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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 RadioBehind the News: Ottawa, the NFL, and Amazon
Doug speaks with Toronto-based activist and organizer John Clarke on the politics and personnel behind the Ottawa convoy. Plus: Dave Zirin on racism in the NFL…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: I Only Read It for the Articles
In another Superdelegate-selected episode, we discuss THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996), the hagiographic biopic of the Hustler Magazine publisher and First…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Canada’s Alt-Right Rage
Suzi talks to Canadian Labor historian Bryan Palmer about the so-called "Freedom Convoy" of truckers that held Ottawa hostage for three weeks, clogging the…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Feminist International w/ Verónica Gago
Feminist political theorist and organizer Verónica Gago on Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labor and financial…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Prison and Public Health
Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison sickens and kills people. Then Terry Kupers, from a 2013 interview, on the effects…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Coronavirus Criminals w/ John Nichols
Ariella Thornhill speaks with John Nichols about his new book, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers. Nichols argues that the massive number of deaths…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Rural America and the Democratic Party
Suzi talks to Nick Bowlin about his important new piece, "Joke’s on Them: The Democratic Party Meets Rural America" in The Drift. Nick looks at America’s rural…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Feminism Against Fascism w/ Laurie Penny
Grace speaks with Laurie Penny about their new book, Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback. They discuss the roots of the resurgence of…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Rorschach Tests
What happens when the UK's Minister for International Development accidentally calls an inevitable war "unforeseeable"? We discuss Armando Iannucci's beloved…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: John Foot on Italy's Two Republics From Anti-Fascism to Anti-Politics
John Foot joins Long Reads for a discussion about Italy from the era of partisan resistance to the current predicament of "post-democracy"—and a resurgent…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Inflamed w/ Raj Patel and Rupa Marya
Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. Support…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: When Does Culture Matter? w/ Vivek Chibber
Professor Vivek Chibber discusses his new book, The Class Matrix, and the role that culture plays (and doesn’t play) in keeping workers from overturning an…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: COVID and the Crisis in Education
Suzi talks to Arlene Inouye, UTLA Secretary and Bargaining Chair about the system-wide pressures facing teachers, support staff, students, and their families…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Cries and Whispers
We discuss one of the least sentimental films about death and family, Ingmar Bergman's CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972), and provide a possible political reading of…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Financial Empire w/ Daniela Gabor & Ndongo Samba Sylla
Olúfẹmi Táíwò guest hosts an interview with Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Why Isn't "Ecosocialism" Winning Workers? w/ Leigh Phillips
Jacobin contributor Leigh Phillips discusses how an NGO-dominated environmental movement ended up alienating unions, what constitutes a "just transition," and…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Elite Capture w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
This week, Grace talks to Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò about his two new books, Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Explaining the US-Russia Saber-Rattling
Suzi talks to professor Michael Cox about what is behind Putin’s bluster at the Ukrainian border and the hawkish, confrontational response from the US, UK, and…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Oliver Gloag on Jean-Paul Sartre and the Crimes of Empire
Oliver Gloag returns to Long Reads for a conversation about Jean-Paul Sartre and the philosopher's stance against colonialism. Oliver is a professor of French…
Jacobin RadioSpecial: Nina Turner Is Ready to Keep Fighting
Jacobin’s Micah Uetricht sat down with Nina Turner to discuss the launch of her candidacy for Congress in Ohio’s 11th District. Turner speaks about the need to…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko. Read Volodymyr's…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Why Everything Is Politics Now w/ Anton Jäger
Jacobin contributor Anton Jäger explains the rise of "hyper-politics" and why everything these days is "political" but collective struggle remains elusive…
Jacobin RadioSports Show: Confronting Racism & Police Brutality w/ Etan Thomas
This week on the Jacobin Sports Show, a very special episode with former NBA player and poet/writer/activist Etan Thomas. Etan's latest book, Police Brutality…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Guy's Winnipeg
The great Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was assigned to make a documentary about his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He made MY WINNIPEG (2007), a hilarious…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Tension on the Russia-Ukraine Border
Bohdan Krawchenko, author of works on Ukrainian politics and history, talks to Suzi from the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan about the potential…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman
Epidemiologist Justin Feldman makes a comprehensive and devastating critique of Biden's pandemic response. Read Justin's essay…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Why the Left Can't Win Without West Virginia w/ Ted Boettner
Researcher Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute outlines West Virginia’s political shift from blue to red through the history of coal mining and…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Speculative Communities w/ Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Grace talks to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, associate professor of sociology at UCL, about his book Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Cédric Durand on the Twilight of Neoliberalism
Cédric Durand joins Long Reads for a conversation about global capitalism and the pandemic. Cédric is a French economist who teaches at the University of…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Next Shift w/ Gabriel Winant
Historian Gabriel Winant discusses The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. It's a fascinating study of the…
Jacobin RadioWhy Are Democrats Such Losers? w/ Amber Frost & Danny Bessner
