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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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Jacobin Radio: DSA; Generation Priced Out
Suzi talks to DSAers Jeremy Gong and Magally Miranda Alcazar about the larger issues they are confronting after two years of Trump, a midterm election that saw…
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The Dig: Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright
It's irrelevant whether establishment liberals are sincerely aware of the threat posed by climate catastrophe because they are constitutionally hemmed in by a…
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The Dig: Feminism for the 99% with Tithi Bhattacharya
Striking women have begun to reclaim feminism as a project of working-class struggle against not only patriarchy's domination of women by men but also against…
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The Dig: Hegemony How-To with Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Dan's guest is long-time organizer Jonathan Matthew Smucker, the author of Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals. The book is both a critique of the radical…
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Jacobin Radio: Kate Aronoff on Democratic Party Politics
Suzi talks to Kate Aronoff about Bernie Sanders’s candidacy, the Green New Deal, and the Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders raised a whopping $6 million the…
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Behind the News: Housing and the Green New Deal
Daniel Aldana Cohen, author of this article, on the role of housing in a Green New Deal. Then, Joel Whitney, author of this article, on the CIA's history as a…
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Behind the News: AIPAC; the Green New Deal
Noah Kulwin, staff writer with Jewish Currents, on why Ilhan Omar’s AIPAC tweets weren't antisemitic. Then, Thea Riofrancos, one of editors of Jacobin's Green…
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The Dig: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire with Dylan Riley
Dan discusses The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte — Marx's take on revolution and reaction in mid-nineteenth-century France, the broader theories he…
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The Dig: Contradictions with Eric Levitz
Dan talks to Eric Levitz — who at New York magazine provides the sort of consistently thoughtful and deeply contextualized analysis that is often quite hard to…
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The Dig: 2020 with Briahna Gray, Dave Weigel, and Waleed Shahid
What might Bernie 2020 look like, particularly now that almost everyone claims to be for Medicare for All (whatever they might mean by that)? Will Harris's…
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Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on the State of the Economy
<font color="#000000">The state of the economy is, despite assertions to the contrary, not strong; it is being plundered by the alliance of top corporate…
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The Dig: Palestine Politics with Linda Sarsour
Two left-wing Muslim women newly elected to Congress—Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar—are resetting the Congressional debate…
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The Dig: Venezuela
Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland and Naomi Schiller on the profound economic, social, and political crisis in Venezuela. More than three million refugees and…
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The Dig: The Drug War in Mexico with Anabel Hernández
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is on trial in New York. After twice making his way out of Mexican prisons, he was extradited…
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Jacobin Radio: Anatomy of the LA Teachers Strike
#Red4EdLA: Los Angeles teachers lead the way for the labor movement — striking FOR public education — using the strike weapon to reverse the damage of decades…
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Behind the News: Alex Caputo-Pearl and Jane McAlevey on the LA teachers strike
Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of the Los Angeles teachers’ union and Jane McAlevey, author and organizer, on the union’s great victory in their LA strike…
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Behind the News: Trump's Foreign Policy; GE
Historian Andrew Bacevich tries to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy. Then, Steven Maher (author of this article) on the rise and fall of GE.
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The Dig: Populism's Power
Democracy is the proposition that the people should govern themselves. But who are the people, and how should they govern? Populist movements attempt to answer…
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Jacobin Radio: LA Teachers on Strike!
On this special #RedforEd edition of Jacobin Radio, Suzi speaks with former teacher, member of the School Board, City Council, and State Assembly Jackie…
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The Dig: LA Teachers Strike with Sarah Jaffe
The teacher strike wave continues as more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles walk picket lines not only for the higher wages that they deserve…
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The Dig: Astra Taylor on Democracy
Jacobin editor Alyssa Battistoni interviews Astra Taylor on her new film What is Democracy?, in which Astra asks ordinary people and political philosophers…
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Jacobin Radio: LA Teachers, and Fossil Fuel Transitions
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Suzi speaks to energy specialist and author Simon Pirani about his new book, Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil…
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The Dig: Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana
Typically, people think about migration as immigration: people crossing international borders from one nation-state to another. And for the past half century…
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The Dig: Family Values with Melinda Cooper
Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case that neoliberalism and…
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Jacobin Radio: The "Miracle" of Silicon Valley; Democratic Party Futures
Suzi talks to scholar activist Richard Walker about his new book, Pictures of a Gone City, an urban geography of the San Francisco Bay Area, America’s richest…
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The Dig: The Green New Deal with Kate Aronoff
Trump and fossil-fueled conservatives have pit working-class prosperity against environmentalism. This, of course, is incredibly dangerous. It's also premised…
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The Dig: Crashed with Adam Tooze
Historian Adam Tooze, the author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, explains how crisis in an unprecedentedly powerful and…
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Jacobin Radio: Gilets Jaunes, the Gamification of Class Struggle
In this episode, Suzi talks to Jacobin contributing editor Sebastian Budgen about the gilet jaunes protests rocking France, named for the yellow traffic vests…
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Behind the News: Paying for Medicare for All; The Problems with Post-Work
Robert Pollin, lead author of this paper, on how to pay for Medicare for All — covering everyone and saving money. Then, Anton Jäger on the problems with the…
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The Dig: Yellow Vests with Danièle Obono and Jerome Roos
There has been no greater exemplar of zombie neoliberalism in power than French President Emanuel Macron's imperial technocracy. Now, with the rise of the…
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The Dig: Bad Objects with Andrea Long Chu and Marissa Brostoff
Marissa Brostoff and Andrea Long Chu discuss Sex and the City and the X-Files, unraveling the tangled history of Marxism and queer theory, Cynthia Nixon the…
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Behind the News: Gun Politics
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, on the politics of guns.
