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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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Behind the News: Single Payer in CA, What's Wrong with the Pension System?
Doug interviews two guests. First, Robert Pollin, a professor at U Mass-Amherst, addresses the economics of how single payer can work in CA. Then, Michael…
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Behind the News: China, Climate, and the Paris climate accord; Nancy Maclean on the Right's War on Democracy
Doug interviews two guests. First, Kate Gordon, a Senior Adviser at the Paulsen Institute, talks about China, Climate, and the Paris climate accord. Then…
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The Dig: Left Power and Environmentalism in Ecuador
Dan’s guest today is Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist at Providence College. They discuss Ecuador’s 2017 elections, in which the left won a narrow…
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Behind the News: Korean Politics, Shakeups in the Wake of the British Elections
Doug interviews two guests. First, Tim Shorrock on the two Koreas: while South Korea has a recently-elected leader, the North continues testing missiles while…
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Behind the News: The Kochs' Academic Network, the Politics of Brazil
Doug interviews two guests. First, investigative journalist Alex Kotch talks about the Koch academic network. Then, Alfredo Saad Filho, a professor of…
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The Dig: Trump & the Deportation Machine Reloaded
Dan talks with Dara Lind, the immigration reporter at Vox. They discuss how Trump has made Obama's massive deportation machine into a terrifying spectacle in a…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Major Failure for the Democratic Party & Emmanuel Macron's New Majority
In the latest episode Suzi will cover election results across the globe. First, Tom Ferguson, Professor Emeritus at U Mass Boston, will discuss the Democratic…
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The Dig: Fighting the Boss with Sarah Jaffe
Workers have for years faced a neoliberal onslaught administered by a bipartisan establishment of technocratic elites who have ensured the redistribution of…
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The Dig: Bringing Down the Trump Brand with Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein takes on President Donald Trump’s brand, and offers some thoughts as to how to tarnish it, in her new book “No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's…
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The Dig: Locking Up Our Own, with James Forman Jr.
Mass incarceration controls poor people and populations that have been excluded from the labor market. Politically, tough-on-crime rhetoric has for decades…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: How Should We Engage the Democratic Party?
Joining Suzi are Maria Svart, National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Becky Bond, co-founder of the Knock on Every Door campaign and…
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The Dig: Richard Seymour: Under Corbyn, Labour's Got Momentum
Bernie would have won. And in the UK, he sort of did last week. The Labour Party, under left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn (full name: Jeremy Bernard Corbyn) came…
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Stockton to Malone #6: Picket Signs & Wicked Rhymes
In These Times editor Miles Kampf-Lassin cracks open a cold one with the boys in the Stockton to Malone studio/supply closet. Micah, Miles, and RL discuss…
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Behind the News: The Pepe/Putin Connection
Doug interviews two guests. First, Yasha Levine, author of the forthcoming Surveillance Valley, discusses Russia, the NSA, and the Intercept election hacking…
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The Dig: Donald Trump's Big Finance Bait and Switch
Dan interviews journalist David Dayen on President Trump's financial policy. Despite espousing white populist rhetoric on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Can Corbyn Win?
Suzi interviews two guests about the surging Jeremy Corbyn and the fate of leftwing class politics in the coming UK elections. Journalist and author Paul Mason…
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Behind the News: U.S. Origins of Nazi Race Law; How Strikes Can Challenge Bourgeois Law
Doug interviews two guests. First, James Whitman on the U.S. origins of Nazi race law. Second, Alex Gourevitch discusses strikes and their challenge to…
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The Dig: Trump's Wall Has Already Been Built
Donald Trump pledged to build a big, beautiful wall on the border with Mexico. For liberals, the wall now shares a toxic association with Trump. But until…
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The Dig: The New Drug War Landscape Under Trump
The drug war is winding down around the country and heating up under Trump at the same time. Rick Lines of Harm Reduction International lays out the humane and…
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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Why We Need Hope
Hope is more than a mood or feeling — it's the basis for all political action, argues Ronald Aronson in an interview with Suzi Weissman. Bernie Sanders's…
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By Taking Power: Spring 2017 Issue Launch
Jacobin's latest issue, "By Taking Power," asks: What has the Pink Tide accomplished? What is its future? When the Pink Tide emerged in Latin America, the U.S…
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Stockton to Malone #5: Get Out, Brocialism and the "Terminegro"
Micah and RL finally release their take on Jordan Peele's film "Get Out." Micah sees the story as standard brocialist propaganda, an ode to unionized public…
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The Dig: What's the Matter with Appalachia? Capitalism.
