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 Radio
Weekends: How Israel Is Carrying Out Apartheid w/ Amira Hass
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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The Dig: Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley
Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Please support this podcast at…
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Long Reads: Paul Buhle on C.L.R. James and the Black Jacobins of Haiti
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers…
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A World to Win: Where Labour Won w/ Matthew Brown and Paul Dennett
After a week that saw Keir Starmer’s Labour tank in the local elections, Grace speaks to two brilliant local leaders who managed to defy the downturn. Matthew…
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Michael and Us: Cleggmania Revisited
In the wake of the Labour Party's disastrous performance in the 2021 U.K. local elections, we're taking a look back at a key moment in recent British history…
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Jacobin Show: Public Education Post-Pandemic w/ Megan Erickson, Rebecca Garelli and Jay O'Neal
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and…
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A World to Win: Amazonification w/ Alex Press
Grace talks to Alex Press, staff writer at Jacobin, about Amazon’s ruthless exploitation of its workforce, its deeply embedded culture of union busting, and…
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Weekends: Colombian Protests, Vaccine Patent Waiver, and the Rotting Ruling Class w/ Doug Henwood
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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The Dig: "Cancel Culture" w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield
What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ…
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Michael and Us: Bringing It All Back Home
The year is 1965. Bob Dylan, tired of being "the voice of a generation," is on the verge of going electric... but he still has a tour of England to do. In D.A…
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Jacobin Show: From Posting to Politics and Runaway Inequality w/ Les Leopold
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and…
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Weekends: May Day w/ Richard Wolff and Meagan Day
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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Michael and Us: A Tasteful Thickness
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. We finally tackle the ultimate movie about '80s Wall Street…
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Long Reads: Thea Riofrancos on Biden, the Green New Deal, and the Climate Movement After COVID-19
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers…
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The Dig: Big Ship Capitalism with Leila Khalili
Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary…
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Behind the News: Donna Murch and Ben Burgis
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug interviews…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: US-China Green Rivalry and a Myanmar Report
Suzi talks to eco-socialist writer-activist Richard Smith about a different sort of rivalry between the US and China: which leading polluter can be greener?…
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Jacobin Show: How Should the Left Think About Crime? w/ Adaner Usmani
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and…
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A World to Win: Border and Rule w/ Harsha Walia
This week, Grace talks to author, writer, and organiser Harsha Walia on her book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist…
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Weekends: Canceling Comedians w/ Ben Burgis, Biden's Cuba Embargo, and Asian Race Czars
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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The Dig: Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz
US empire in the Philippines, Filipino migration, labor organizing in the fields, and the nativist campaign for Asian exclusion. Dan interviews Rick Baldoz on…
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Michael and Us: An Interview w/ Steven Donziger, Literal Prisoner of Chevron
When human rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the oil giant Chevron, the company retaliated by setting out to destroy…
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Michael and Us: Frontier Justice
We travel back to Nixon's America with 1974's DEATH WISH, the franchise-spawning Silent Majority hit in which Charles Bronson transforms from a bleeding-heart…
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A World to Win: Planet on Fire w/ Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton
This week, Grace talks to Mat Lawrence, director of the think tank Common Wealth, and Laurie Layborn Langton, author and researcher, about their new book…
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Jacobin Show: Identity Politics in Our Gilded Age w/ Matt Karp
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and…
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Behind the News: Meagan Day, Micah Uetricht, and Jane McAlevey
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, he speaks with…
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Weekends: Housing Crisis, Global Tax, and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine w/ Leigh Phillips
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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Michael and Us: The Gospel According to Pasolini
A gay communist atheist directing the most reverential film ever made about Jesus Christ? It happened! Pier Paolo Pasolini's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST…
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Long Reads: Lea Ypi on Rosa Luxemburg's Revolutionary Legacy
Long Reads looks in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. The…
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The Dig: Combat Liberalism w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Mindy Isser, & Zachary Hershman
Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion: The Liberal to Ultra-Left…
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Jacobin Show: Sex and the State w/ Kristen Ghodsee
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and…
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A World to Win: Biden's America w/ Doug Henwood
This week, Grace talks to Doug Henwood, Marxist, journalist, host of the Behind the News podcast, and author of many books, including the classic Wall Street…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: John Logan on Bessemer
Suzi talks to labor historian John Logan who assesses the historic unionization drive against Amazon at the new Bessemer Alabama warehouse — and processes the…
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The Vast Majority: Sliding Into (and, Hopefully, Out of) Reaganland
Micah talks with Chapo Trap House's Matt Christman about historian Rick Perlstein's Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980, the politics of the 1970s and…
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Behind the News: Jennifer Berkshire and Helen Yaffe
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Jennifer Berkshire…
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Weekends: Amazon Union Aftermath, Remote Workplace Control, and the Left Post-Bernie w/ Meagan Day
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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Michael and Us: Q Vadis?
