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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: A Monstrous Tax Plan That Might Fail with Arthur Delaney
The GOP tax plan is a monstrous giveaway to corporate America but it might not pass thanks to the same contradictions within the Republican coalition that…
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The Dig: The Reality of Central American Migration with Noelle Brigden
Trump's demagogic rhetoric on MS-13 is designed to obscure the truth about the reality and origins of mass Central American migration: the roots of migration…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: An Autopsy on the Democratic Party; Sexual Harassment and Inequality
Norman Solomon on the findings of a recently released report he co-authored, "Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis." It examines the continuing crises…
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The Dig: DSA Kicking Ass with Lee Carter and David Duhalde
Last week was a bad week for Republicans and a good week for Democrats — and for democratic socialists. It’s now pretty clear that Republicans will pay a price…
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Behind the News: From Offshore Wealth Rackets to Municipal Socialism
Brooke Harrington, author of Capital Without Borders, on the offshore wealth racket and the Paradise Papers. Then Kali Akuno, co-editor of Jackson Rising and a…
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The Dig: A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new book City of…
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The Dig: Don't Criminalize Sex Work with Melissa Gira Grant
Journalist @melissagira eviscerates a newspaper investigation that conflates sex work with trafficking. She examines how reporters unwittingly fall into a…
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Behind the News: Rich People Problems
The Intercept's Ryan Grim on the the state of the GOP, which despite recent losses in this week's elections, controls all three branches of the federal…
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Behind the News: McMansion Hell and Genteel Neo-Nazis
Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell on those abominable things dotting the American landscape. Then, Donna Minkowitz, author of this article, reports on her visit to…
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The Dig: The Hollow Center with Molly Ball and Eric Levitz
Centrist business elites believe in an America that doesn't exist. Two guests this episode: first, @mollyesque talks about her piece "On Safari in Trump's…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Keeping Up with Catalonia and Democratic Party Debates
Writer and author Andy Durgan discusses the fast-moving events taking place in Catalonia. This past week, Catalonia declared independence, and the Spanish…
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The Dig: Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck
Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been the growing…
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The Dig: Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana discusses his pivotal book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Rana overturns conventional accounts of American history, from settlement and…
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Behind the News: The Far Right Rises in Austria; A Hybrid Argument Against Rent-Seeking
Benjamin Opratko, a fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin who teaches at the University of Vienna, on the rise of the far right in Austria. On Sunday…
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The Dig: Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment
The exposure of Weinstein's predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in the…
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The Dig: Trump's Reactionary Mind with Corey Robin
Corey Robin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined by…
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The Dig Bonus: Ending the War on Drug Dealers
Dan was on a panel last week on ending the war on drug dealers at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Atlanta. The panel was moderated by asha bandele and…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: One Hundred Years Since October
Suzi Weissman switches seats with Robert Brenner: she is the guest and he does the interviewing. The program begins with a talk Suzi gave recently in Berkeley…
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Behind the News: From the Chinese Communist Party Congress to US Policing
Isabel Hilton, editor of ChinaDialogue.net, discusses recent developments at the Chinese Communist Party Congress. Then, Doug is joined by Alex Vitale, author…
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The Dig: Let's Elect Left Candidates with Joe Dinkin
Since Bernie Sanders's success in the 2016 Democratic primary, much of the Left, from progressive Democrats to socialists, has had its sights set on something…
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The Dig: We must end policing as we know it with Alex Vitale
In his new book The End of Policing Brooklyn College sociologist @avitale makes the case that technocratic reforms won't fix American policing. In reality, we…
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Behind the News: Yanis Varoufakis on Adults in the Room.
An extended interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on his new book, Adults in the Room, the story of his surreal negotiations with…
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The Dig: Matt Christman Rants, Raves, and Ruminates.
Chapo went on The Dig. Dan talks to@cushbombabout optimism, pessimism, Manitowoc, reptilians, why the internet might be mostly bad, and Dan’s personal…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
<font size="4">Suzi Weissman talks to</font><font size="4">Einde O’Callaghan, a teacher and member of Die Linke, about Germany’s recent election, in which the…
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The Dig: Let's Keep the Political Revolution In Motion with Nina Turner
Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner talks about being horrified by Trump, why single-payer is suddenly hot among likely 2020 Democratic contenders, and the…
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The Dig: Beware Carceral Gun Control
Prevailing debate obscures the fact that we already have a form of gun control in the United States. As legal scholar Ben Levin explains, the problem is that…
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Behind the News: Politics from Germany to Puerto Rico to Today's Punk Scene
First, author Joel Schalit explores the rise of the right in Germany. Then, Professor Marisol LeBrón talks about the role of debt and austerity in impairing…
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The Dig: Bonus Episode with Larry Krasner's Full Interview
Here's Dan's full interview with civil rights attorney and Democratic nominee for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. You heard some of it yesterday…
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The Dig: The Story Behind America's Mass Incarceration Experiment, Part One
In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn't have been more wrong. Interviews with…
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Behind the News: Party Politics in Germany and the UK
Journalist Lukas Hermsmeier on German politics after the recent election, which saw a breakthrough for the AfD, a far-right party, the first to have seats in…
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The Dig: Marisol LeBrón & Brandy Jensen: Puerto Rico, Austerian Disaster; Roy Moore, Perfect Republican