What’s the matter with Appalachia? Many liberal elites think they know the answer. Since Trump’s campaign began, the region has become a symbol of all that is…
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Stockton to Malone #4: Boss So Salty
Micah welcomes RL to the Jacobin staff family. RL immediately pitches "Marxistpiece Theater," making Micah instantly regret their new work situation. Later…
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The Dig: Against Lean-In Feminism, with Liza Featherstone
The Women’s March on Washington showed the power of women's leadership in the battle against Trump and the Right. But significant divides that pervaded the…
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Behind the News: UK Elections, Labour, and Sex Work; Turkey's Rising Authoritarianism
Doug interviews two guests. First, Margaret Corvid on the British election, the Labour Party—and sex work. Second, Emre Öngün on Turkey’s deeper slide into…
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Dean Baker on Trump's Tax Plan for the Rich
Why do Republicans only seem to care about deficits and debt when they’re trying to cut social welfare programs? Dan's guest for this special episode is Dean…
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The Dig: Adam Johnson on All the Fake News That's Fit to Print
Under President Trump, the media has become a part of the story like never before. Journalistic probing has irritated our touchy president. But media outlets…
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Behind the News: The Sorry State of the French Elections + Georgia, Libertarian Paradise
Sebastian Budgen on the second round of the French elections, pitting a centrist against a fascist. And Sofia Japaridze on how foreign NGOs turned Georgia (the…
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Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Tariq Ali on Vladimir Lenin
Weissman interviews Tariq Ali, filmmaker, activist, and author of numerous books, on his new book The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love…
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The Dig: The Neoliberal vs the Neofascist in France
The Dig normally serves up ice cold, well-digested takes. Sometimes, however, something important happens and Dan finds someone who can help us understand it…
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The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and Socialism
Putting “black faces in high places,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority — it has…
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Stockton to Malone #3: Making Sense of a Murder in Chicago
RL interviews Chantel Johnson, whose brother Richie was one of the hundreds of young black men murdered in gun violence in Chicago in recent years. She and RL…
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Behind the News: Thea Riofrancos on Ecuador, Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss on the Alt-Right
Politicial scientist Thea Riofrancos on Ecuador's elections, the state of social movements and the Left there, and the decline of the pink tide in Latin…
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The Dig: The Ubiquity and Invisibility of Incarceration
Prisons don’t just keep inmates in; they keep the public out. Even at a moment when mass incarceration is under unprecedented criticism, it is hard for people…
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The ABCs: Don't Rich People Deserve to Keep Their Money?
The Right has long looked to lower taxes, especially for rich people, out of a belief that rich people deserve to keep their money because they earned it. In…
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Behind the News: Max Sawicky on Republican Tax Schemes, Vijay Prashad on Syria
Max Sawicky on Republican tax schemes and Vijay Prashad on Syria.
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The Dig: Is Neoliberalism Over? With Nicole Aschoff
Trump’s oligarchic regime is an extreme version of the imperial and economic vision that has guided presidents of both major parties. But the popularity of…
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Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Sebastian Budgen on France's Elections
Suzi Weissman talks with Verso Books editor Sebastian Budgen about the French elections.
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Behind the News: We Need Robots Working More So We Can Work Less
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of Inventing the Future, on getting beyond folk politics to a world where robots work more and people (supported by a…
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The ABCs: Isn't the US Already Kind of Socialist?