Chapo Trap House’s Amber A’Lee Frost and Jacobin contributor Danny Bessner investigate whether the Democrats are losing on purpose. Ross Barkan discusses New…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: 300th Episode Spectacular
To mark a very special milestone, we decided to reach back to early in the podcast's history and revisit MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA (2004). Mimicking Moore's…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Taking Back the Streets
Suzi talks to Warren Montag about the danger of the organized and armed far right. He argues in "The Necessity of Taking Back the Streets" in the journal…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Interregnum w/ Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, Wendy Brown
Everyone feels bad right now because conditions are awful and the outlook is bleak. What is going on, and where might things be headed? How might we become…
Jacobin RadioPrimer: Thinking Outside the Big Box
This week, we speak with Alex Han, executive editor of Organizing Upgrade about a recent conversation he moderated between an Amazon activist named Howard and…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Democratic Losership Council
In 1985, a group of plucky renegades banded together to take on the political culture in the Democratic Party—demolishing Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition"…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Two Interviews on Chile
Doug speaks with Antonia Mardones Marshall on the recent presidential election and its winner, Gabriel Boric. Plus: Antonia Atria, in an interview from October…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Boric's Landslide Victory in Chile
Suzi talks to Pablo Abufom in Chile about Gabriel Boric’s impressive landslide victory in the second round of Chile’s Presidential election held December 19…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The Rise of the Brahmin Left w/ Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu, professor at University of California, Irvine, joins The Jacobin Show to discuss the rise of elite liberalism and the professional class. The…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Private Money with Stefan Eich
Episode two of our two-part series on cryptocurrency: political theorist Stefan Eich on how crypto fits into Hayek's old neoliberal dream of private money and…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Everything Is Awesome
For months we've been immersing ourselves in such Intellectual Property soups as Ready Player One, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and The Simpsons in Plusaversary…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: Inflation, Labor Upsurge, and Neoliberalism's Discontents w/ Richard Wolff
Economist Richard Wolff joins Weekends to explain why Congressional partisan battles are like professional wrestling and why global capitalism continues to…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Michael Vann on Indonesia's Killing Fields (Part 2)
Michael Vann joins Long Reads for a conversation about Indonesia’s turbulent past and present. Michael is a professor of history at Sacramento State…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Cryptocurrency w/ Edward Ongweso Jr & Jacob Silverman
Edward Ongweso Jr. and Jacob Silverman on cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: A Year in Strikes (and Scabs) w/ Jane McAlevey
Labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey discusses the strike wave, the Great Resignation, and the union-busting efforts of the past year and looks at where…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: Our Collective Descent Into Ideology w/ Liza Featherstone
Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone joins Weekends to discuss how deindustrialization and stagnant wages have affected working-class men, and how right-wing…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Kanehsatake Resistance
For 78 days in 1990, a group of Mohawk protestors withstood a siege from the Canadian armed forces. The root of the conflict? A town in Quebec sought to take…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Victory at Starbucks, Struggle at Kellogg's
Suzi talks with John Logan about the unionization victory at Starbucks in Buffalo, and the continuing Kellogg Co. strike: workers rejected the agreement and…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Michael Vann on Indonesia's Killing Fields (Part 1)
Michael Vann joins Long Reads for a special, two-part conversation about Indonesia’s turbulent past and present. Michael is a professor of history at…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The Evolution of Racial Justice Under Neoliberalism w/ Touré Reed & Adolph Reed
Touré Reed and Adolph Reed discuss their new article in Socialist Register, how the project of racial justice became unmoored from political economy in the…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: The Class Path to Racial Liberation w/ Adaner Usmani
Adaner Usmani joins Weekends to explain why fighting racial inequality today depends on forging a working-class coalition, and why race-based solutions to…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Promiscuous Dope Fiends
With the Beatles once again in the zeitgeist, we decided to revisit the jukebox musical ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007), which positioned the lads' music as a…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Limits of Trials & Elections in Chile and Honduras
Doug speaks with Matt Kierkegard and David Adler of the Progressive International on the Honduran and Chilean elections. Plus: an interview with Sarah…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Brazil w/ Sabrina Fernandes & Andre Pagliarini
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The Colonial Roots of the Climate Crisis w/ Asad Rehman
This week on A World to Win, Adele Walton, filling in for Grace Blakeley, speaks with Asad Rehman, director of War on Want and organizer for climate, racial…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: The Erosion of American Democracy w/ Chris Maisano
Jacobin and Catalyst contributor Chris Maisano joins The Jacobin Show for a discussion about democracy in the U.S. Then, in a special, double "Labor Paul"…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Team Avengers, World Police
Before there was Elon Musk, there was Tony Stark. We travelled back to 2008 to look at IRON MAN, the first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and were…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The Fight for Debt Justice w/ Heidi Chow
This week, Adele Walton, filling in for Grace Blakeley, speaks with Heidi Chow, executive director at Jubilee Debt Campaign, which works to end poverty…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: How Capitalism Created the Drug Crisis w/ Meagan Day
Over the past year, more than 100,000 people have died from drug overdoses in the US. Jacobin editor Meagan Day joins us to discuss the roots of the opioid…