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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 RadioBehind the News: Update on Gaza w/ Mouin Rabbani
Mouin Rabbani discusses Israel's war on Gaza and the broader context of the conflict. Stefanie Stantcheva discusses her recent economicpapers about why people…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Immanuel Wallerstein's World-System w/ Gregory Williams
When Immanuel Wallerstein died in 2019, he was one of the most influential thinkers about the crisis-ridden development of global capitalism. People who might…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 11 - Ba’ath Seize Power
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the ELEVENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: UAW's Southern Campaign w/ Chattanooga Auto Workers
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee scored a smashing victory on April 19, when they voted by a 3-1 margin to join the UAW. That makes Tennessee…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Why I Quit the State Department w/ Annelle Sheline
Annelle Sheline talks about her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza. See her statement on Yahoo! News. Plus: Daniel…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Studio Sucky
After inhabiting the White House but before examining the Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin created a show that sought nothing less than to fix the most important…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 10 - Iraqi Revolution, Communist Power
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the TENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Neoliberalism's Far-Right Wing w/ Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian, who recently wrote a paper about Peter Brimelow, discusses the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism. Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Criminalizing Protest w/ Adam Federman
Adam Federman, author of a recent feature for In These Times, talks about the criminalization of protest. Kay Gabriel, who wrote a piece about anti-trans panic…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Nazarene Troublemaker
In the election year of 2004, an ultraviolent subtitled right-wing Christian movie became a genuine cultural phenomenon and political lightning-rod. We finally…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 9 - Palestine on the Road to Revolution
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the NINTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Serbia After Milošević
During the 1990s, the government of Slobodan Milošević led Serbia into another Balkan war. His allies in Bosnia were responsible for a litany of war crimes…
Jacobin RadioMay Day PSA
Jacobin is celebrating International Workers’ Day once again with solidarity subscriptions! Since our founding in 2010, we’ve aimed to reach millions with…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Price of Palestine Solidarity w/ Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like. Keri Leigh…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 8 - Origins of the Arab New Left
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the EIGHTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. A compact…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: The Death of Social Europe w/ Aurelie Dianara
At the end of last year, the French politician Jacques Delors died at the age of 98. Delors is best remembered for his time as president of the European…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Technofeudalism? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Scholars Against Genocide
Featuring Noura Erakat, Avi Shlaim, Ussama Makdisi, Ilan Pappé, Ghada Ageel Hamdan, and Abdel Razzaq Takriti on the ongoing Israeli genocide against…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Embrace the Fire w/ Alex Shephard
By the third entry of the God's Not Dead franchise, its creative team had clearly started listening to their critics. The result was a kinder, gentler…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Israel and the World Court w/ Heidi Matthews
Heidi Matthews surveys cases against Israel pending at the the World Court. Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, talks about Jelly Roll Morton and the…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 7 - United Arab Republic Against Eisenhower
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SEVENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Sit Down, Sit Down
For seven weeks in 1936 and 1937, workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a risky sit-down strike. A true David vs. Goliath story, their…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Weaponizing 'Safe Space' Discourse w/ Natasha Lennard
Trita Parsi explains why Israel is trying to expand its war to Iran and Hezbollah. Natasha Lennard analyzes the Zionist appropriation of leftish “safe space”…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: J. B. S. Haldane's Science and Socialism w/ Samanth Subramanian
J. B. S. Haldane was one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century. He played an important role in the development of genetics and the theory of…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: How Israel Exploits the Shoah w/ Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra, author of a recent article for the London Review of Books, "The Shoah after Gaza," talks about the propaganda-induced debasement of the…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 6 - Cold War Heats Up
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SIXTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Russia's Election w/ Ilya Matveev
Suzi talks to Ilya Matveev about the recent election in Russia giving Putin a fifth term in power—an election he argues was stage-managed from above. Matveev…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Kung Fu Bicycles
For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and, for a fee, they'll turn it…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: AIPAC Influence w/ David Moore
David Moore outlines how AIPAC is using GOP contributors’ money to go after progressive Democrats. Meron Rapoport discusses how Schumer and the ICJ are being…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 5 - The Struggle for Syria
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FIFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Death of the Future w/ Steve Fraser
Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos. Steve Fraser, author of a recent article for Jacobin, analyzes and mourns the death of…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Fresh Prince of Persia
In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf War. We…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Global North in Decline w/ Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad explains how the North American and European bourgeoisies have become a spent force with nothing to offer the world. Volodymyr Ishchenko, author…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Party's Over
Against the backdrop of the incredibly boring 2000 election, the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman went on a cross-country journey to see if George W. Bush or…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism w/ Warren Montag
Suzi talks to Warren Montag, professor at Occidental College, who was recently targeted for his talk at a college forum about Israel’s war on Gaza and issues…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Lessons
This final episode of Organize the Unorganized offers key lessons from the CIO moment. We asked all of our guests about this basic question, and these are…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 4 - From the Nakba to Nasser
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FOURTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Big Pharma's Toxic Record w/ Nick Dearden
From the HIV/AIDS crisis, to the opioid epidemic, to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical corporations have been accused of profiteering at the expense of…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Black Panthers, Myth & Reality w/ Donna Murch
Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party. Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood discuss Pakistan. Behind…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Is There an End to the CIO?
