The Dig: The Origins of the Opioid Crisis with Leo Beletsky
The drug war is a cause of, not solution to, the overdose crisis. Law and public health scholar @LeoBeletsky explains the origins of the opioid overdose crisis and how drug prohibition, policing, int…
01:40:17 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
The Dig: Bonus Episode, Alex Vitale v. Heather Mac Donald
We’ve got a bonus episode for you today, which is audio from a debate between Alex Vitale — a recent guest on this show, sociologist and author of The End of Policing — and Heather Mac Donald, one of…
01:17:51 |
Tue 28 Nov 2017
Behind the News: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee returns to the show to discuss Red Hangover, her new book on the traumas of post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. Unique for an academic text, the book is a series of es…
00:51:59 |
Mon 27 Nov 2017
The Dig: A Monstrous Tax Plan That Might Fail with Arthur Delaney
The GOP tax plan is a monstrous giveaway to corporate America but it might not pass thanks to the same contradictions within the Republican coalition that repeatedly sunk efforts to repeal Obamacare,…
00:32:11 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
The Dig: The Reality of Central American Migration with Noelle Brigden
Trump's demagogic rhetoric on MS-13 is designed to obscure the truth about the reality and origins of mass Central American migration: the roots of migration from Central America lie in significant p…
01:04:49 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: An Autopsy on the Democratic Party; Sexual Harassment and Inequality
Norman Solomon on the findings of a recently released report he co-authored, "Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis." It examines the continuing crises within the Democratic Party with the aim of s…
00:53:49 |
Mon 20 Nov 2017
The Dig: DSA Kicking Ass with Lee Carter and David Duhalde
Last week was a bad week for Republicans and a good week for Democrats — and for democratic socialists. It’s now pretty clear that Republicans will pay a price for the fact that large numbers of Amer…
00:41:08 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Behind the News: From Offshore Wealth Rackets to Municipal Socialism
Brooke Harrington, author of Capital Without Borders, on the offshore wealth racket and the Paradise Papers. Then Kali Akuno, co-editor of Jackson Rising and a co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, on b…
00:51:58 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
The Dig: A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the R…
01:06:43 |
Wed 15 Nov 2017
The Dig: Don't Criminalize Sex Work with Melissa Gira Grant
Journalist @melissagira eviscerates a newspaper investigation that conflates sex work with trafficking. She examines how reporters unwittingly fall into a savior complex, which ends up criminalizing …
00:57:40 |
Sat 11 Nov 2017
Behind the News: Rich People Problems
The Intercept's Ryan Grim on the the state of the GOP, which despite recent losses in this week's elections, controls all three branches of the federal government and is currently trying to pass a ta…
00:52:03 |
Fri 10 Nov 2017
Behind the News: McMansion Hell and Genteel Neo-Nazis
Kate Wagner of McMansion Hell on those abominable things dotting the American landscape. Then, Donna Minkowitz, author of this article, reports on her visit to the genteel white supremacists of AmRen…
00:51:56 |
Wed 08 Nov 2017
The Dig: The Hollow Center with Molly Ball and Eric Levitz
Centrist business elites believe in an America that doesn't exist. Two guests this episode: first, @mollyesque talks about her piece "On Safari in Trump's America" for The Atlantic. Her article follo…
01:20:47 |
Wed 08 Nov 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Keeping Up with Catalonia and Democratic Party Debates
Writer and author Andy Durgan discusses the fast-moving events taking place in Catalonia. This past week, Catalonia declared independence, and the Spanish government is moving quickly to repress the …
00:41:43 |
Mon 06 Nov 2017
The Dig: Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck
Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been the growing centrality of real estate for urban eco…
00:33:43 |
Fri 03 Nov 2017
The Dig: Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana discusses his pivotal book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Rana overturns conventional accounts of American history, from settlement and Revolution to the Populists and the present day.…
01:09:38 |
Wed 01 Nov 2017
Behind the News: The Far Right Rises in Austria; A Hybrid Argument Against Rent-Seeking
Benjamin Opratko, a fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin who teaches at the University of Vienna, on the rise of the far right in Austria. On Sunday, October 16, Austria held elections, and the tw…
00:52:03 |
Mon 30 Oct 2017
The Dig: Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment
The exposure of Weinstein's predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in the workplace. Jacobin editor @alexnpress discusses t…
00:32:26 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
The Dig: Trump's Reactionary Mind with Corey Robin
Corey Robin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined by political and military distinction and another …
01:02:07 |
Wed 25 Oct 2017
The Dig Bonus: Ending the War on Drug Dealers
Dan was on a panel last week on ending the war on drug dealers at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Atlanta. The panel was moderated by asha bandele and included Daryl Atkinson, Constanza Sánche…
01:08:34 |
Mon 23 Oct 2017
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