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Jacobin Radio
News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.
Episodes
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Protest in Iran
Suzi talks to Iranian scholar and activist Yassamine Mather about the growing protest movement in Iran, sparked by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini in police…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Gondola Song
We discuss death, bureaucracy, and postwar Japan in Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece IKIRU (1952). PLUS: Everything you always wanted to know about Toronto's…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Antony Lerman on Antisemitism, Israel, and the Left
The question of how to define antisemitism has become a major political controversy. Many leading political figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu, now insist…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Saving the Earth
Doug speaks with Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, authors of Half-Earth Socialism, about their scheme to save the world. Behind the News, hosted by Doug…
Jacobin RadioSpecial: Adam Tooze on Inflation and the Cost-of-Living Crisis
On the occasion of Jacobin's "Inflation" issue release party, Samir Sonti interviewed historian Adam Tooze at the Mayday Space in Brooklyn. This is audio from…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Mussolini's Shadow w/ David Broder
Grace speaks to historian David Broder about Italian fascism following the recent elections in which the Italian far-right party led by Giorgia Meloni, the…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Lula's Road to Power
Sabrina Fernades, Alex Hochuli, and Ben Fogel join us for a major overview and analysis of the state of the Brazilian election. Will Lula pull off his…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Learn to Code
In 2015, three American armed forces vets foiled an attack on a train to Paris. Three years later, Clint Eastwood enlisted the boys to re-enact their…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Europe w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik Leusder
Featuring Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the…
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Jacobin Show: Privatization of Everything w/ Donald Cohen
We're joined by Donald Cohen, executive director of the policy organization In The Public Interest, to discuss his new book The Privatization of Everything…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Nuclear Blackmail w/ Ilya Matveev
Suzi talks to Ilya Matveev about Russia's destructive war on Ukraine, now at a critical juncture. Putin has annexed four regions of Ukraine after holding…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Ukraine Horror w/ Anatol Lieven
Doug interviews Anatol Lieven on the horror in Ukraine and diminishing chances for peace. Anne Rumberger, author of a recent article for Salvage about the…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: I'm Not Mad
The new documentary series UNPRECEDENTED (2022) seeks to offer an unfiltered look at the Trump family in the weeks before the 2020 election and the January 6…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: On the Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Italian Fascism w/ David Broder
Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss his recent Catalyst essay that assesses the possibilities and limits of a post-work socialist society. We're also joined by…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Internet Enclosure w/ Ben Tarnoff
This week, Grace speaks to Ben Tarnoff, author of Internet for the People. They talk about the origins of the web, how it was enclosed and privatized, and ways…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered
A memorial to Barbara Ehrenreich, who died at 81 on September 1, featuring three Behind the News interviews with her from 2004, 2005, and 2009. Behind the…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Penn and Paintbrush
Libertarian magicians Penn & Teller turn their gaze to the art world in TIM'S VERMEER (2013), a documentary that attempts to prove that, with just the right…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Elizabeth Schmidt on Somalia and the Superpowers
Elizabeth Schmidt joins Long Reads for a discussion about Somalia's modern history of politics, crisis, and foreign intervention. Elizabeth is professor…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Can We Red the Fed? w/ Samir Sonti
Samir Sonti joins us to talk about why the Federal Reserve has so much power over the economy and why its typical response to inflation is bad for workers. But…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Seizing the State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist, scholar, and professor of geography at the City University of New York. She is the author of several…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Rail Worker Struggle w/ Nelson Lichtenstein
Suzi talks to UCSB labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein to get his analysis of the impending rail strike and the tentative deal reached to prevent it by labor…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Coronation Training Montage
We mark Queen Elizabeth's passing by looking at towering work of royalist kitsch, THE KING'S SPEECH (2010). We discuss how this Oscar-winner humanizes the…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Pain and Power w/ Arielle Angel
Doug discusses child poverty: How much was it down, really? Then Mario Pino offers another view of the Chilean constitutional referendum. Finally, Arielle…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Emancipation Circuit w/ Thulani Davis
Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civil…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Chile Rejects New Constitution
Suzi talks to Pablo Abufom and Oscar Mendoza to get their analysis of the monumental defeat in Chile on Sunday, September 4, when Chileans went to the…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Is Culture Dead? w/ Catherine Liu & Eileen Jones
