Season 7 Episode 20: We Have Always Had a Union (ft. Shaun Richman)

Labor scholar Shaun Richman joins us to talk to Ben Burgis about his book "We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953." Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument on the absurd attacks on Zohran that have been made everywhere from National Review to Reason to...Matt Taibbi's Substack. (Goddamnit, Matt.) In the postgame for patrons, Ben and the crew get heart-breakingly close to finally being done with "Jordan Peterson vs. 20 Atheists."

Read Ben's MSNBC article on the hysteria about city-owned grocery stores:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/zohran-mamdani-grocery-stores-food-deserts-panic-rcna216332

Read his Jacobin article on the "seize the means of production" hysteria:

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/zohran-mamdani-socialism-bernie-taibbi

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https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088537

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