Ben Kritikos

We Insist!

Prayer, Protest and Jazz in the Civil Rights Movement

17 hrs ago

January 2026

Reflections On a Year Spent Listening

To listen is to actively participate in being alive, as subjecting the world’s noise to your own perception is to bring a semblance of meaning into the…

Jan 17

December 2025

The End of Spaghetti For Brains

After ten years, I’m retiring the imprint.

Dec 21, 2025

September 2025

Food, Sex and Money

A Marxist writing workshop & other news

Sep 27, 2025

March 2025

Daddy Issues

An open letter to my son

Mar 19, 2025

February 2025

Saint | Citizen

Join me for a listening event and open discussion at the National Library of Scotland

Feb 28, 2025

December 2024

"Seeing the World in a Piece of Plastic"

A Guide to Red White Blues Episodes 1-21

Dec 28, 2024

January 2024

Worthy of Freedom

Duke Ellington and the Promise of Democracy

Jan 15, 2024

October 2023

The Swing Era (part two)

"Strange Fruit" and the emergence of American empire

Oct 17, 2023

September 2023

The Swing Era (part one)

How the Jazz Age signalled the Age of Oil

Sep 19, 2023

August 2023

The Passive Voice

Reflections on the George Floyd uprising

Aug 15, 2023

March 2023

Red White Blues: an Anthology of America's Music

I'll be hosting a new radio show, spinning jazz records at Radio Buena Vida, right here in Govanhill

Mar 31, 2023