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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 Radio
Michael and Us: Both Sides Now w/ Alex Shephard
America is divided, capitalism is to blame, and the only solution is... more capitalism. That's the thesis of STARS AND STRIFE (2020), another centrist…
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Jacobin Show: Why Liberals Make Everything About Race w/ Touré Reed
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: Love Kills Capitalism w/ Kristen Ghodsee
This week, we have a special International Women’s Day episode of A World to Win, in which Grace talks to Kristen Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East…
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Weekends: Climate Class War, Personal Responsibility, and Cuomo's Scandals w/ Ross Barkan
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: Jim Wolfreys on Vichy France's Dark Legacy
Long Reads looks in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with Jacobin’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel…
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The Dig: Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
We're taking a week off to play catch up and posting an early Dig episode from the archives that people keep returning to time and again: Barbara and Karen…
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Jacobin Show: How Working Women Beat the Boss w/ Karen Nussbaum
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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Michael and Us: Tracy Flick for President
We finally watch one of our most requested movies: the political parable ELECTION (1999), which presents a vision of American politics circa 1999 as…
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Behind the News: Cultural Devolution of the Right & DSA's Public Power Campaign
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 with…
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Weekends: The Biden Doctrine on Foreign Policy w/ Nicole Aschoff, the PRO Act, and Cult of the Elites
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 Vast Majority: Mike Davis's Forecast
The interviewer becomes the interviewee this week, as Micah Uetricht talks with Jacobin staff writers Meagan Day and Alex Press about his recent piece in the…
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Michael and Us: The Wreck of the Straight Talk Express
We plunge once again into the filmography of Alexandra Pelosi, who in addition to being Nancy's daughter is a prolific maker of not-very-good political…
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The Dig: Work Won't Love You Back with Sarah Jaffe
Dan interviews Sarah Jaffe on her book Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. Support this podcast on…
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A World to Win: An interview w/ Sarah Jaffe
This week, Grace talks to Sarah Jaffe, journalist and author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone…
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Jacobin Show: Why Americans Hate the Government w/ Matt Bruenig
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: Bolsonaro's Brazil & Alabama Amazon Workers
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 with…
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Weekends: Texas Power Outage Market Failure, Domestic Terrorism Commission, and the Cuomo COVID Cover-up
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: Peter Hudis on Frantz Fanon and the Revolution Against Racism
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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Michael and Us: Post-Partisan Struggle Session
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Just when we thought we'd found the bottom of the barrel, we…
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Jacobin Show: Life in the Labor Movement w/ Richard Hooker
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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The Dig: Conservative Intelligentsia with Sam Adler-Bell & Matt Sitman
Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia. Listen to Know Your Enemy, their really…
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The Vast Majority: US Socialists Can Learn from the UK Labour Party's Early History
Bad things happen when workers don't have a party of their own, as workers in the United States do not. How do we solve the problem of being stuck with the…
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A World to Win: Ugandan Politics and Corruption w/ Moses Khisa
In this week’s episode, Grace talks to Moses Khisa, Assistant Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University…
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Weekends: Biden's Corporate Unity, Taylor Guitar Co-Op, and Indian Farmers' Protest w/ Vijay Prashad
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 Vast Majority: Remembering Working-Class Hero Karen Lewis
Former Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis died this week at the age of 67. In remembrance of one of the most important left labor leaders in recent…
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Behind the News: Noreena Hertz and Rossana Rodríguez
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 with…
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Jacobin Show: Pain and Politics in Rural America w/ Jennifer Silva
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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Michael and Us: Tony Benn, Against the Tide
For decades the most visible socialist in Britain, the late Labour Party MP Tony Benn is the rare instance of a left-wing politician who became even more…
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A World to Win: The War on Disabled People w/ Ellen Clifford
In this episode, Grace talks to Ellen Clifford, author of The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe (ZED Books…
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The Dig: Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield
Dan interviews Jeanne Morefield on her book Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection and how the disavowed wars have…
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Sports Show: The Not-So-Super Super Bowl w/ Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
