S7 E3: Ships, Swords, and Fences

Scene on Radio: Capitalism

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

Society & Culture, Audiodoc, Radio, Documentary, Stories

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

From the voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama to colonial conquest and the Atlantic Slave Trade, to the privatization of land in western Europe: humanity’s turn toward the capitalist world we live in now.

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Jayati Ghosh, Jason Hickel, Jessica Moody, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Silvia Federici, and Eleanor Janega. Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Gergo Varga and Harper Biewen. "Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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0:00.0	I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour. My colleagues and I
0:04.8	unpack what's happening in a very complicated world. You'll hear from the New
0:09.2	Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers,
0:11.7	Gilani Cobb on race and justice,
0:14.0	Jill Lepore on American history,
0:16.0	Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on culture,
0:19.0	Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.
0:22.0	To get the context behind events in the news, climate change and many more.
0:22.5	To get the context behind events in the news,
0:25.3	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:27.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.7	Okay, here I go.
0:40.0	I'm sitting there. Okay, here I go. Hello?
0:40.0	Hello? John is that you? Hello?
0:42.0	John, is that you?
0:45.0	It's me.
0:46.0	calling from Barcelona.
0:48.0	Now I think you knew I was here recording for our project. I did. I did. I'm jealous I'm not there with you but I
0:56.9	want to hear everything. Well you will. For the moment though and this is really
1:01.7	not by any means the main reason I came to Barcelona,
1:05.0	but I'm sitting here in a little outdoor cafe looking up at the monument to Christopher Columbus. Prominent landmark here in Barcelona,
1:17.0	basically overlooking the port. It's one of these that's on a tall column 60 meters high that's almost 200 feet.
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