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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 RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Taking Stock
How was it that the CIO was finally able to make good on the decades-old dream of industrial unionism? In the fourth episode of Organize the Unorganized: The…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Inevitable Barbie Episode
The world can't stop discoursing about it. Hillary Clinton herself has championed it. And our superdelegate patrons specifically requested it. It's time for us…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Israel on Trial w/ John Reynolds
At least 26,000 people are now estimated to have been killed by Israel’s war on Gaza, although the real figure is believed to be even higher. The main legal…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Red Sea Crisis w/ Shireen Al-Adeimi
Shireen Al-Adeimi of Michigan State and the Quincy Institute discusses the Houthis. Political scientist Aurélie Daher gives another view of Hezbollah. Behind…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Yemen and the Houthis w/ Helen Lackner
Featuring Helen Lackner on the Houthis, the politics of their attacks on Red Sea shipping, and the long history of Yemen from British colonial Aden through the…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Sit Down!
On the third episode of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, we examine the first major victories of the CIO in rubber, auto, and steel. The story…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Hezbollah in Context w/ Joseph Daher
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative discusses ankle bracelets and electronic monitoring. Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Powerful Personalities
On the second episode of Organized the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, we discuss the institutional formation of the CIO and meet some of the organization’s…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Argentina's New President w/ Jacqueline Behrend
Political scientist Jacqueline Behrend examines Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei. Then Benjamin Fong, author of Quick Fixes, talks about Americans’…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Very Important People w/ Ashley Mears
Featuring Ashley Mears on her book Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit. Mears, a sociologist and former fashion model…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Meet Me in Helsinki
Your coworkers are spying on you. Your boss won't let you keep the expired food. The coffeeshop is charging you an arm and a leg to rent a laptop. In Aki…
Jacobin RadioOrganize the Unorganized: Under the Blue Eagle
On episode one of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, we explore the conditions that led to the founding of the Congress of Industrial…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: The Trial w/ Boris Kagarlitsky
Suzi talks to Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian left intellectual writer-activist, just two weeks after he won his release from over four months in pre-trial custody…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Year in Labor w/ Alex Press
Samuel Moyn, law professor and historian, discusses the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot. Labor journalist Alex…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Biden's Vietnam w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
This is another special episode of Long Reads looking at Israel’s war on Gaza. Our focus today is on the politics of the Biden administration and its backing…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: We Invented Chill!
We kick off 2024 by raiding the fridge for some holiday leftovers. It's become an annual tradition on this podcast to try to extract ideology from Tim Allen's…
Jacobin RadioIntroducing... Organize the Unorganized
There have been many moments of labor upsurge in America: the influx of members into the Knights of Labor in 1886, the dramatic growth of unions during and…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: Grassroots Democracy in Latin America w/ Gabriel Hetland
Gabriel Hetland has just published his study of populist experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia, Democracy on the Ground, showing the complexity of implementing…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire's Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted by…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Gun Kata
If society outlawed emotions, could we stop all war and conflict? This is the very, very stupid question at the heart of EQUILIBRIUM (2002), the dystopian…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Far-Right Resurgence in Argentina w/ Forrest Hylton
Environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt analyzes the recently concluded COP28 environmental summit, where limited good intentions were uttered and oil contracts…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: The Flemish Revolutions w/ Jan Dumolyn
If anyone thinks about medieval Flanders today, it’s most likely because they have an interest in the art of painters like Bruegel and Rubens. But Flanders…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Israel's Motives in Gaza w/ Joel Schalit
Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, discusses what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza. Amy Schiller, author of The…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: A Whiff of Grapeshot
The French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte have inspired a lot of takes... so, of course, you can depend on Ridley Scott to find the least…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 2 w/ Shaul Magid
Featuring Shaul Magid on post-1948 Jewish Zionism and Jewish anti-Zionism—including today's new generation of young, militant, left-wing, anti-Zionist American…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Ratings War
In the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War, HBO made a movie about the lead-up to the first Gulf War, from the perspective of its most important factor: CNN. In LIVE…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Gaza in Global Context w/ Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi discusses the global context of the Gaza war. James Bamford, author of a recent article for The Nation, investigates how Israel spies on US…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: A Confederated State Solution? w/ Omer Bartov
Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, spoke with Israeli historian and Genocide Studies scholar Omer Bartov at a public forum…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Zionism vs. Anti-Zionism Ep. 1 w/ Shaul Magid
Featuring Shaul Magid on the long history of Jewish Zionism and its antagonist, Jewish anti-Zionism. Defenders of Israel defame anti-Zionists as antisemites…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: The Gaza Massacre w/ Bashir Abu-Manneh