In the latest episode of The Jacobin Sports Show, Matthew and Jonah talk with Lyndsey D'Arcangelo about the Big Game that was anything but, Sarah Thomas and…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Meredith Whittaker and Ilya Budraitskis
In this episode, Suzi talks to Meredith Whittaker, who worked at Google for a decade and now directs NYU's Artificial Intelligence Institute, where she focuses…
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Weekends: Black Capitalism, Broken Media, and Lessons from Reconstruction w/ Eric Foner
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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Behind the News: Katya Kazbek and Marianela D'Aprile
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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Long Reads: Gavin Walker on Socialist Politics and Theory in Japan
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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Sports Show: What the Hell is Wrong with Liverpool FC? w/ Avantika Goswami
We're continuing a limited run of the new Jacobin Sports Show. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe! You can find links to Apple, Spotify, and…
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Michael and Us: A Fistful of Quarters
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. The story of two men competing for the world Donkey Kong…
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The Dig: Digital Party with Paolo Gerbaudo
Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital…
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A World to Win: Activists Tried as Terrorists w/ Ben Smoke of the Stansted 15
This week, Grace talks to Ben Smoke, one of the members of the Stansted 15: a group of activists who stopped a mass deportation flight from taking off from…
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The Vast Majority: Kshama Sawant Is Under Attack
In 2013, several years before Bernie Sanders changed the American political landscape with his 2016 presidential run, socialist Kshama Sawant ran for Seattle…
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Weekends: Jeremy Corbyn Interview, GameStop Stock Explained, & End the Filibuster
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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Behind the News: Sarah Buehler on Biden's climate policy, Chris Maisano on Leo Panitch
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks with Sarah Buehler, a…
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Michael and Us: Dustbin of History
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the War on Terror…
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Jacobin Show: The Professional-Managerial Class w/ Catherine Liu
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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Sports Show: The Legacy of Hank Aaron w/ Robert Greene II
Today, we're continuing our limited run of the new Jacobin Sports Show. If you'd like to keep listening, please subscribe! You can find links to Apple…
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The Vast Majority: The Marxism of Leo Panitch
All of us at Jacobin are still grieving the death of longtime Marxist scholar Leo Panitch, a former guest of this podcast who died last month at the age of 75…
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The Dig: Pakistan Hyperreality with Fatima Bhutto
Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways. Support this podcast…
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A World to Win: No Holding Back w/ Ian Lavery and Laura Smith
In this week’s episode of A World to Win, Grace talks to Ian Lavery MP, former Chair of the Labour Party, and Laura Smith, former MP for Crewe and Nantwitch…
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Weekends: Teamsters Strike Victory, FBI Spy Planes, and Richard Wolff on Biden Economics
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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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: John Logan and Veena Dubal
In this episode: John Logan on organizing at Amazon in Alabama and Veena Dubal on anti-worker Proposition 22 going national and global. Suzi talks to John…
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Long Reads: Kieran Durkin on Erich Fromm, Marxist Humanism, and the Revolution of Hope
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: Remembering Leo Panitch w/ Sam Gindin and Max Shanly
This week, in a special episode of A World to Win, we remember the brilliant Marxist thinker, writer and public intellectual Leo Panitch. Grace talks to Max…
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Jacobin Show: Jane McAlevey on Organizing the Working Class Under a Biden Presidency
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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Introducing... the Jacobin Sports Show!
For a limited time, the Jacobin Radio feed presents a new podcast called the Jacobin Sports Show! Co-hosts Matthew Miranda and Jonah Birch discuss the most…
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Behind the News: Jodi Dean and Quinn Slobodian
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug speaks with Jodi Dean on Trump…
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Michael and Us: Everything's Just Great
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. After the upheaval of 1968, Jean-Luc Godard said goodbye to…
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The Dig: Resource Radicals with Thea Riofrancos
Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos on how Ecuador's Pink Tide government was constrained by an unequal world system and on the conflict over mining that erupted…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: John Nichols and Eric Alterman
Suzi speaks with John Nichols on Trump, the GOP & Impeachment and Eric Alterman on the fundamentals that define our current media ecosystem. John Nichols…
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Weekends: Slavoj Žižek on Biden, Race, and What It Will Take to Stop the Pandemic
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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Jacobin Show: George W. Bush Amnesia w/ Felix Biederman
Introducing... The Jacobin Show! Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering…