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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 RadioPrimer: Black Friday
On Black Friday, people in some twenty countries will target Amazon under the banner of “Make Amazon Pay.” We speak with Casper Gelderblom, the Make Amazon Pay…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Inside the New Wave of Labor Militancy
Crystal Hopkins just stepped down as President of IATSE Local 871 on the eve of the ratification vote citing personal obligations and frustration over the…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 2
The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali, author of the new book The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan, discusses how four decades of US intervention in Afghanistan destabilized the country, led…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Outsider
With its story of an idealistic political outsider who arrives in Washington to shake things up, Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) helped…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: COP26 Debrief & Steve Bannon's War on the State
Doug talks with Christina Gerhardt on the COP26 climate summit. Plus, an interview with Mike Lofgren on the dangers of Steve Bannon's war on the administrative…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 1
Part one of Dan's two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The 'Big Quit' & Chilean Election News
Chloe Watlington talked to four women about their workplace experiences and their decision to quit in her article in LA Taco called "The Big Quit of 2021 – as…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: A History of Everything w/ David Wengrow
This week, Grace speaks to David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the author of a…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: America Loves a Moral Panic w/ Roger Lancaster
Roger Lancaster, author of the book Sex Panic, joins the Jacobin Show to discuss the McMartin daycare trial, the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s, and…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Dialectic of Cool Britannia
THE QUEEN (2006) brings together a mismatched-buddy duo — one a symbol of stiff-upper-lipped British tradition (Liz Windsor), the other a radical left-wing…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: What's Left of Build Back Better w/ David Sirota
David Sirota joins Weekends to discuss drastic cuts to the Build Back Better Act and why Democrats sabotaged their own bill. He talks about how Democrats’…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: October 1917
On the 104th anniversary of the Russian revolution, Suzi Weissman switches seats with Robert Brenner: She is the guest and he does the interviewing. The…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Fabien Escalona on French Socialism from Mitterrand to Meltdown
Fabien Escalona, journalist at the French publication Mediapart, joins Long Reads for a discussion about the trajectory of socialism in France over recent…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: The Production of Uselessness w/ Neil Vallelly
On this week’s podcast Grace speaks to Neil Vallelly, author of Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness. They discuss the role of…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow
Astra Taylor interviews archaeologist David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Debate on 'Degrowth'
Doug speaks with Sheryll Cashin, author of White Space, Black Hood, about the origins, mechanisms, and effects of residential segregation, mostly by race but…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Nuance Mongering
FALLING DOWN (1993) features Michael Douglas as an ordinary man who's mad as hell, turning into a Travis Bickle for the Rush Limbaugh era. It's Hollywood's…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: A Future for the Left w/ Nina Turner
Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner discusses the recent elections, Democrats’ disconnect from working people, and how progressives can fight the corporatist…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: What Do Working-Class Voters Want? w/ Jared Abbott
Jared Abbott, a researcher with the newly launched Center for Working-Class Politics, joins us to discuss a groundbreaking new Jacobin/YouGov study on…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Striketober
Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: All the News That’s Fit to Click w/ Caitlin Petre
Caitlin Petre, media sociologist at Rutgers University, has just published All the News That’s Fit to Click, a critical look at how performance analytics are…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assembly Member for District 36, discusses why he and New York cab drivers are undertaking a hunger strike, and how the city’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Reactionary History of the Supreme Court w/ Samuel Moyn
Doug speaks to Samuel Moyn, co-author of this article, on the reactionary history of the Supreme Court and how to democratize it. Plus: Deepak Bhargava, one of…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Lost Futures
We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing state of…
Jacobin RadioPrimer: The Amazonification of Fiction?
