.
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