Shows / Jacobin Radio
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 RadioMichael and Us: The Show About Nothing
THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) is widely remembered as a prescient film that anticipates the rise of social media and reality TV. But how accurate was its forecast…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law w/ Aziz Rana, Amna Akbar, & Marbre Stahly-Butts
A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Why Blue Cities Keep Failing the Homeless w/ Clayton Aldern
Jen Pan speaks with Ben Burgis about why the left should continue focusing on concrete organizing and policy and not the culture wars. She also speaks with…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The Radicalism of Hope w/ Mikaela Loach
This week, Grace talks to brilliant young climate campaigner Mikaela Loach about her work trying to shut down oil production in the North Sea, taking the UK…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Monkees were a prefabricated pop band who didn't play their own instruments and didn't get much respect. But in 1968, they teamed with director Bob…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Impending Debt Crisis w/ David Adler
Doug speaks with David Adler of the Progressive International on an impending debt crisis, with an emphasis on the role of the IMF. Plus: Sudip Bhattacharya on…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol
Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: War and Inter-Imperialism w/ Barnaby Raine
This week, Grace is joined by Barnaby Raine, co-author of a recent essay for Salvage magazine analyzing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through the lens of rising…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: How We Broke the Supply Chain w/ David Dayen
Jen Pan speaks with Matt Bruenig on the terrible influence of corporate think tanks on our politics and David Dayen about how decades of pro-corporate policies…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Fatal Shore
Australian land and British institutions mix uncomfortably in Peter Weir's PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975). We speculate from our Canadian vantage points why…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: A New Economic Bill of Rights?
Suzi talks to Alan Minsky and Harvey Kaye about the 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights, which they see as both a campaign platform and governing program to…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Lessons From Assata w/ Donna Murch
Doug interviews Donna Murch, author of Assata Taught Me, on Black radical politics from the Panthers to the Movement for Black Lives. Plus: Kyle Shybunko…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Gilbert Achcar on the Second Wave of Arab Uprisings
Gilbert Achcar joins Long Reads for a conversation about the second wave of Arab uprisings—and the possibility of a third. Gilbert is professor of development…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Bonds of Inequality w/ Destin Jenkins
Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, which makes a powerful argument about how the ubiquitous and in…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The Calamity of Clintonism
Jen Pan discusses why “cannabis equity” programs, which were designed to provide opportunities for victims of America’s decades-long drug war, have been a…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Against Ecofascism w/ Sam Moore
This week, Grace talks to Sam Moore, co-author with Alex Roberts of The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right. Sam and Alex host their own…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: What's Left?
The 1969 documentary WHAT'S LEFT? captures the Canadian left (and more specifically, Canada's New Democratic Party) being pulled in two directions: by an…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Population of Our Prisons w/ Wanda Bertram
Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative about the demographics of the million people in state prisons and the fight around cash bail in…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Police w/ Mariame Kaba and Geo Maher
Mariame Kaba and Geo Maher discuss police, the politics of policing, abolition, reform—and more. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The Downfall of Defund w/ Cedric Johnson
Jen Pan takes a look at the politics of the pentagon budget and Daniel Zamora discusses how American-style identity politics somehow found a way of suffusing…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Who Benefited from Britain's Empire? w/ Kojo Koram
Grace talks to Kojo Koram, who teaches in the School of Law at Birkbeck College and is the author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Russia’s War on Ukraine
Jacobin Radio features the recent UCLA colloquium, “The Political Economy of Russia’s War in Ukraine,” organized and moderated by the Center for Social Theory…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Tao of Jack Ryan
Luke and Will delve into the world of right-wing legend Tom Clancy and his signature character Jack Ryan with the blockbuster film adaptation of THE HUNT FOR…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Jan Toporowski on Michal Kalecki and the Politics of Full Employment
Jan Toporowski joins Long Reads for a discussion about Polish economist Michal Kalecki. Kalecki is best known for his celebrated essay on full employment…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Worker Victory on Staten Island w/ John Logan
Suzi talks to John Logan, labor historian and expert on the anti-union industry, about the historic victory for Amazon workers on Staten Island, who voted…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber
Rupert Russell and Isabella Weber discuss Russell's book Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World and also the current politics of…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Labor in Limbo?
Jen Pan sits down with Jacobin columnist Ross Barkan to discuss his latest article, “Working-Class Politics Without the Working Class,” which takes a critical…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Akira, the Wrath of God
Luke and Will discuss AKIRA (1988), the groundbreaking anime classic. We hash over the film's vision of a future-dystopia, finding elements both unique to 1988…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Yemen War
Doug interviews Annelle Sheline, author of a new Quincy Institute policy brief about the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia's brutal war. Doug also…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Imperialism and the Energy Crisis w/ David Wearing
Grace chats to David Wearing, post-doctoral researcher at SOAS and author of AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain. They discuss Boris Johnson’s…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Vaccine Apartheid Endures w/ Achal Prabhala
Astra interviews Achal Prabhala on the lethal persistence of global vaccine apartheid. Moderna is selfishly refusing to share or even sell (license) its mRNA…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Debate! On Ukraine & Ideology w/ Slavoj Žižek
Eric Levitz and Branko Marcetic debate how the left in the US should understand and respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Slavoj Žižek and Vivek Chibber…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Anton Jäger on Belgium, the World's Most Successful Failed State?