Filmed over three years, the new HBO docuseries Q: INTO THE STORM (2021) seeks to find an answer to the question that plagued the Trump years: who is Q, the…
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The Dig: Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government's Red Scare attacks on Black radicals. Read…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Labor Struggle at Amazon
Lauren Kaori Gurley at Vice.com’s Motherboard has covered the unionization drive at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama for more than a year. Voting ended…
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Weekends: Biden Wants to Spend Trillions... Why Are We Still Mad? w/ Seth Ackerman
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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Long Reads: Christy Thornton on Revolutionary Mexico's Plan to Transform the World Economy
Long Reads looks in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor…
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Michael and Us: Guillotine in Piccadilly
With the British monarchy at its lowest ebb of popularity since the week after Diana's death, we consider these two moments within the context of the wretched…
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The Dig: Asian America w/ Andy Liu, Jay Caspian Kang, & Tammy Kim
Dan interviews the hosts of Time to Say Goodbye podcast on Asian American politics and identity. Check out Time to Say Goodbye wherever you get podcasts…
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The Vast Majority: Socialists on City Council in NYC and Chicago
Micah moderated a recent discussion between Chicago Democratic Socialists of America city council members (Alds. Jeanette Taylor, Daniel La Spata, and Byron…
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A World to Win: A Marine History of Capitalism w/ Laleh Khalili
Before the container ship crisis in the Suez Canal, Grace spoke with Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, and…
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Weekends: Matt Christman on Amazon Union, Biden's FDR Comparisons, and Pfizer Profits Over People
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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The Dig: Counterculture to Cyberculture with Fred Turner
How the 60s counterculture went on to make the techno-utopian ideology that suffuses our techno-dystopian reality. Dan interviews Fred Turner on his classic…
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Michael and Us: Print the Legend w/ Aisling McCrea
The forces of liberal democracy (Jimmy Stewart) and rugged frontier self-reliance (John Wayne) come head-to-head in John Ford's masterpiece THE MAN WHO SHOT…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Mike Goldfield & Gabriel Winant
Mike Goldfield, whose recent book is The Southern Key, discusses the unionization drive underway at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer Alabama. Mike’s book…
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Jacobin Show: Socialism and Music w/ Jason Myles
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and…
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Behind the News: The Awfulness of Andrew Cuomo
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks…
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The Dig: Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala
Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to…
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Long Reads: Talat Ahmed on Gandhi and the Politics of Sainthood
Long Reads looks in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor…
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Michael and Us: Canadian Cringe
In 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced one of his biggest scandals yet when a charitable organization to which his family had longstanding (and…
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A World to Win: Public Health Colonialism w/ Eugene Richardson
This week, as the anniversary of the declaration of a pandemic by the WHO approaches, Grace talks to Dr. Eugene Richardson, Assistant Professor of Global…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Matt Karp & Emil Draitser
Matt Karp, Princeton historian and Jacobin contributing editor discusses President Biden’s stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan that was passed by the…
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The Vast Majority: The Intimate Life of Woody Guthrie
Micah spoke to Gustavus Stadler about his new book Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life.
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Weekends: Lula Livre and Biden's American Empire w/ Daniel Bessner
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary…
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The Dig: We Need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams
Why we need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams, General Vice President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Read Alex Press's interview with…
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The Dig: State of the Unions with Alex Press & Jonah Furman
Dan interviews Jacobin's Alex Press and organizer Jonah Furman on the state of the labor movement. Read Alex Press's interview with political scientist Michael…