The Dig: Barbara Ransby on Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter is a poignant slogan and a powerful force for social transformation. It’s also shorthand for a huge array of organizations, mostly led by people that you've never heard of, working…
Jacobin Radio: Fires Raging in California
The Dig: A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn Slobodian
Neoliberalism: we all hate it, but what does it mean? Dan talks to intellectual historian Quinn Slobodian about his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which tells the …
The Dig: The Roots of White Power Violence With Kathleen Belew
The man who carried out the massacre in Pittsburgh was motivated by a belief that Jewish people were conspiring to destroy the white race by way of orchestrating mass immigration. It's a conspiracy t…
Jacobin Radio: Bolsanaro in Power
Behind the News: Trans Politics; Fascist Bolsonaro
The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Life of Howard Zinn
Historian Howard Zinn remains a model for left-wing intellectuals who want to not only convey ideas to a public beyond academia but also take action to transform the world that it is their profession…
The Dig: Madawi al-Rasheed on Saudi Royal Brutality
The brutality of the Saudi royal family had been hiding in plain sight. It was an open secret convenient to the political, media and business elites for whom the Kingdom means big business and an inv…
The Dig: The Color of Economic Anxiety
Recently, Dan spoke to Nikhil Pal Singh about the unfortunate and never-ending debate over whether it was economics or racism that got Trump elected. This is a sequel to that discussion: because what…
The Dig: Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, a Socialist for Chicago
Jacobin Managing Editor Micah Uetricht pulls Dave-Davies-duty for Dan and interviews Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez, a DSA member running for alderwoman in Chicago. Rodríguez-Sanchez moved to Chicago from…
The Dig: Economics Discounting Climate Catastrophe. REPOSTED.
CORRECT EPISODE NOW POSTED. Today's episode is on the alarming new report out from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and how it is that William Nordhaus — an economist who…
Jacobin Radio: On Two Upcoming Elections
A look at two forthcoming elections: the November midterms in California, and the second round of Brazil’s general election on Oct 28. Gustavo Arrellano of Orange County, author of Ask a Mexican and …
Behind the News: German Politics; Why the Supreme Court Sucks
The Dig: Explaining Brazil's Crisis with Alfredo Saad-Filho
Brazil is headed toward fascism by way of Jair Bolsonaro, a sexist, homophobic, and violent militarist clown nostalgic for a murderous dictatorship. How did this happen? Alfredo Saad-Filho, a profess…
The Dig: Sawant on Socialism Against the Amazonification of Seattle
Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant was elected to Seattle City Council way before socialism became a cool thing. Today, Dan's talking to Sawant about how socialists can build power and win at the …
The Dig: Reasonable Men Calming You Down with Moira Weigel
Today, we’re addressing one of the most obnoxious corners of the identity politics debate. And that is the corner occupied by Right Liberals who believe that any desire to change the world is a divis…
The Dig: Lessons from the New Left with Max Elbaum
Let’s ensure that the history of American socialism doesn’t repeat as farce. That’s one reason that Max Elbaum wrote Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, an account of …
Jacobin Radio: Brett Kavanaugh's Banal, Reactionary Mind
The Dig: Lisa Duggan on the Open Secret of Sexual Assault
Christine Blasey Ford and other women have revealed that our political-economic elite is pervaded by profound intimate violence, forms of brutal interpersonal domination that are the everyday and mic…