Monthly Archives: July 2025

Malcolm Harris WHAT’S LEFT: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis

On this edition of Forthright Radio our guest is journalist, author, activist and critic, Malcolm Harris.

After being arrested in the October 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest on the Brooklyn Bridge, his court case became “a significant focus of attention for its involvement of posts to social networking sites and legal arguments over who controls that material” as the prosecution sought to undermine his defense using his own Twitter posts which he had deleted.


His books include Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials; Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World; and most recently What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, published in Spring, 2025 by Little, Brown.

We spoke with Malcolm Harris about his latest book, which includes a reference to Judi Bari, on July 21, 2025 via Zoom. He was very patient and kind, re-connecting after a couple of disruptive technical problems.

Articles, etc. pertinent to this interview:

Gil Duran on Trump, Tech, and “The Nerd Reich” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2W3tmCBEnE

What’s the Matter with Abundance? https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundance-harris

Kurdish leader Ocalan issues message from prison, urging PKK to disarm to make peace with Turkey https://apnews.com/article/turkey-pkk-ocalan-peace-talks-68decd55c35fa537f04b117bc9736128

Kurdish leader Ocalan told the PKK to disband, it did: Here’s what to know https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/13/kurdish-leader-ocalan-told-the-pkk-to-disband-it-did-heres-what-to-know

Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/trump-energy-environment-agenda

The Revolutionary and Radical Tenderness of Andrea Gibson https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/andrea-gibson-poetry.html

Andrea Gibson – Homesick: A Plea For Our Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsmKDa2qQ-w&list=RDJsmKDa2qQ-w&start_radio=1

Andrea Gibson – Say Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfh3z55AL9s

Andrea Gibson MAGA HAT IN THE CHEMO ROOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCX-0zJTEbk&list=RDWCX-0zJTEbk&start_radio=1

Andrea Gibson – Living Proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADJJ4W9p3c

When It Comes to Undermining America, We Have a Winner https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-republican-party-democracy.html

Has America learned anything from the George Floyd uprisings? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/13/has-america-learned-anything-from-the-george-floyd-uprisings

Nearly 300 pages of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ records released after first-of-its-kind ruling https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/atlanta-police-foundation-cop-city-records

Is Decarbonization Dead? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jesse-jenkins-jane-flegal.html

‘We were heard’: the Pacific students who took their climate fight to the ICJ – and won https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/pacific-students-who-won-climate-case-icj-international-court-of-justice-hague

Caribbean leaders hail ICJ climate ruling as ‘historic’ win for small island states https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/caribbean-leaders-hail-icj-climate-ruling-as-historic-win-for-small-island-states

Anand Pandian SOMETHING BETWEEN US: The Everyday Walls and How to Take Them Down

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment in Earth & Planetary Sciences.

His books include A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, published in May, 2025 by Stanford University Press.

He has written that he sees these books as chapters in an ongoing anthropology of the open mind, a mind open to the differences and uncertainties of a wider world, committed to the significance of transformative encounters and relations. Openness of mind, he believes, is a necessary foundation for environmental ethics, the cultivation of ecological sensibility, the pursuit of livable relations with the natural world, a critical resource for the ecological trials of our time.
He serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration.

We spoke with Anand Pandian on July 7, 2025 via FaceTime from his home in Baltimore, MD.

Articles pertinent to our conversation:

I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/01/united-states-polarization

What I learned from an unlikely friendship with an anti-masker https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/19/anti-masker-unlikely-friendship

New Mexico sues US air force over Pfas pollution from military base https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/10/new-mexico-us-air-force-pfas

Landmark US study reveals sewage sludge and wastewater plants tied to Pfas pollution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/pfas-pollution-sewage-wastewater

Trump administration yanks $15m in research into Pfas on US farms: ‘not just stupid, it’s evil’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/trump-pfas-research-funding-farms

‘Alligator Auschwitz’: Nickname for new ICE facility renews debate over Nazi comparisons https://www.timesofisrael.com/alligator-auschwitz-nickname-for-new-ice-facility-renews-debate-over-nazi-comparisons/

Natasha Hakimi Zapata ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Lessons for America from Around the Globe

Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator based in London, U.K. She was born in Chicago to a Mexican mother and Iranian father and raised in Mexico City and Los Angeles.

In 2014 she collaborated on The Transborder Immigrant Tool Book published by the University of Michigan Press.


Her book, ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Lessons for America From Around the Globe, is published by The New Press. In it she travels to countries and investigates ways they have created governments and cultures that support the wellbeing of their citizens and environments.

Her work appears regularly in The Nation, The L A Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, and elsewhere.


We spoke with Natasha Hakimi Zapata on June 24, 2025 via FaceTime while she was traveling in Europe.

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/climate/trump-end-protections-for-58-million-acres-of-national-forests.html

To Rebuild Post-Fire, Los Angeles Should Look to Singapore https://jacobin.com/2025/05/la-fires-singapore-public-housing

All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/20/all-babies-in-england-to-get-dna-test-to-assess-risk-of-diseases-within-10-years

Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/housing-crisis-in-europe-vienna-renters-social-housing