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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
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation w/ Martin Empson
Last year, Martin Empson joined Long Reads to speak about the German Peasants’ War, Europe’s biggest social revolt before the French Revolution. Martin returns…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Trump’s Administrative Coup w/ David Cobb & Kali Akuno
Just two weeks in power, the new Trump administration has already led a horrifying whirlwind of attacks on immigrants, transgender people, tribal nations…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Tech Moguls and Journalism w/ Eoin Higgins
Eoin Higgins, author of Owned, talks about tech moguls and the journalists, like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, who work for them. Ronnie Grinberg, author of…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Building the Union w/ Hannah Srajer
Featuring Hannah Srajer on building tenant unions by applying labor organizing models. The Connecticut Tenants Union is partnered with SEIU 1199NE to organize…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Defending Immigrants w/ Victor Narro
President Trump is back in power and immediately moved to carry out his xenophobic policies with a slew of unconstitutional executive orders and plans for mass…
Jacobin RadioConfronting Capitalism: The End of Wokeness?
There is no cultural phenomenon more hated today than what is called wokeness. While it is wrongly associated with the Left, the Right is very successfully…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transform Los…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Trump's Middle East Plans w/ Mouin Rabbani
Mouin Rabbani surveys the Gaza ceasefire and Trump’s plans for the Middle East. Angela Jones and Bernadette Barton discuss the new book they co-edited, Sex…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Ceasefire in Gaza? w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Akbar Shahid Ahmed returns to Long Reads to discuss the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas — and what’s likely to happen next. Akbar is the senior…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Billionaires Killing California w/ Yasha Levine
Laura Jedeed, author of an article for the New Republic, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it. Yasha Levine, co-director of a new…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Mass Politics Today w/ Nancy Fraser
Jacobin Radio has featured many presentations from the recent conference held in honor of Boris Kagarlitsky, author of The Long Retreat, a sobering analysis of…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Crisis in Korea w/ Tim Shorrock
Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, talks about culture at the turn of the millennium. Tim Shorrock discusses the political crisis…
Jacobin RadioConfronting Capitalism: A Return to Materialism
Foregrounding workers’ material interests used to be commonplace among socialists. But as the Left faced decades of defeat, a materialist approach to politics…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Best of 2024
This week is a best of 2024, with Rashid Khalidi, Pankaj Mishra, Annelle Sheline, Aziz Rana, Anna Kornbluh, Brooke Harrington, and, in memoriam, Jane McAlevey…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Farewell Biden w/ Branko Marcetic
Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of Yesterday's Man, says farewell to Joe Biden (and takes some shots at Joe Scarborough too). Santiago…
Jacobin RadioConfronting Capitalism: Why Elites Love Identity Politics
In the wake of Kamala Harris's defeat, the Left's association with identity politics has been a major focus of public debate. But what identity politics is or…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Reversing the Left's Decline w/ Bill Fletcher Jr.
Suzi recently participated in a conference in honor of the dissident sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, who is languishing in Putin's prison for speaking out…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria w/ Bassam Haddad
Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assad’s rise and fall — and what might happen next. We think through the contradictions…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: HTS Takeover w/ Trita Parsi & Joshua Landis
Trita Parsi and Joshua Landis analyze what’s been going on in Syria. Tina Gerhardt reviews the annual UN climate conference, COP29, where little happened…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Class Struggle in Ancient Rome w/ Sarah Bond
As with many other periods, the history of the Roman Empire has often been told from the vantage point of a minoritarian social elite. Sarah Bond, a professor…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield
Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the…
Jacobin RadioConfronting Capitalism: Socialism in the 21st Century
Bernie Sanders resurrected socialist politics in the United States after many decades of defeat. But what socialism will entail or how we get there remains…
Jacobin RadioConfronting Capitalism: Workers Without a Party
The Democratic Party has long clung to the notion of “demographic destiny,” the view that minorities will vote blue no matter who. But now it is clear that…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Georgia's Democratic Crisis w/ Sopo Japaridze
Larry Bartels discusses his Foreign Affairs article about the right-wing “populist wave." Sopo Japaridze, co-author of a recent Jacobin article, examines the…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Collapse in Syria w/ Gilbert Achcar
Suzi talked to Gilbert Achcar just before the spectacular collapse of the Assad regime that has ruled Syria for more than fifty years. Achcar, author of many…
Jacobin RadioConfronting Capitalism: Why Liberalism Lost Again
In the inaugural episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber is joined by Jacobin's editorial director Bhaskar Sunkara to discuss why Trump won the…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Offshore Capital w/ Brooke Harrington
Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore, uncovers how and where the mega-rich stash their cash. Mahendran Thiruvarangan talks about a new leftish government in…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Netanyahu Is a Wanted Man w/ John Reynolds
Last week, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: The Landslide That Wasn't w/ Marc Cooper
Veteran journalist Marc Cooper joins Suzi to talk about the landslide that wasn’t, Trump’s transition swamp, and the state of the Fourth Estate. Trump’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Ethel Rosenberg's Execution w/ Michael Meeropol
Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, talks about how the government executed his mother despite knowing her innocence. Ruth Whippman, author of…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Crypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Predicting Trump Policy w/ Alex Vitale & Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven tries to divine a Trump foreign policy out of unreliable rhetoric and early appointments. Alex Vitale tries similar on Trump and criminal…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Return of the Trumpian Right w/ Dylan Riley
Suzi talks to UC Berkeley sociologist Dylan Riley, who has written a great deal about fascism and far right politics. The US has just elected to the Presidency…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: The Forever War on Gaza w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Earlier this week, Joe Biden welcomed the Israeli president Isaac Herzog to the White House. Last October, Herzog announced that there were no innocent…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Post-Election Analysis w/ Robert Brenner
We look at the election results that took many of us by surprise — giving Donald Trump and Republicans an across the board victory. For a look at the bigger…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: How the West Imagines Ukraine w/ James Foley
Doug comments on the Trump victory and the role of inflation. Dahlia Scheindlin talks about Israeli public opinion. James Foley and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Art of the Deal
Oh lord almighty, when will we be rid of this man? Apparently not for another four years at least. We ring in the latest chapter of this never-ending "Trump…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Democratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Israel and the Axis of Resistance w/ Mouin Rabbani
Laura Jedeed, author of a recent feature article for Lux, discusses the right’s war on North Idaho College. Mouin Rabbani talks about what’s driving Israel’s…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Pre-Election Special w/ John Nichols
Alan Minsky sits in for host Suzi Weissman on a special pre-election edition of Jacobin Radio. In the first half, Alan speaks with economist Mark Paul…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Roadside Picnic
Is Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979) about the Soviet Russia in which it was made? And if not, then where exactly is "The Zone"? We wade into one of the most…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Solidarity w/ Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Featuring Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Scale of US Aid to Israel w/ William Hartung
William Hartung, co-author of a recent paper for Brown University's Watson Institute, outlines how much aid the US has given to Israel over the last year…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: The German Peasants' War w/ Martin Empson
The German Peasants’ War was the biggest social revolt in a European country during the period before the French Revolution. In the wake of the Reformation, a…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Requiem for a Joker
Five years after Joker because an era-defining cultural phenomenon, its sequel, JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024), is the biggest flop of the year. We sifted through…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Belligerence of Biden-Harris w/ Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven dissects the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden-Harris foreign policy. Lily Lynch, author of a recent article for The Baffler…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics that’s sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Revisiting Marx's Capital w/ Paul North & Paul Reitter
Paul North and Paul Reitter discuss their new translation of Marx’s Capital. Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzhaky, authors of a recent article for Jacobin…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Imperialism Today w/ Robert Brenner
On October 8, the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign held an online conference on “Boris Kagarlitsky and the Challenges of the Left.” Although…
Jacobin RadioThawra Epilogue: Genocide and Resistance
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the third and final part of the epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our epic series on the history of revolutionary Arab…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Israel's Year of Genocide w/ Rashid Khalidi
Last October, Long Reads spoke to Rashid Khalidi, one of the leading historians of modern Palestine, about the Israeli attack on Gaza. Few people would have…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Myth of the Good Billionaire w/ Tim Schwab
The new Netflix documentary WHAT'S NEXT: THE FUTURE WITH BILL GATES (2024) positions the Microsoft founder as "one of the good billionaires." But what are the…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Labor Rising w/ Sara Nelson & Nina Turner
The rise of the labor movement in the US constitutes one of the brightest spots on the political horizon. Auto workers were joined by academic workers, actors…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Israel's Imperial Patrons w/ Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years War on Palestine, talks about Israeli settler-colonialism and its imperial patrons. Aurélie Daher looks at…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Ending the New Cold War w/ Jake Werner
Featuring Jake Werner on how the US and China entered into a New Cold War and why the whole world urgently needs an alternative international order that…