Announcing Hot & Bothered Season 2: Pandemic Edition
We are back for a new series of the Hot & Bothered podcast, with weekly episodes on climate politics in the time of coronavirus. But we won’t be able to do it without your support.
Winter 2024
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Hot & Bothered: Bold Visions for a Green New Deal
We can only decarbonize fast and reduce social inequalities at the same time with a new political economy.
Hot & Bothered: Radical Pragmatism
A Green New Deal needs to translate lofty ideas into specific interventions. How quickly can we decarbonize our energy grid, how do we overcome the institutional obstacles of the American political system, and how do we put frontline communities in the lead?
Social Reproduction and the Pandemic, with Tithi Bhattacharya
The coronavirus crisis has made clear that care and life-making work are the essential work of society.
Hot & Bothered: Beyond the New Deal
It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.
Hot & Bothered: Building Power, with Naomi Klein, Jane McAlevey, and Julian Brave NoiseCat
What do political mobilization and economic reconstruction look like in the face of a climate emergency?
The first in a four-part series on how we win a Green New Deal.
After Carbon Democracy
The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change.
Can Extinction Rebellion Survive?
XR promised to transcend politics as we know it. Yet politics has a stubborn way of catching up with those who disavow it.
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
The Green New Deal will need to be subject to constant vigilance and pressure—from experts who understand exactly what it will take, and from social movements that have decades of experience bearing the brunt of false climate solutions.
Design for a Green Future 
The Green New Deal will require us to revolutionize the design professions, untethering them from the whims of private clients and capitalists and reorienting their work around movements for housing justice, environmental justice, and workers.
Agribusiness against the Amazon
The fires in the Amazon are within the historical average. That’s why we should worry.
Material World
Bruno Latour’s flirtations with the paranoid style of climate politics are a summation of ideas long in the making—ideas that those attempting to preserve a planet shared by all will have to take into account, but will also have to reach beyond.
Political Scenarios for Climate Disaster
In the Global North we often act as if our future will be a warmer version of today: liberal capitalism, plus flood insurance, minus coral reefs. That future is a fantasy.
Indigenous Resistance Is Post-Apocalyptic, with Nick Estes
Nick Estes discusses the deep historical roots of the convergence at Standing Rock, why Indigenous peoples have taken a leading role in the climate justice movement, and why decolonization must be part of any left-wing agenda.
The End of the World as We Know It?
If the humanities can’t produce thinkers who can get us out of this mess, they are still producing some of the best commentators on where it has come from and where it threatens to take us.
