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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
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Michael and Us: Pretend It's an Insight
Martin Scorsese's new Netflix documentary PRETEND IT'S A CITY (2021) is nothing more or less than a series of jokes and riffs by former writer and current…
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A World to Win: Cutting to the Bone w/ Vijay Prashad
In this week’s episode, Grace Blakeley speaks to Vijay Prashad, head of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of Washington Bullets: A…
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Weekends: Noam Chomsky on the Future of the Left, Trumpism, and Wielding Power
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: Right Riot with Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes
Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today's American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican…
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Jacobin Radio: Marcy Winograd, Medea Benjamin, and Robert Brenner
Marcy Winograd, Medea Benjamin put pressure on Biden’s objectionable picks for national security and foreign policy; Robert Brenner on whither the Republicans…
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Long Reads: David Ost on the Rise and Fall of Poland's Solidarity Movement
Long Reads is a new 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: Snobs and Deplorables
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. In the aftermath of the siege on the Capitol, we looked at a…
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A World to Win: Chaos at the Capitol w/ Bhaskar Sunkara
This week, Grace talks to Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The case for radical politics in an era…
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Weekends: Unceasing Afghan War, Janet Yellen Speaking Fees, and M4A Strategy w/ Natalie Shure
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: The Social Question with Gabriel Winant
Dan interviews historian and essayist Gabriel Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral…
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Michael and Us: Winter Light
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. A lot of us are feeling cold, isolated, and depressed right…
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The Vast Majority: 2020: Would Not Recommend
Micah and producer Sarah Hurd close out the year from hell with a look at the highs and lows of 2020.
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The Dig: Family Values with Melinda Cooper
From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case…
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The Vast Majority: A Socialist Fix for the Decline of American Journalism
Most of what we hear these days about what's wrong (and what's right) with the media comes from liberals. Micah and Meagan talk to leftist media scholar Victor…
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Michael and Us: Joy to the New World Order
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. For our annual holiday episode, we finally did the inevitable…
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Weekends: Eviction Crisis, Techno-Feudal Dystopia, and Medicare for All w/ David Sirota
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: China and the US with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner
A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today's geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global capitalism…
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A World to Win: Crony Capitalism w/ Ana Kasparian
This week, Grace talks to Ana Kasparian, host and executive producer for The Young Turks and now co-host of Jacobin’s Weekends series. We discuss the media…
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Michael and Us: Full Spectrum Dominance
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. The '90s brought a wave of movies about divorced or absentee…
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Behind the News: Rodrigo Nunes and Frances Gill
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug…
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Weekends: Woke Biden Cabinet, Indian Strikes, and Social Media Industry w/ Richard Seymour
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: The Science and Politics of COVID Vaccines
Suzi talks to her brother, Irv Weissman, Director of Stanford University’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, who gives us a clear and…
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Long Reads: Oliver Gloag on the Colonial Contradictions of Camus
Long Reads is a new 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: How Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge
What happened to social democratic politics? Dan interviews sociologist Stephanie Mudge on her book Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to…
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Michael and Us: The Ministry of 1984 ½
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Terry Gilliam sought to update George Orwell for the 1980s with…
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A World to Win: Municipal Socialism w/ Owen Hatherley
This week Grace Blakeley talks to Owen Hatherley, Tribune's culture editor and author of many books, including his most recent, Red Metropolis: Socialism and…
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Behind the News: Thomas Sugrue and Kristin Du Mez
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, from December 3…
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Weekends: Trumpism After Trump w/ Corey Robin, Amazon Union Drive, and Neera Tanden
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: Looking for a Spark — with Alex Han
Longtime labor organizer Alex Han talks with Micah about the 2008 Republic Windows and Doors factory occupation in Chicago. That occupation helped catalyze…
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The Dig: Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized." But this often works out quite badly in…
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A World to Win: #EndSARS w/ Sa'eed Husaini
This week Grace Blakeley is joined by Sa’eed Husaini, socialist activist and contributor to Africa is a Country and Jacobin. Sa’eed recently completed a PhD at…
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The Vast Majority: Workers in the 1970s Wanted Unions
Micah talks with labor historian Lane Windham about her excellent book Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic…
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Michael and Us: John Rambo Innocent! w/ Micah Uetricht
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a…
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Jacobin Radio: Tribute to Diego Maradona
Suzi introduces producers Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and Meleiza Figueroa, urban geographer, environmental…
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The Dig: Anti-Populism with Thomas Frank
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Thomas Frank about his book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism. From The Dig archives on populism…
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Long Reads: Joel Beinin on Ten Years of Arab Uprisings and Labor Struggles
Long Reads is a new Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers…
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Weekends: New China Cold War, Biden's Debt Cancellation, and DSA in Office w/ Julia Salazar
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: RudyLeaks
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Before he was the President's attorney, he was America's Mayor…
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The Dig: The NAACP's Anti-Lynching Struggle with Megan Ming Francis
Dan interviews political scientist Megan Ming Francis about the NAACP's struggle against racist violence in the teens and 20s and how it remade the criminal…
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Behind the News: Jennifer Berkshire and Kate Sykes
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug talks about…
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A World to Win: North by North West w/ Andy Burnham
On this week’s show Grace Blakeley is joined by Andy Burnham – former Labour MP and current Mayor of Greater Manchester. Recent weeks have seen Burnham, along…
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Weekends: Corbyn Suspension w/ Ronan Burtenshaw, Prop 22 Gig Work, and Polling Failure
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: Matt Karp and Mike Davis on the 2020 Election
Suzi talks to Matt Karp, contributing editor of Jacobin, about the significance of the 2020 election in geographic and demographic terms. Biden won both the…
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Michael and Us: Red and Blue
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. We travel to Lumberton to plumb the dark depths of David…
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Long Reads: Owen Miller on the Hidden History of the Korean War
Long Reads is a new, bi-weekly podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform…
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The Dig: Mike Davis on This Moment
Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left. Support this podcast at…
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Vast Majority: The Elections with Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
Producer Sarah Hurd steps up to mic to cohost this episode with Chicago city councilor and Democratic Socialists of America member Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, talking…
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A World to Win: Survival of the Friendliest w/ Rutger Bregman
On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In January of last…
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The Vast Majority: American Workers Work Way Too Much
Workers in the United States are getting squeezed from every angle. One of the worst consequences: Americans work way too many hours, and spend way too many…
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Weekends: Biden's Victory and How Democrats Almost Blew It 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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Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on the political economy of the 2020 election
Suzi talks to Robert Brenner about the political-economic dimension of the 2020 election, the country, and the pandemic – and what it means for the battles…
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Behind the News: Vijay Prashad and Jodi Dean
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Vijay Prashad and…
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Michael and Us: Back to Brunch
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. With Biden's victory all but confirmed, we discuss the…
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The Dig: What Now with Cornel West
Dan interviews Cornel West on how to think about and act upon the world that this week presented to us. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
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A World to Win: US Election Special w/ Briahna Joy Gray and Matt Karp
A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world…
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Weekends: Biden, Trump, and Socialist Politics Beyond the Horserace w/ Adolph Reed
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: Harry Litman on Bush vs. Gore, Marc Cooper on US Election and Chilean Plebiscite
Suzi talks to Harry Litman, former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, about the grim possibility that Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s citing of…
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Michael and Us: There Goes the Neighborhood
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. In this spooky Halloween episode, we consider the politics of…
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Introducing... Long Reads
Long Reads is a new, bi-weekly podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform…
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The Dig: 2020 with Naomi Klein and Nikhil Pal Singh
What else to talk about right now other than everything about right now? Election, pandemic, BLM, climate, and how the left should think about and struggle…