The Dig: Real Sanctuary Means Ending Mass Policing with Kade Crockford
Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority countries, and those nations he deems "shitholes…
00:46:00 |
Sun 25 Mar 2018
The Dig: MLK, Political Philosopher
Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry talk about their new book, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. King is often remembered for his soaring oratory. But…
01:18:14 |
Wed 21 Mar 2018
Behind the News: What's Wrong With UBI, and Xi Jinping's Presidency for Life
John Clarke of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty on what’s wrong with a universal basic income (UBI), a proposal that's become increasingly popular among part of the Left and the Right. Then, Isa…
00:51:48 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
The Dig: Lamb Is Not Enough. Three Leftist Women Run in PA
Democrat Conor Lamb's victory is a rebuke of Republicans. But Lamb is far from an ideal candidate, and so the race also raises a perennial debate between the left and liberal center over what kind of…
00:55:56 |
Sat 17 Mar 2018
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Teacher Strikes and Trump v. California
Are we on the cusp of a new wave of worker militancy? We talk to Rebecca Cohen and Shaun Richman about the victory of West Virginia teachers (and public sector workers) and the coming Oklahoma strike…
00:50:36 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
The Dig: the State of Labor with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant
In West Virginia, a focal point of Trump-era liberal armchair ethnography, teachers have won a historic state-wide strike just as the Supreme Court is poised to rule in Janus, a case that will mark t…
01:16:44 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
The Dig: Gun Culture is Neoliberalism with Patrick Blanchfield
Neoliberal culture expects little from government and everything from plucky individuals — including, apparently, the self-sacrificing courage to charge an AR-15 wielding gunman while your classmates…
01:03:40 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
The Dig: Gun Culture and Masculinity in an Age of Decline
How does gun culture get built from the ground up? What are the everyday politics of guns? Sociologist Jennifer Carlson does ethnographic fieldwork that provides answers to these questions, showing h…
00:51:23 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
Behind the News: Liza Featherstone on the Meaning of the Focus Group
Liza Featherstone, author of Divining Desire, on the history and meaning of focus groups [disclosure alert: Featherstone is the host’s wife].
00:52:17 |
Mon 05 Mar 2018
The Dig: Nomiki Konst on the Fight Inside the Democratic Party
Nomiki Konst, a correspondent for The Young Turks and Sanders appointee to the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, talks about the Berniecrat struggle against a corrupt neoliberal establishment to democra…
00:41:08 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
The Dig: Glenn Greenwald on Surveillance Hypocrisy Amid Russiagate Mania
Did the "Woke Blacks" Instagram account really cost Clinton the election? Glenn Greenwald returns to the show to ask basic but rarely asked questions about the troll army’s presumed efficacy, explain…
01:08:07 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Robert Brenner on the Economy
On this “podcast-versary” of the premiere of Jacobin Radio – one year since her first podcast, Suzi Weissman invites Robert Brenner back for another extended conversation on the state of the economy,…
00:50:24 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
The Dig: It’s Iron Stache
Dan talks to Randy Bryce, the Berniecrat ironworker taking on Paul Ryan, about how he plans to knockout the House Speaker, Scott Walker’s decimation of unions, and Foxconn’s con against the people of…
00:33:26 |
Wed 21 Feb 2018
The Dig: Aziz Rana on the Cold War’s Late Demise
What if the Cold War only just ended in November 2016, as Donald Trump grotesquely encircled and then captured the presidency, finding it, to his surprise, unguarded? The Cold War proper, of course, …
02:22:45 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Behind the News: The Right on the Offense
Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University David Palumbo-Liu on the right-wing attacks on him and the question of academic freedom. The Stanford Politics article on the Thiel network …
00:52:01 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Behind the News: Our Chaotic, Militarized Present
Doug Henwood on stock market madness (longer version is here). Then Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, joins Doug to talk about the military and intelligence roots of the internet, which li…
00:51:52 |
Tue 13 Feb 2018
The Dig: Frances Fox Piven on Why Movements Matter
Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, clear-eyed analysis of just what the title suggests.…
01:30:05 |
Wed 07 Feb 2018
The Dig: Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence
The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that discipline and control those most exploited and exclud…
00:46:21 |
Sat 03 Feb 2018
The Dig: Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselv…
01:41:12 |
Wed 31 Jan 2018
Behind the News: Trump and the Global Left; Feminism and Economics
Author Vijay Prashad, professor of international studies at Trinity College, on Syria, Trump, and the state of the global left. Then, Jennifer Cohen, assistant professor of international studies at M…
00:52:03 |
Tue 30 Jan 2018
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