The estimated number of Palestinians killed or missing in the occupied territories since this war began is now 24,000 people — twenty times as many Israelis as…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: A Prurient Interest
Ed Harris is a senator with presidential ambitions. Diane Keaton is the love of his life, but uncomfortable in politics. And with the White House in his grasp…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Marx for Cats w/ Leigh Claire La Berge
Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats, talks about political economy and the human–feline relationship. Then an interview with Michael Zweig, author…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Killers of the Flower Moon
The old saying goes that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." But it helps if the men are very, very stupid. We…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
Featuring Mohammed el-Kurd on Palestine. A short but expansive interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletters and vast archives at…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Global Palestine Politics Ep. 2 w/ Richard Seymour
Featuring Richard Seymour on the global politics of the Palestinian struggle and Israel’s war on Gaza. The *second* of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Inside the Mind of an “Ecoterrorist” w/ Christopher Ketcham
Christopher Ketcham, author of this Harper's article, gives us a look inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”. Neve Gordon discusses what dynamics in…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Class Struggle in Medieval England w/ Dominic Alexander
For centuries, the English Peasants’ Revolt in 1381 only appeared in the historical record through bitterly hostile sources. Medieval chroniclers like…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Global Palestine Politics Ep. 1 w/ Richard Seymour
Featuring Richard Seymour on the global politics of the Palestinian struggle and Israel's war on Gaza. The first of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Gaza, Ukraine, and the US w/ Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven discusses the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of United States power. Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of a recent…
Jacobin RadioJacobin Radio: The UAW Strike Victory w/ Nelson Lichtenstein
Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein returns to Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman to talk about the Tentative Agreements (TAs) the United Auto Workers (UAW)…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: The Dinosaur Hour
What if Britain's notorious right-wing GB News channel gave fading comedy hero and current "anti-woke" nuisance John Cleese a weekly show to do whatever he…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: J. Edgar Hoover's America w/ Beverly Gage
Featuring Beverly Gage on her masterful biography G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht. The Dig is an…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Palestinian Citizens of Israel w/ Amjad Iraqi
Amjad Iraqi talks about what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel—and what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza. Georgi Derluguian, author of a…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Nosferatu, the Wrath of Pod
For the week of Halloween, we offer a fond nod of the hat to our old, old friend Count Dracula by discussing NOSFERATU, PHANTOM DER NACHT (1979). And because…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Palestine and the New McCarthyism w/ Rashid Khalidi
This is another special episode of Long Reads about Israel’s war on Gaza. Dan spoke to Rashid Khalidi, one of the leading historians of modern Palestine, on…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Catastrophe in Gaza w/ Rami Khouri
Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza. Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, talks…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Hamas w/ Tareq Baconi
Featuring Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. This is the context we need. And it is precisely what mainstream discourse mystifies, denies, and disavows…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: UAW's Strategy w/ Stephanie Ross
Stephanie Ross outlines the UAW’s innovative strike strategy against the Big Three automakers. Christopher Morten and Amy Kapczynski discuss how corporate…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: Palestine Teach-In
This episode is The Dig's Palestine Teach-In. The most informative clips from our archives on Palestine and Israel. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Citizen of the World
With the crisis in Gaza on our minds, we spend a little time with one of the most acclaimed Palestinian filmmakers, Elia Suleiman, and his lovely film IT MUST…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: War on Gaza w/ Noura Erakat & Arielle Angel
Featuring Noura Erakat and Arielle Angel on the apartheid system and the violence it drives in Palestine. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Preventing a New Nakba w/ Bashir Abu-Manneh
This is a special episode of Long Reads that we’ve recorded because of the war in Gaza. Dan speaks with Palestinian academic Bashir Abu-Manneh about the…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: The Missing Revolution w/ Vincent Bevins
Featuring Vincent Bevins on If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. The second of a two-part interview on this important new book…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Gaza Siege w/ Haggai Matar
Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, discusses a decade of protest movements that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse…
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Kenya's Haiti Mission
Two views of Haiti in light of the UN’s approval of the deployment of a Kenyan-led mission to control gang violence there: Jake Johnston of the Center for…
Jacobin RadioThe Dig: If We Burn w/ Vincent Bevins
Featuring Vincent Bevins on If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. The first of a two-part interview on this important new book…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: I Heart New Wave
In DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN (1987), Charles Bronson wages a one-man war against the Los Angeles drug trade, despite being as old-looking as anyone has ever…
Jacobin RadioLong Reads: Padmore's Pan-African Marxism w/ Theo Williams
For most of the twentieth century, Trinidad and Tobago had a population of fewer than a million people. But this Caribbean nation made an outsized contribution…
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Wheatfield with Crows
Late in his career, Akira Kurosawa plumbed his subconscious and came up with DREAMS (1990), one of his most underrated films. We discuss the ways that this…