Anton Jäger joins Long Reads for a discussion about modern Belgium and its recent history. The country's image as a harmonious center of European integration…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The War on the Poor w/ Alfie Stirling
This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, dissect the UK Chancellor’s spring statement. It looks set to contain…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Hunters in the Snow
The great Homer Simpson once said, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." In that spirit, we watched Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece SOLARIS…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: How Democrats Lost Rural America w/ Anthony Flaccavento
Anthony Flaccavento, Virginia-based farmer, author, and co-founder of the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative, joins the Jacobin Show to discuss rural America—and…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung
The second of our two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political and economic history. This episode covers the 2008 financial crisis…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Dispatch From Russia
Suzi talks to Russian Marxist sociologist, activist, and author Boris Kagarlitsky to get his perspective of Putin’s war from inside Russia. How does he…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung
Part one of a two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008: why capitalism took off in…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Leaving Occupy Anarchism in the Past w/ Ben Fong & Christie Offenbacher
To start off this week’s Jacobin Show, Jen Pan looks at the discourse around "economic anxiety" as an explanation for voters' turn to Donald Trump and other…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The Cost of Living Crisis w/ Gary Stevenson
New show alert! This week, A World to Win is expanding and launching a new format for the podcast. In addition to our regular long-form interviews, every other…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Contract With America
She's a Democrat. He's a Republican. They're speechwriters on warring campaigns... But can they fall in love??? That's the premise of the Michael Keaton/Geena…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: War Motives and Anti-War Resistance
Suzi talks to historian-activist Simon Pirani about the political and economic motives for the Kremlin's war, as well as the ominous signs of Russia's conduct…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Monopoly Medicine & the Anti-Dollar Axis
Doug speaks with Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket. Plus: Zongyuan Zoe Liu…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Lea Ypi on the Enigmas of Modern Albania
Lea Ypi joins Long Reads for a discussion about Albanian history. Lea is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics and the author of…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Overcoming Working-Class Alienation w/ Krystal Ball
Krystal Ball joins The Jacobin Show for a discussion about the alienation and de-politicization affecting the working class, and how to break out of it. They…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: War w/ Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder
Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder on the war, its origins, how it’s being experienced by Ukrainians, Russians, Europeans, and Americans—and also its geopolitical…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Housing and Class Struggle w/ Susanne Soederberg
This week Grace talks to Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, about her book Urban…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Sympathy for the Riddler
Some Batman movies have been called fascist, but THE BATMAN (2022) breaks new ground for the franchise by being lib. We wouldn't be a left-wing culture podcast…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Perverse Logic of War in Eastern Europe
Suzi talks to Dutch Marxist anthropologist Don Kalb, editor of Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, about the state of Putin’s war against…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Seeking Peace in Ukraine w/ Anatol Lieven
Doug interviews Anatol Lieven on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then, a conversation with Alyssa Giachino and Derek Seidman, among the authors of this report…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives w/ Adolph Reed Jr.
Ariella Thornhill sits down with Adolph Reed, Jr. for a special interview on his new book, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives. Branko Marcetic discusses…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Inequality Explosion w/ Max Lawson
This week, Grace talks to Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam, about their new report Inequality Kills, which you can read here…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Lords of Easy Money
Doug interviews Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money, on the damage done by over a decade of hyper-easy monetary policy from the Fed. Then…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Russia Invades w/ Tony Wood
Tony Wood returns to The Dig to discuss Russia’s invasion, what it reflects about Russian politics and geopolitics today and historically, and how the Left…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Shlock Rock
Eldon Hoke—better known to the world as "El Duce"—was one of the most notorious of the so-called "shock rockers" who frightened moralists during the George…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Ukraine and the Anti-War Resistance
Suzi talks to Bohdan Krawchenko and Mick Cox on Russia's catastrophic war on Ukraine, the resistance, and global consequences it has sparked. Bohdan Krawchenko…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. Listen to Kim's Dig…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: David Edgerton on the Myths of Modern Britain
David Edgerton joins Long Reads for a discussion about the making of the modern British nation. David is a professor at King’s College London, where his work…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Permanent Inflation? w/ Ramaa Vasudevan
Economist Ramaa Vasudevan explains the causes and consequences of inflation from a socialist perspective. Natalie Shure looks at the growing discontent with…