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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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The Dig: The Right to Have Rights Part II
This is part two of Dan's interview on Hannah Arendt's notion of "the right to have rights." This episode covers a lot, including why we must fight not only to…
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The Dig: The Right to Have Rights Part I
What are rights worth when government denies people the very right to have rights? Political theorist Hannah Arendt recognized this loss of "the right to have…
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The Dig: Comey Liberal Cop Fetish
James Comey is liberal America’s favorite cop and now, as a result, a bestselling author as well. Patrick Blanchfield returns to talk about his Baffler review…
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The Dig: Radicalizing Jackson with Chokwe Antar Lumumba
It's yet the latest installment in our ongoing series on the Left and electoral politics. Dan’s guest is Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson…
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Behind the News: Teachers' Strikes and Zombie Liberalism
The CUNY Grad Center's Kate Doyle Griffiths on teachers’ strikes and the crisis in social reproduction. Then, Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Denvir join to discuss…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: David Harvey on Marx Today
This week on Jacobin Radio, Suzi discusses the relevance of Marx for our present moment with anthropologist and Marxist geographer David Harvey. Harvey's…
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The Dig: These Primary Colors Don’t Run with Dave Weigel
It's the latest installment in our series on the left and electoral politics. Dennis Kucinich is running a viable race for governor of Ohio; Cynthia Nixon…
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The Dig: DSA at the Ballot Box
In the latest installment in our series on the Left and electoral politics, we're talking about the Democratic Socialists of America's new electoral strategy…
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Behind the News: Winnie Mandela; Colombian Election
Sean Jacobs, founder of Africa Is A Country, joins Doug to discuss Winnie Mandela’s legacy. Then, Forrest Hylton talks about Colombian politics in the run-up…
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The Dig: Petro-Imperialism with Timothy Mitchell Part II
Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the second of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of…
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The Dig: Petro-Capitalism with Timothy Mitchell Part I
Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the first of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Walmart Workers
Imagine you walk into a warehouse where the workers are on break, and you stumble into a vigorous, nuanced discussion of Marx’s notion of surplus value, how it…
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The Dig: Reviving Resistance to Empire with Aziz Rana
It’s our 100th episode and the launch of our spring fundraising drive! Aziz Rana returns to The Dig fifteen years after the invasion of Iraq to reflect on the…
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The Dig: Student-Debt Capitalism
It’s obvious that student debt can be an excruciating financial burden. But anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom explains that it has also done a lot to make American…
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The Dig: No Human Being Is Illegal with Mae Ngai
Many Americans take the existence of so-called "illegal immigrants" for granted, whatever their opinion of the matter. But illegality isn't a property of…
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Behind the News: Strikes, Strikes, and More Strikes
Education reporter and host of Have You Heard? Jennifer Berkshire on teachers’ strikes, in West Virginia and beyond. Then, Forbes contributor Stan Collender on…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Brazilian Upheaval
Suzi talks to Wagner Moura, a Brazilian actor known for his work in the Elite Squad films and the Netflix series Narcos, about the volatile political situation…
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The Dig: Real Sanctuary Means Ending Mass Policing with Kade Crockford
Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority…
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The Dig: MLK, Political Philosopher
Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry talk about their new book, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. King is often…
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Behind the News: What's Wrong With UBI, and Xi Jinping's Presidency for Life
John Clarke of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty on what’s wrong with a universal basic income (UBI), a proposal that's become increasingly popular among…
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The Dig: Lamb Is Not Enough. Three Leftist Women Run in PA
Democrat Conor Lamb's victory is a rebuke of Republicans. But Lamb is far from an ideal candidate, and so the race also raises a perennial debate between the…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Teacher Strikes and Trump v. California
Are we on the cusp of a new wave of worker militancy? We talk to Rebecca Cohen and Shaun Richman about the victory of West Virginia teachers (and public sector…
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The Dig: the State of Labor with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant
In West Virginia, a focal point of Trump-era liberal armchair ethnography, teachers have won a historic state-wide strike just as the Supreme Court is poised…
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The Dig: Gun Culture is Neoliberalism with Patrick Blanchfield
Neoliberal culture expects little from government and everything from plucky individuals — including, apparently, the self-sacrificing courage to charge an…
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The Dig: Gun Culture and Masculinity in an Age of Decline
How does gun culture get built from the ground up? What are the everyday politics of guns? Sociologist Jennifer Carlson does ethnographic fieldwork that…
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Behind the News: Liza Featherstone on the Meaning of the Focus Group
Liza Featherstone, author of Divining Desire, on the history and meaning of focus groups [disclosure alert: Featherstone is the host’s wife].