The eighth, penultimate episode of Organize the Unorganized concludes the main story of the CIO. We cover the organization’s communist purge in the late 1940s…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 3 - The Post-Colonial Arab State System
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the THIRD episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: A Talk on Latin American Revolts
Chilean writer and activist Pablo Abufom spoke at UCLA on February 23, 2024 about how the October 2019 social revolt in Chile propelled Gabriel Boric to power…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 2 - Birth of Arab Nationalism
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the second episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: War
The early period of the CIO arguably ended with the Little Steel strike in 1937. The strike's brutal repression and failure dramatically illustrated the limits…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Desi Diaspora Politics w/ Jeet Heer
Jeet Heer, author of a recent article for The Nation, discusses Indian Americans in politics and society. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: An Irreverent Tendency
In 1987, America was ready to look back on the Vietnam War... with laughter. We discuss GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987) and why it is one of the quintessential…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: From Gaza to Yemen w/ Helen Lackner
Over the last four months, the Israeli war on Gaza has spilled over into the rest of the Middle East, from Lebanon to Iraq. But the most dramatic example has…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Repression in Russia w/ Ilya Budraitskis
There are many markers showing February 2024 to be a landmark month of cruelty — not least in Gaza, but also in Russia, where we turn our focus today. The slow…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Thawra Ep. 1 - Europe's Imperial Juggernaut
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the first episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Eternal Present w/ Anna Kornbluh
Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers’ Club, discusses the finance racket and how to transform it. Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy, examines our…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: From the Docks to the Killing Floors
On episode six of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, we go deeper into some of the key CIO unions: the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Eat the Rich
We discuss THE MENU (2022) and its place in the context of the current wave of "eat the rich" cinema. PLUS: we discuss Walter Isaacson's new hagiography of…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Climate Politics w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Ajay Singh Chaudhary talks about his new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Matt Notowidigdo, co-author of a recent NBER paper…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: France's First Revolution w/ Justine Firnhaber-Baker
If you think about the French revolutionary tradition, you’re most likely to picture the storming of the Bastille and the overthrow of the monarchy. But that…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Your Money Or Your Life w/ Luke Messac
Featuring Luke Messac on Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine. An estimated 100 million people in the US are in debt because they…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Adaptation
Are commercial considerations always doomed to taint art? And are commercial considerations really a taint? We discuss Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Little Steel
Episode five of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO examines the Little Steel strike in the summer of 1937. It was a tragic failure for the Steel…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Tribute to Ed Broadbent
Ed Broadbent died January 11, 2024. Suzi speaks with the co-authors of Ed's recent book, Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality. We…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Genocide Case Against Israel w/ Sean Jacobs
Sean Jacobs explores why South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel. Eric Blanc, who wrote a recent piece about sprawl and the suburbs, talks about…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: The German Question w/ Emily Dische-Becker
Featuring Emily Dische-Becker on how Germany became attached to a wildly narcissistic anti-antisemitism and Israeli proxy nationalism that have made it one of…