Behind the News: State Prison w/ Wanda Bertram
Plus: James Chappel on "postliberalism."
September 8, 2022
53 min
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September 8, 2022
Behind the News: State Prison w/ Wanda Bertram
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<p>Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative joins to discuss the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around cash bail in New York). Then historian James Chappel talks about "postliberalism," namely the reactionary Catholic law prof Adrian Vermeule (a contributing editor of the would-be left–right hybrid magazine, <em>Compact</em>). This is an encore version of a show first broadcast in April.</p><br /><p><em>Behind the News</em>, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: <a href="https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html</a></p>
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