You’ve probably seen the memes purporting to show just how socialist the United States already is by listing a bunch of government programs, services, and…
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The Dig: Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare Is Great and We Need More of It
Medicaid expansion saved Obamacare from repeal. There’s a lot to hate about Obamacare, but that expansion did something very good on a very large scale — and…
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Behind the News: Jodi Dean on Populism and Jane McAlevey on Real Organizing
Doug Henwood interviews Jodi Dean on why the temptations of populism should be resisted, and Jane McAlevey, author of No Shortcuts, on real organizing, not…
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Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Adam Curtis: The Left Must Present an Alternative Vision
Suzi Weissman interviews documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis on why the Left has to present a compelling, alternative vision of a better future — or it's doomed.
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The ABCs: Is Socialism Just a Western, Eurocentric Concept?
Socialism is in the air. But the idea of socialism is under attack—and not only from the Right. Within the Left itself, there is suspicion of an ideal many…
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The Dig: Corey Robin on the Reactionaries' Minds Under Trump
What a moment to read, or to re-read, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, political scientist Corey Robin’s 2011 collection of…
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Behind the News: Yanis Varoufakis on Europe's Crises
Doug Henwood interviews the former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis, discussing the interminable euro crisis, austerity, Brexit, the nationalist…
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The Dig: The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump
The Democratic Socialists of America are growing — suddenly and explosively. Last June ahead of the Democratic National Convention, DSA counted 6,500 members…
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Behind the News: The Fight for Single Payer and What's Next After the Women's Strike
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting journalist and author Doug Henwood’s show Behind the News on Jacobin Radio.In addition to writing a number of…
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Kool AD on Art, Capitalism, and Why Marx Would've Been a Great Rapper
Since leaving the joke-rap/not-joke-rap group Das Racist in 2012, Victor Vasquez, AKA Kool AD, has stayed busy. His many artistic endeavors—music, visual art…
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Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Mike Davis on Trump, the Democrats, and the Working Class
Suzi Weissman interviews longtime Marxist writer Mike Davis on the questions facing the Left in the wake of Donald Trump's victory. How did Hillary Clinton and…
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The ABCs: Does Human Nature Make Socialism Impossible? with Adaner Usmani
Sure, the concept of socialism sounds nice, but people aren’t very nice, right? Isn’t capitalism much more suited to human nature — a nature dominated by…
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The Dig: What the Media Doesn't Get About the Left, with Dave Weigel
On the Left, few forms of mainstream journalism are more detested than political reporting. It often substitutes the horse race for substance, dresses up…
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The ABCs: Why Do Socialists Care So Much About Workers? with Vivek Chibber
Socialists put the working class at the center of their political vision. But why, exactly?Vivek Chibber, Professor of Sociology at New York University and the…
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The Dig: Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump, with Charlene Carruthers
The Movement for Black Lives’ insistence that black lives matter is deceptively straightforward and minimal. But it has transformed black politics, and…
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Stockton to Malone #2: White Privilege vs. Obama's Jordans
Episode 2 of Stockton to Malone. No interview here, just RL and Micah discussing RL's performance of the socialist equivalent of Kendrick Lamar's "Control" at…
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The Dig: Marie Gottschalk on Mass Incarceration and Trump's Carceral State
Mass incarceration should be central to any analysis of American political economy. It's also a moral monstrosity. But before The New Jim Crow and anti-mass…
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Matt Karp and Eric Foner on US Slaveholders' Foreign Policy
American slaveholders before the Civil War oversaw an incredibly brutal economic system that generated enormous wealth for a tiny elite while denying enslaved…
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The Promise and Pitfalls of Fighting Trump
The horrors of the Trump administration have shown no signs of slowing in the month he has been in office. But so far, neither has the pushback we've seen in…
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Lessons from the 1980s for a New Sanctuary Movement
Donald Trump's viciously xenophobic policies have put the word "sanctuary" on many people's lips. But immigrant rights organizers under Trump don't have to…