Mike Davis – Biography Flash is your definitive podcast guide to the life, work, and lasting influence of Mike Davis, the American Marxist historian, urban theorist, political activist, and award-winning writer who transformed how the world thinks about cities, ecology, labor, and inequality. Hosted by Marc Ellery, each episode delivers a richly detailed and thoroughly researched biography of Davis, from his working-class roots in Fontana, California, through his years as a truck driver and meatcutter, to his emergence as one of the most important public intellectuals in America and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. The show explores the groundbreaking books that defined his career, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, Planet of Slums, and The Monster at Our Door, examining how his prescient analysis of urban inequality, environmental catastrophe, pandemic risk, and the politics of disaster continues to shape conversations today. Beyond the core biograp