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Jacobin Radio: GM Shutters Plants; Life at the US-Mexico Border
Suzi speaks first with Mike Parker, author, rabble-rouser, and union activist, who worked for thirty-tow years in auto in Detroit, about what is behind GM’s…
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The Dig: Haddad and Varoufakis Fighting Right-Wing Populism
On Saturday, Dan was in New York to interview Fernando Haddad and Yanis Varoufakis. Haddad is the former Workers Party mayor of São Paulo who recently lost…
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The Dig: The Left Knows No Borders with Richard Seymour
How unlucky it was for Angela Nagle to make her so-called left case against immigration the same week that Hillary Clinton reprised her neoliberal case for…
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The Dig: Jeff Sessions's Brutal Legacy
Guns in general, and American gun culture in particular, have created a horrific bloodbath. But much of the liberal gun control movement has, in concert with…
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The Dig: Barbara Ransby on Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter is a poignant slogan and a powerful force for social transformation. It’s also shorthand for a huge array of organizations, mostly led by…
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Jacobin Radio: Fires Raging in California
A look at the fires raging across California, and the impending teacher’s strike. Suzi talks to urban theorist Mike Davis for his “Tale of Two Fires,”…
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The Dig: A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn Slobodian
Neoliberalism: we all hate it, but what does it mean? Dan talks to intellectual historian Quinn Slobodian about his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the…
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The Dig: The Roots of White Power Violence With Kathleen Belew
The man who carried out the massacre in Pittsburgh was motivated by a belief that Jewish people were conspiring to destroy the white race by way of…
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Jacobin Radio: Bolsanaro in Power
Suzi talks to political economist Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos about the October 28 election that brought the ultra-right wing Jair Bolsonaro to power. Bolsonaro…
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Behind the News: Trans Politics; Fascist Bolsonaro
Historian Amanda Armstrong on the importance of trans politics. Then, political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on the prospects for Brazil under the fascist…
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The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn remains a model for left-wing intellectuals who want to not only convey ideas to a public beyond academia but also take action to…
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The Dig: Madawi al-Rasheed on Saudi Royal Brutality
The brutality of the Saudi royal family had been hiding in plain sight. It was an open secret convenient to the political, media and business elites for whom…
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The Dig: The Color of Economic Anxiety
Recently, Dan spoke to Nikhil Pal Singh about the unfortunate and never-ending debate over whether it was economics or racism that got Trump elected. This is a…
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The Dig: Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, a Socialist for Chicago
Jacobin Managing Editor Micah Uetricht pulls Dave-Davies-duty for Dan and interviews Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, a DSA member running for alderwoman in Chicago…
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The Dig: Economics Discounting Climate Catastrophe. REPOSTED.
CORRECT EPISODE NOW POSTED. Today's episode is on the alarming new report out from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and how it is…
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Jacobin Radio: On Two Upcoming Elections
A look at two forthcoming elections: the November midterms in California, and the second round of Brazil’s general election on Oct 28. Gustavo Arrellano of…
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Behind the News: German Politics; Why the Supreme Court Sucks
Leandros Fischer on German politics, with an emphasis on refugees. Then, Samuel Moyn, author of a recent Boston Review article, on why the Supreme Court sucks…
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The Dig: Explaining Brazil's Crisis with Alfredo Saad-Filho
Brazil is headed toward fascism by way of Jair Bolsonaro, a sexist, homophobic, and violent militarist clown nostalgic for a murderous dictatorship. How did…
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The Dig: Sawant on Socialism Against the Amazonification of Seattle
Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant was elected to Seattle City Council way before socialism became a cool thing. Today, Dan's talking to Sawant about how…
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The Dig: Reasonable Men Calming You Down with Moira Weigel
Today, we’re addressing one of the most obnoxious corners of the identity politics debate. And that is the corner occupied by Right Liberals who believe that…
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The Dig: Lessons from the New Left with Max Elbaum
Let’s ensure that the history of American socialism doesn’t repeat as farce. That’s one reason that Max Elbaum wrote Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals…
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Jacobin Radio: Brett Kavanaugh's Banal, Reactionary Mind
Meagan Day, Natalie Shure, and Alissa Quart reflect with Suzi Weissman on the toxicity — and banality — of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme…
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The Dig: Lisa Duggan on the Open Secret of Sexual Assault
Christine Blasey Ford and other women have revealed that our political-economic elite is pervaded by profound intimate violence, forms of brutal interpersonal…
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Behind the News: Ruling-Class Power
Sociologist Shamus Khan on the culture of elite schools and the sense of entitlement they breed. Then, political scientist Thea Riofrancos on the…
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The Dig: Reclaiming Philadelphia
An interview with three members of Reclaim Philadelphia, which emerged from the Bernie 2016 campaign in Philly and has since — in a remarkably short amount of…
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Behind the News: Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, on the win–win business- and plutocrat-friendly philanthropy of today’s nouveau riche.
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Jacobin Radio: Far-Right Rising
Legal analyst Harry Litman joins Suzi to unpack the legal and constitutional questions raised in both the Mueller investigation and the confirmation hearings…
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The Dig: Patrick Blanchfield on Serious Men
Serious people in Washington are seduced by vapid and self-serving accounts of their savvy operation of the machinery of government — works like Bob Woodward's…