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Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.

Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis…

David Edgerton joins Long Reads for a discussion about the making of the modern British nation. David is a professor at King’s College London, where his work concentrates on twentieth-century history…

Economist Ramaa Vasudevan explains the causes and consequences of inflation from a socialist perspective. Natalie Shure looks at the growing discontent with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on…

Doug speaks with Toronto-based activist and organizer John Clarke on the politics and personnel behind the Ottawa convoy. Plus: Dave Zirin on racism in the NFL (and Brian Flores’s lawsuit over it) an…

In another Superdelegate-selected episode, we discuss THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996), the hagiographic biopic of the Hustler Magazine publisher and First Amendment warrior. We discuss Flynt's poli…

Feminist political theorist and organizer Verónica Gago on Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labor and financial exploitation, neoliberalism from below, an…

Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison sickens and kills people. Then Terry Kupers, from a 2013 interview, on the effects of solitary confinement on mental healt…

Ariella Thornhill speaks with John Nichols about his new book, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers. Nichols argues that the massive number of deaths in the US were caused not by the vicissi…

Grace speaks with Laurie Penny about their new book, Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback. They discuss the roots of the resurgence of violence against women, what it means to…

What happens when the UK's Minister for International Development accidentally calls an inevitable war "unforeseeable"? We discuss Armando Iannucci's beloved political satire IN THE LOOP (2009) and w…

John Foot joins Long Reads for a discussion about Italy from the era of partisan resistance to the current predicament of "post-democracy"—and a resurgent right wing. John is professor of modern Ital…

Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.

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Professor Vivek Chibber discusses his new book, The Class Matrix, and the role that culture plays (and doesn’t play) in keeping workers from overturning an exploitative capitalist system. Paul Presco…

Olúfẹmi Táíwò guest hosts an interview with Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Con…

Jacobin contributor Leigh Phillips discusses how an NGO-dominated environmental movement ended up alienating unions, what constitutes a "just transition," and why organized labor must be at the cente…

This week, Grace talks to Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò about his two new books, Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else). They discuss what "i…