Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: One Hundred Years Since October
Suzi Weissman switches seats with Robert Brenner: she is the guest and he does the interviewing. The program begins with a talk Suzi gave recently in Berkeley: "One Hundred Years Since October: When …
00:47:40 |
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Behind the News: From the Chinese Communist Party Congress to US Policing
Isabel Hilton, editor of ChinaDialogue.net, discusses recent developments at the Chinese Communist Party Congress. Then, Doug is joined by Alex Vitale, author The End of Policing, who addresses how w…
00:52:00 |
Mon 23 Oct 2017
The Dig: Let's Elect Left Candidates with Joe Dinkin
Since Bernie Sanders's success in the 2016 Democratic primary, much of the Left, from progressive Democrats to socialists, has had its sights set on something we had long at least implicitly assumed …
01:04:23 |
Fri 20 Oct 2017
The Dig: We must end policing as we know it with Alex Vitale
In his new book The End of Policing Brooklyn College sociologist @avitale makes the case that technocratic reforms won't fix American policing. In reality, we can only fix policing by ending the carc…
01:03:50 |
Wed 18 Oct 2017
Behind the News: Yanis Varoufakis on Adults in the Room.
An extended interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on his new book, Adults in the Room, the story of his surreal negotiations with Greece’s creditors
00:52:04 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
The Dig: Matt Christman Rants, Raves, and Ruminates.
Chapo went on The Dig. Dan talks to@cushbombabout optimism, pessimism, Manitowoc, reptilians, why the internet might be mostly bad, and Dan’s personal connection to the PizzaGate coverup. Toss us som…
01:08:59 |
Wed 11 Oct 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
<font size="4">Suzi Weissman talks to</font><font size="4">Einde O’Callaghan, a teacher and member of Die Linke, about Germany’s recent election, in which the far-right AfD gained 94 seats in Parliam…
00:43:38 |
Tue 10 Oct 2017
The Dig: Let's Keep the Political Revolution In Motion with Nina Turner
Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner talks about being horrified by Trump, why single-payer is suddenly hot among likely 2020 Democratic contenders, and the work that Our Revolution is doing nationw…
00:34:26 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
The Dig: Beware Carceral Gun Control
Prevailing debate obscures the fact that we already have a form of gun control in the United States. As legal scholar Ben Levin explains, the problem is that it’s a form of gun control that is mostly…
00:54:56 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
Behind the News: Politics from Germany to Puerto Rico to Today's Punk Scene
First, author Joel Schalit explores the rise of the right in Germany. Then, Professor Marisol LeBrón talks about the role of debt and austerity in impairing Puerto Rico's hurricane recovery. And fina…
00:51:56 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
The Dig: Bonus Episode with Larry Krasner's Full Interview
Here's Dan's full interview with civil rights attorney and Democratic nominee for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. You heard some of it yesterday on the first in a four-part series on ma…
00:57:45 |
Thu 05 Oct 2017
The Dig: The Story Behind America's Mass Incarceration Experiment, Part One
In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn't have been more wrong. Interviews with Clear, formerly incarcerated poet and leg…
01:04:15 |
Wed 04 Oct 2017
Behind the News: Party Politics in Germany and the UK
Journalist Lukas Hermsmeier on German politics after the recent election, which saw a breakthrough for the AfD, a far-right party, the first to have seats in the German Bundestag since the Nazi era. …
00:51:28 |
Mon 02 Oct 2017
The Dig: Marisol LeBrón & Brandy Jensen: Puerto Rico, Austerian Disaster; Roy Moore, Perfect Republican
Today’s Diglet is not really diminutive at all. Dan has two interviews with two separate guests because too much has happened over the past few weeks and there are too many smart people to analyze it…
01:09:58 |
Fri 29 Sep 2017
The Dig: The War on Terror Made Trump's Islamophobia A Reality with Khaled Beydoun
Islamophobia is conventionally regarded as racist and bigoted views about Muslims expressed by ignorant individuals, including the one who somehow became president. But legal and critical race schola…
01:03:00 |
Wed 27 Sep 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Urban Politics from Barcelona to Chicago
We look at urban politics from Barcelona to Chicago with Isidro Lopez, PodemosMember of Parliament in Madrid, and Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association. I…
00:38:29 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
The Dig: What Happened Is Not About What Actually Happened
For this Diglet, Dan and Eve Peyser discuss What Happened, Hillary Clinton's new book. Eve also talks about spending time with Jill Stein recently, and argues that it's wrongheaded to blame Stein for…
00:36:59 |
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Behind the News: Andrew Cockburn on Saudi Arabia and 9/11, Asad Haider on Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark Lilla, and identity
Andrew Cockburn, author of this article, on the Saudi involvement in 9/11 • Asad Haider, author of this article, on identity, Mark Lilla, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:52:11 |
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Behind the News: Chris Sims on school reform and techno-fetishism, Christian Parenti on climate changes
September 7, 2017 Christo Sims, author of Disruptive Fixation, on school reform and techno-fetishism • Christian Parenti, author of this article, on climate change and the threat to coastal cities.
00:51:55 |
Wed 20 Sep 2017
The Dig: Stephen Wertheim: Trump's Unexceptional America
Trump is normal in more ways than people care to admit, but he is different in that he parts from the bedrock ideology of American exceptionalism that has governed this country from its violent found…
01:02:09 |
Wed 20 Sep 2017
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