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69 minutes
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1735
Years Active
2017 - 2025
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Austerity Created the 'Joker' with Connor Kilpatrick

Austerity Created the 'Joker' with Connor Kilpatrick

'Joker' is not an ode to the alt right. It is a film about the devastating consequences of austerity. This is an objective fact, which I spoke with Jacobin story editor Connor Kilpatrick about.
You …
00:37:41  |   Tue 15 Oct 2019
The Dig: Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch

The Dig: Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch

Dan interviews Alex Gourevitch about how 19th century US labor radicals remade the idea of freedom into a principle of working-class social transformation.

If you want more on the debate over Lexit, w…

02:30:20  |   Fri 11 Oct 2019
Jacobin Radio: UAW Strike; Green New Deal

Jacobin Radio: UAW Strike; Green New Deal

Suzi talks to UCSB Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein about the ongoing UAW strike against General Motors, the first strike since 2007, with 50,000 workers on the picket lines. Lichtenstein shares h…
00:48:52  |   Tue 08 Oct 2019
Behind the News: Impeachment; Sanders's Climate Plan

Behind the News: Impeachment; Sanders's Climate Plan

Samuel Moyn (author of this article and this) on the political snares of impeachment. Then, Tom Athanasiou on the Sanders climate plan and the need for a global Green New Deal (article here)
00:52:01  |   Fri 04 Oct 2019
The Dig: Palestine and the Law with Noura Erakat

The Dig: Palestine and the Law with Noura Erakat

Dan interviews Noura Erakat, the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, a new book that analyzes the history of settler-colonialism in Palestine and the Palestinian struggle f…

02:08:50  |   Fri 04 Oct 2019
The Vast Majority:

The Vast Majority: "War Is A Racket" with Rory Fanning and Sarah Lazare

Our newest print issue is “War Is a Racket,” focused on war and imperialism. At the Chicago issue release party, I spoke with two organizers and writers who appear in the issue: Rory Fanning and Sara…
00:58:33  |   Tue 01 Oct 2019
Behind the News: Israeli Elections; Justin Trudeau

Behind the News: Israeli Elections; Justin Trudeau

Joel Schalit, co-founder and editor of The Battleground, on the Israeli election. Then, Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, on that slippery Canadian prime minister.
00:51:55  |   Mon 30 Sep 2019
The Dig: Ayn Rand's Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan

The Dig: Ayn Rand's Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan

Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don't have to read Rand's work yourself. Mean Girl: Ayn Ra…

01:53:28  |   Fri 27 Sep 2019
Behind the News: UAW Strike; Slavery in the Early United States

Behind the News: UAW Strike; Slavery in the Early United States

Sam Gindin on the UAW’s strike against GM, and the possibilities for the green repurposing of a plant GM is abandoning. Then, Robin Einhorn on the role of slavery in shaping tax politics in the early…
00:51:54  |   Mon 23 Sep 2019
The Dig: The Class Politics of Suburban Racism with Matt Lassiter

The Dig: The Class Politics of Suburban Racism with Matt Lassiter

The history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveal the class power underpinning both racism and the demolition of the New Deal order. Dan interviews Matt Lassi…

02:10:21  |   Fri 20 Sep 2019
The Vast Majority:

The Vast Majority: "West Virginia Isn't Just Trump Country" with Cathy Kunkel

As we trudge closer to 2020, candidates are emerging for elected office beyond the presidency. And, thank God, they don't all suck. Like Cathy Kunkel, who is running for Congress in West Virginia's s…
00:21:47  |   Thu 19 Sep 2019
Jacobin Radio: Paul Mason and George Kerevan on Brexit

Jacobin Radio: Paul Mason and George Kerevan on Brexit

Suzi talks to Paul Mason on Brexit and George Kerevan on Brexit in Scotland — to unravel the complexities and many political-economic ramifications of the issue. The Brexit crisis is as consuming for…
00:55:06  |   Tue 17 Sep 2019
Behind the News: Brexit; Slavery

Behind the News: Brexit; Slavery

Margaret Corvid, city councilor in Plymouth, England, on Boris Johnson and Brexit madness. Then, John Clegg on slavery’s profound effects on the US political structure.
00:51:55  |   Mon 16 Sep 2019
The Dig: Silvia Federici on Women and Capitalism

The Dig: Silvia Federici on Women and Capitalism

Dan interviewed legendary feminist scholar Silvia Federici on Caliban and the Witch at her Brooklyn apartment. Next year, he'll make a return trip to discuss Wages for Housework.

Here's the article on…

02:08:29  |   Sat 14 Sep 2019
The Dig: Black Socialism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism with Michael Dawson

The Dig: Black Socialism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism with Michael Dawson

Dan discusses the history of black politics in the US—left, nationalist, liberal, and neoliberal—with Michael Dawson.

Check out New Dawn, Michael's podcast on race and capitalism: https://podcasts.app…

01:45:12  |   Fri 06 Sep 2019
The Vast Majority:

The Vast Majority: "We Need A Green New Deal For Housing" with Daniel Aldana Cohen

We need a Green New Deal to stop climate catastrophe. Everybody knows this. But housing has to be a key piece of the GND, as Daniel Aldana Cohen argues in the Spring 2019 issue of Jacobin on housing.
00:38:36  |   Thu 05 Sep 2019
Behind the News: Moscow Protests; Amazon on Fire

Behind the News: Moscow Protests; Amazon on Fire

Journalist Yasha Levine on the “democracy” demos in Moscow: for a flossier neoliberalism. Then, Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice…
00:51:55  |   Tue 03 Sep 2019
Behind the News: Hong Kong and Kashmir

Behind the News: Hong Kong and Kashmir

Writer Brian Hioe updates us on the Hong Kong protests. Then, Kavita Krishnan, secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA), on India’s ongoing crackdown in Kashmir

00:51:54  |   Fri 30 Aug 2019
The Vast Majority:

The Vast Majority: "It's the Demand of the People That Creates Real Change" with Heidi Sloan

Heidi Sloan is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America running for Congress in Texas's 25th district. She's challenging a Republican incumbent, used car salesman, and incredibly rich person …
00:40:31  |   Thu 29 Aug 2019
The Dig: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Indigenous History

The Dig: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Indigenous History

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people's history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible futures.

Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge sele…

01:27:35  |   Wed 28 Aug 2019
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