This week, we speak with Mark McGurl, professor of literature at Stanford and the author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon. You can listen…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Strike! with Jane McAlevey
A Striketober-relevant episode from The Dig archives. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter by email
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Slavoj Žižek on the Legacy of the Russian Revolution
Slavoj Žižek discusses World War I and the other forces that shaped the Russian Revolution, how we should understand the Red Terror, the Russian Civil War, and…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Lebanon Crisis & COVID Conspiracies
Doug speaks with Mona Fawaz on the dire economic and political crises in Lebanon. Plus: Mark Dery, author of this article, on conspiracy theories, with special…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine w/ Andrew Cockburn
Journalist Andrew Cockburn, author of the new book The Spoils of War, explains why the United States’ astronomical Pentagon budget hasn’t led to better…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Vanessa Chishti on Kashmir's History of Repression and Resistance
Vanessa Chishti joins Long Reads for a discussion about Kashmir's past and present. Vanessa is professor of history at the O.P. Jindal Global University in…
Jacobin RadioPrimer: Microworking for the Weekend
We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism, a new book from Verso Books…
Jacobin RadioA World to Win: Net Zero Is Not Enough w/ Holly Jean Buck
Grace speaks to Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo about her new book Ending Fossil Fules: Why…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Behind the Republican Party Crack-up w/ Paul Heideman
Paul Heideman debunks the myth that the Republicans are now a working-class party and explores how the structural weakness of the American party system and…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: The Right to Sex with Amia Srinivasan
What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Slow Cancellation of the Future
At long last, we are finally tackling something related to The Sopranos. We discuss the many things wrong (and some things right) with the big-screen prequel…
Jacobin RadioWeekends: How to Debate the Right and Win w/ Ben Burgis
Coming off of their triumphant debate victories against Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk respectively, we're (re)joined by Ana Kasparian and friend of the show Ben…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Striketober
Suzi talked to Crystal Hopkins, President of IATSE Local 871, just hours before a tentative agreement was reached late Saturday afternoon — ahead of the…
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The Dig: The Big Scary 'S' Word w/ Yael Bridge
A very short ep on a great new documentary about the history and present of American socialism: The Big Scary S-Word. It’s by Yael Bridge, and it's the perfect…
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A World to Win: Work Without the Worker w/ Phil Jones
This week, Grace speaks to Phil Jones, researcher at Autonomy and author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism. They discuss…
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The Dig: Afghanistan with Tariq Ali
Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup…
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Weekends: What's Wrong with an "Entitlement Society"? w/ Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig discusses Joe Manchin's remarks about the US becoming an "entitlement society" and explains why so-called entitlement societies like the Nordic…
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Behind the News: Milton Friedman's War on Public Education
Doug speaks with Nancy MacLean, author of this paper, on how Milton Friedman’s war on public education fit nicely with Southern massive resistance to…
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Michael and Us: Hollywood Dreamscape
We have discussed many bad films on this podcast, but now we finally turn our attention to The Worst Movie Ever Made™. We analyze how Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM…
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Long Reads: Sean Larson on Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Weimar Germany
Sean Larson, historian of the German Revolution and the Weimar Republic, joins Long Reads for a discussion about party politics and worker struggles during…
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Behind the News: Queerness, Social Reproduction, and Capitalism
Doug speaks with Patrick Wyman, author of this article (and this earlier Substack version) on provincial elites. Plus: Duc Hien Nguyen on queerness, social…
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Jacobin Show: Did the Frankfurt School Ruin the Left? w/ Jeremy Cohan & Ben Serby
Professors Jeremy Cohan and Benjamin Serby discuss the influence of Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School on the New Left, how they continue to shape our…
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A World to Win: No Final Defeat w/ Nina Turner
This week, Grace speaks to Senator Nina Turner, the former Ohio Senator and Democratic Nominee for Ohio Secretary of State who also served as co-chair of…
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Behind the News: Black Men in the Job Market
Doug speaks with Algernon Austin on the plight of black men in the job market (with an excerpt from a 2005 BtN interview with Devah Pager on…
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Michael and Us: Radioactive Dreams
Nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cinema's most enduring symbol of the perils of nuclear proliferation first crawled out of Tokyo Bay…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: A Congressional Standoff & COVID in Los Angeles
Alan Minsky is back for an update on the state of play in passing the Build Back Better Reconciliation and Infrastructure Bills. The progressives are using…
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Weekends: How the US Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War w/ Sam Moyn
Samuel Moyn, author of the new book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, joins Weekends to explain why the US shifted to “humane”…
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Sports Show: A Conspiracy Grows in Brooklyn w/ Haley O'Shaughnessy
Jacobin Radio presents the latest episode from our sister podcast, the Jacobin Sports Show! This week, podcast superstar Haley O'Shaughnessy joins hosts…
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The Dig: Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest…
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Jacobin Show: The Left Case Against the 1619 Project w/ James Oakes
Historian James Oakes explains how the 1619 Project misconstrues the relationship between slavery and capitalism and what the left can learn from the mass…
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A World to Win: Climate, Capital, and the State w/ Geoff Mann
This week, Grace Blakeley speaks to Geoff Mann, Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University and author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism…
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Weekends: Big Pharma Is Killing Us w/ Dean Baker
Dean Baker, economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, joins us to explain what we should do with Big Pharma (hint: get rid of them). We also…
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Michael and Us: 2006 Forever!
The mockumentary DEATH OF A PRESIDENT (2006) imagined what would happen if then-president George W. Bush was assassinated. Though briefly very controversial…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street
Alan Minsky discusses the Biden infrastructure plan, one that he calls an historic bill for an historic moment. As Director of PDA, Alan is involved in the…
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The Dig: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor
It's Occupy Wall Street's tenth anniversary. Dan interviews Astra Taylor. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our new weekly newsletter. Listen to…