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The Dig: Nomiki Konst on the Fight Inside the Democratic Party
Nomiki Konst, a correspondent for The Young Turks and Sanders appointee to the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, talks about the Berniecrat struggle against a…
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The Dig: Glenn Greenwald on Surveillance Hypocrisy Amid Russiagate Mania
Did the "Woke Blacks" Instagram account really cost Clinton the election? Glenn Greenwald returns to the show to ask basic but rarely asked questions about the…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Robert Brenner on the Economy
On this “podcast-versary” of the premiere of Jacobin Radio – one year since her first podcast, Suzi Weissman invites Robert Brenner back for another extended…
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The Dig: It’s Iron Stache
Dan talks to Randy Bryce, the Berniecrat ironworker taking on Paul Ryan, about how he plans to knockout the House Speaker, Scott Walker’s decimation of unions…
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The Dig: Aziz Rana on the Cold War’s Late Demise
What if the Cold War only just ended in November 2016, as Donald Trump grotesquely encircled and then captured the presidency, finding it, to his surprise…
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Behind the News: The Right on the Offense
Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University David Palumbo-Liu on the right-wing attacks on him and the question of academic freedom. The…
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Behind the News: Our Chaotic, Militarized Present
Doug Henwood on stock market madness (longer version is here). Then Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, joins Doug to talk about the military and…
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The Dig: Frances Fox Piven on Why Movements Matter
Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, clear-eyed…
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The Dig: Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence
The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that discipline and…
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The Dig: Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned…
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Behind the News: Trump and the Global Left; Feminism and Economics
Author Vijay Prashad, professor of international studies at Trinity College, on Syria, Trump, and the state of the global left. Then, Jennifer Cohen, assistant…
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The Dig: Why Democrats Fought Then Folded on DACA with Jeff Stein
Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted to reopen…
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The Dig: The Militant '70s Labor Movement You Never Heard Of
Everyone agrees that the 1970s were the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear…
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Behind the News: Sandra Cuffe, Alexander Main, and Janet Capron
Journalist Sandra Cuffe on Honduras after a stolen election and waves of official violence. Alexander Main, Senior Associate of International Policy at the…
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The Dig: Workers' Rights Are Students' Rights
Student workers at Rutgers University are fighting for $15 an hour. Undergraduate history major and dining-hall worker Danny Taylor of @RutgersUSAS talks about…
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The Dig: A New Poor People’s Campaign with Nijmie Dzurinko
Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign alongside other organizers shortly before he was assassinated 50 years ago. Today, organizers…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Iranian Uprising
Suzi talks to UCLA sociologist and Iran expert Kevan Harris about the massive uprising that began in Iran at the end of December and quickly spread to every…
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The Dig: That Trump Book Tho with Patrick Blanchfield
Your first Diglet of the new year, and we’re talking about that Trump book. At n+1 Patrick Blanchfield makes the case that Fire and Fury is not, as some might…
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The Dig: Killing the Black Body with Dorothy Roberts
Chattel slavery made black women’s reproduction the source of private property — and in doing so, invented race and American racism. Ever since, the…
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Behind the News: What Social Reproduction Theory Offers Us
Professor Tithi Bhattacharya, editor of Social Reproduction Theory on capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and society. Social reproduction theory is a type of…
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The Dig: Troop Veneration and US Empire with Catherine Lutz
The protest movement against the onset of the Iraq War was countered by a call to “support our troops” from militarists on the Right. But venerating American…
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The Dig: Bhaskar Sunkara on the Bolsheviks
At the close of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara discusses his new article on the Bolsheviks and what we can learn from…
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Behind the News: Yanis Varoufakis on the Need for a Progressive Internationalism
Doug Henwood explains the bitcoin craze, and then ex-finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis ties up some loose ends on Adults in the Room, and discusses…
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The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Recovering Identity Politics from Neoliberalism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor returns to The Dig to discuss her new book How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Forty years ago, a group…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Media and Democracy
Journalists Robert Scheer, and Marc Cooper join Suzi Weissman in a wide-ranging discussion on "Media and Democracy: From the Vietnam War to the Consolidation…
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The Dig: Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American…
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The Dig: The Destruction of Black Wealth with Ryan Cooper
Journalist Ryan Cooper talks about the new paper he wrote with Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, a new left-wing think tank. "Foreclosed…
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The Dig: Peace Can Happen in Korea with Tim Shorrock
The prospect of nuclear war with North Korea sits near the top of the list of things that have been unthinkably bad about Donald Trump’s presidency. But the…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Neoliberalism on Steroids
Author and economist Dr. Jack Rasmus dissects the Trump/Ryan/McConnell Tax (Cut) Plan, that he says will only increase financial instability and economic…
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Behind the News: Corey Robin on the Right from Burke to Trump
Corey Robin, whose The Reactionary Mind has just been issued in an updated edition, on the Right from Burke to Trump. While most people on the Left fear and…
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The Dig: Clintonism's Dreadful Legacy with Robert Reich
Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary, explains one of Clintonism’s most dreadful results: President Trump. The new film Saving Capitalism, available on…
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The Dig: The Origins of the Opioid Crisis with Leo Beletsky
The drug war is a cause of, not solution to, the overdose crisis. Law and public health scholar @LeoBeletsky explains the origins of the opioid overdose crisis…
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The Dig: Bonus Episode, Alex Vitale v. Heather Mac Donald
We’ve got a bonus episode for you today, which is audio from a debate between Alex Vitale — a recent guest on this show, sociologist and author of The End of…
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Behind the News: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee returns to the show to discuss Red Hangover, her new book on the traumas of post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. Unique for an…