Today’s Diglet is not really diminutive at all. Dan has two interviews with two separate guests because too much has happened over the past few weeks and there…
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The Dig: The War on Terror Made Trump's Islamophobia A Reality with Khaled Beydoun
Islamophobia is conventionally regarded as racist and bigoted views about Muslims expressed by ignorant individuals, including the one who somehow became…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Urban Politics from Barcelona to Chicago
We look at urban politics from Barcelona to Chicago with Isidro Lopez, PodemosMember of Parliament in Madrid, and Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago…
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The Dig: What Happened Is Not About What Actually Happened
For this Diglet, Dan and Eve Peyser discuss What Happened, Hillary Clinton's new book. Eve also talks about spending time with Jill Stein recently, and argues…
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Behind the News: Andrew Cockburn on Saudi Arabia and 9/11, Asad Haider on Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark Lilla, and identity
Andrew Cockburn, author of this article, on the Saudi involvement in 9/11 • Asad Haider, author of this article, on identity, Mark Lilla, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Behind the News: Chris Sims on school reform and techno-fetishism, Christian Parenti on climate changes
September 7, 2017 Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation, on school reform and techno-fetishism • Christian Parenti, author of this article, on climate…
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The Dig: Stephen Wertheim: Trump's Unexceptional America
Trump is normal in more ways than people care to admit, but he is different in that he parts from the bedrock ideology of American exceptionalism that has…
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The Dig: An Olympic-Size Swindle in LA with Molly Lambert and Jules Boykoff
The so-called Olympic spirit doesn’t match the reality of a highly-corporatized Games that often leaves taxpayers picking up the tab, engenders abusive…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Christian Parenti on Climate Change
On Jacobin Radio today we talk to Christian Parenti, now teaching in the economics program at John Jay College (CUNY) about the catastrophic effects of climate…
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The Dig: Houston: A Segregated Disaster in a Segregated City
This two-hour episode is a look at inequality in Houston from slavery to the present. First, Dan talks to Tyina Steptoe, historian at the University of Arizona…
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The Dig: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on DACA
Immigration law scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández breaks down the lies, misdirections, and bigoted absurdities conveyed by Attorney General Jeff…
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The Dig: Kate Aronoff on the Populist Revolt Against the Climate Crisis
The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey has made the denial of climate change all the more dangerous. But writer Kate Aronoff says that mainstream liberals…
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The Dig: The Politics of Hurricane Harvey
New Republic reporter Emily Atkin talks about why Harvey is already and inherently political thanks to climate change and the potential for petrochemical…
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The Dig: Adrian Chen On How Factcheck.org Won’t Save America
Is the internet good or bad? The debate is more often than not a proxy for one about politics more generally and populism in particular. But the real issue…
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Behind the News: Identity, Class, and the Far Right
Jodi Dean, a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses how to rethink the class vs. identity debate, as well as the…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
First, Robert Kuttner, the co-editor of The American Prospect, recorded the day after Kuttner published his conversation with White House Chief Strategist…
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The Dig: Trump’s Happy Place with Alex Pareene
Dan talks to Splinter Politics Editor Alex Pareene about his recent piece “Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party” and about why…
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The Dig: Andrew Bacevich on The War That Never Ends
The War on Terror’s permanence should be remarkable, an outrage. But it is precisely because the war has become permanent that it has long since been rendered…
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Behind the News: Sex and Gender in the Former Socialist World; Race and Mass Incarceration
Kristen Ghodsee, author of Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Duke University Press, 2017), joins Doug to discuss sex and gender in the…
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RL Stephens Live from Charlottesville: Local DSA Members Speak Out
In the wake of the fascist terror attack, RL attended DSA Charlottesville's monthly meeting. Time and again, the issues of safety and violence were discussed…
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The Dig: Why Establishment Democrats Punch "Alt-Left"
New Republic writer Sarah Jones on Trump's invocation of the "alt-left," the term's unseemly centrist history, and more. We're gonna try doing two episodes…
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RL Stephens Live from Charlottesville: The Haven
RL talks with Kevin, an organizer at The Haven, a nonprofit serving Charlottesville's homeless population. Kevin knew Heather Heyer because she had helped him…
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The Dig: What's Next for the Colombian Left with Forrest Hylton
The FARC peace accord is a historic victory for Colombian society. But the struggle to build an urban left strong enough to take on the country's powerful…
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Stockton to Malone #7: Don't Call it a Comeback
Paula Mielke lives in Falcon Heights, Minnesota--where Philando Castile was murdered by a police officer. She had never before considered herself an activist…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Democrats, Trump, and The Case For Universal Health Care
On Jacobin Radio, Dan La Botz. co-editor of New Politics discusses the Democrat Party's "bullshit deal;" Professor Jeremy Bendik-Keymer talks about Trump and…
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The Dig: Confronting the Neoliberal Narco-State in Mexico with Christy Thornton
With Trump, Mexico is the symbol and source of so many things that are wrong with the United States. Oftentimes, these stories told about Mexico in the United…
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The Dig: R.L. and Ella on The Upcoming DSA Convention
We’re taking a quick break halfway into our four-part series of interviews on Latin America because this week is a big week for the American Left: Democratic…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The State of the US Economy and Mainstream Politics
On Jacobin Radio, UCLA historian and coeditor of Catalyst Robert Brenner joins Suzi to discuss the state of the US economy, mainstream politics, and…
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The Dig: Explaining Venezuela's Crisis
A decline in oil prices gutted the revenue stream that Venezuela depended on to bankroll its social spending. The government led by Chavez’s successor Nicolás…
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Behind the News: Race and Mass Incarceration
Doug interviews two guests. First, James Forman, Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own, analyzes the relationship between race and mass incarceration. Then…