We're joined by the left's preeminent cultural critics, Catherine Liu and Eileen Jones, to assess why cultural production is so awful right now and what its…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Challenges in Chile w/ Antonia Atria
Chilean political activist Antonia Atria explains why that country’s voters rejected a proposed new constitution. Juliana Fredman, a public interest lawyer in…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism, intergenerational organizing, internationalism, and a whole lot…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and Empire (Part 2)
Deepa Kumar returns to Long Reads for a discussion about imperial militarism and its relationship to Islamophobic bigotry. Deepa is a professor of journalism…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: State Prison w/ Wanda Bertram
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative joins to discuss the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around cash…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: In Old Brazil w/ Violet Lucca
One of the key films of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha's masterpiece TERRA EM TRANSE aka ENTRANCED EARTH (1967) envisions a fictional Latin…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: All Work, No Play
Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa
Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Confronting Capitalism w/ Vivek Chibber
Vivek Chibber, author of Confronting Capitalism, joins Jen Pan to explain what we can learn from both the Bolshevik and social democratic past to more…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Mark Fisher's Legacy w/ Matt Colquhoun
Matt Colquhoun talks about Mark Fisher on the reissue of his essay collection Ghosts of My Life. Then Matt Huber, author of a recent article for the New Left…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Parliamentary Socialism w/ Andrew Murray
This week, Grace talks to Andrew Murray, former chair of the Stop the War Coalition, former chief of staff at the Unite trade union, and former advisor to…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Alex's War
The new documentary ALEX'S WAR (2022) seeks to "look past the caricature" of the Infowars gadfly Alex Jones. Your hosts find themselves disagreeing on the…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and Empire (Part 1)
Deepa Kumar joins Long Reads for a discussion about imperial militarism and its relationship to Islamophobic bigotry. Deepa is a professor of journalism and…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: New Deal Order w/ Gary Gerstle
Historian Gary Gerstle joins us to discuss what gave rise to the New Deal political order, the role that global communism played in the capital-labor…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Crisis in Sri Lanka w/ Indrajit Samarajiva
Doug is joined by David Palumbo-Liu to discuss the politics of Stanford University and its infamous alum, Peter Thiel. We then get writer Indrajit Samarajiva's…
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Special: Howard Zinn's 1969 Speech Against the Vietnam War
On October 15th, 1969, over 100,000 people gathered on Boston Common for the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. It was a country-wide protest in which two…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Left Bloc w/ James Schneider
Grace is joined by James Schneider, former Head of Strategic Communications for Jeremy Corbyn and the co-founder of Momentum, to talk about his book Our Bloc…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: US Empire in Withdrawal? w/ Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, two of the left's most brilliant critics of US empire, sit down with Jacobin Show's Ariella Thornhill to discuss their new book…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company
Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Nuclear Options w/ Leigh Phillips
Doug interviews Leigh Phillips on why nuclear power has to be part of any serious decarbonization program. Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses Putin’s invasion of…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Economic Weirdness w/ Robert Brenner
Suzi talks to economic historian Robert Brenner to get his understanding of this strange economic moment. What makes it strange? Inflation has dampened…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Dina Khoury on the US Destruction of Iraq (Part 2)
Dina Khoury joins Long Reads for the second in a two-part conversation about Iraq since the US occupation. Dina is a historian of the Middle East, and her…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram
Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The Logic of Capital w/ Deepankar Basu
Cale Brooks and Jen Pan discuss what is in the Inflation Reduction Act, the dregs of Biden’s Build Back Better plan that corporate Democrats felt they could…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The Folly of Green Capitalism w/ Adrienne Buller
This week, Grace speaks to Adrienne Buller, author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. They discuss what "green capitalism" actually…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Ruling-Class 'Chums' w/ Simon Kuper
Doug speaks with Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. Then, an…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Omni Consumer Products
Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the source of the…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Tory Chaos w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge
This week, Grace speaks to Phil Burton-Cartledge, author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain, about the current leadership…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Brandon, Can You Spare a Dime? w/ Matt Huber
This week on The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks discuss America's pitiful "industrial policy," Paul Prescod discusses the upcoming teamsters contract…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Tornado, Earthquake, or Godzilla? w/ Justin Decloux
In 1984, Godzilla rose from Tokyo Bay for the first time in nine years for THE RETURN OF GODZILLA. In 1985, an American distributor dramatically recut the…