Behind the News: We Need Robots Working More So We Can Work Less
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, authors of Inventing the Future, on getting beyond folk politics to a world where robots work more and people (supported by a universal basic income) work less.
00:52:02 |
Fri 07 Apr 2017
The ABCs: Isn't the US Already Kind of Socialist?
You’ve probably seen the memes purporting to show just how socialist the United States already is by listing a bunch of government programs, services, and agencies. The idea that any government activ…
00:44:25 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
The Dig: Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare Is Great and We Need More of It
Medicaid expansion saved Obamacare from repeal. There’s a lot to hate about Obamacare, but that expansion did something very good on a very large scale — and it made just enough Republicans very nerv…
01:20:30 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
Behind the News: Jodi Dean on Populism and Jane McAlevey on Real Organizing
Doug Henwood interviews Jodi Dean on why the temptations of populism should be resisted, and Jane McAlevey, author of No Shortcuts, on real organizing, not fake organizing.
00:52:11 |
Mon 03 Apr 2017
Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Adam Curtis: The Left Must Present an Alternative Vision
Suzi Weissman interviews documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis on why the Left has to present a compelling, alternative vision of a better future — or it's doomed.
00:25:46 |
Fri 31 Mar 2017
The ABCs: Is Socialism Just a Western, Eurocentric Concept?
Socialism is in the air. But the idea of socialism is under attack—and not only from the Right. Within the Left itself, there is suspicion of an ideal many view as single-mindedly focused on economic…
00:43:13 |
Wed 29 Mar 2017
The Dig: Corey Robin on the Reactionaries' Minds Under Trump
What a moment to read, or to re-read, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, political scientist Corey Robin’s 2011 collection of essays — especially if you need to disa…
01:12:09 |
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Behind the News: Yanis Varoufakis on Europe's Crises
Doug Henwood interviews the former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis, discussing the interminable euro crisis, austerity, Brexit, the nationalist international (Trump, Le Pen, etc.), and DiE…
00:53:38 |
Fri 24 Mar 2017
The Dig: The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump
The Democratic Socialists of America are growing — suddenly and explosively. Last June ahead of the Democratic National Convention, DSA counted 6,500 members. Today, after a presidential bid from a s…
01:17:03 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Behind the News: The Fight for Single Payer and What's Next After the Women's Strike
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting journalist and author Doug Henwood’s show Behind the News on Jacobin Radio.In addition to writing a number of excellent books and many articles on fin…
00:52:30 |
Wed 22 Mar 2017
Kool AD on Art, Capitalism, and Why Marx Would've Been a Great Rapper
Since leaving the joke-rap/not-joke-rap group Das Racist in 2012, Victor Vasquez, AKA Kool AD, has stayed busy. His many artistic endeavors—music, visual art, a novel, and even a kids book ('The Self…
00:42:00 |
Sat 18 Mar 2017
Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Mike Davis on Trump, the Democrats, and the Working Class
Suzi Weissman interviews longtime Marxist writer Mike Davis on the questions facing the Left in the wake of Donald Trump's victory. How did Hillary Clinton and Democrats lose this election so badly? …
00:35:37 |
Fri 17 Mar 2017
The ABCs: Does Human Nature Make Socialism Impossible? with Adaner Usmani
Sure, the concept of socialism sounds nice, but people aren’t very nice, right? Isn’t capitalism much more suited to human nature — a nature dominated by competitiveness and venality? Isn't socialism…
00:40:06 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
The Dig: What the Media Doesn't Get About the Left, with Dave Weigel
On the Left, few forms of mainstream journalism are more detested than political reporting. It often substitutes the horse race for substance, dresses up conventional inside-the-Beltway wisdom as rea…
01:08:52 |
Tue 14 Mar 2017
The ABCs: Why Do Socialists Care So Much About Workers? with Vivek Chibber
Socialists put the working class at the center of their political vision. But why, exactly?Vivek Chibber, Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of Postcolonial Theory and the S…
00:42:33 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
The Dig: Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump, with Charlene Carruthers
The Movement for Black Lives’ insistence that black lives matter is deceptively straightforward and minimal. But it has transformed black politics, and American politics as a whole. From the tension …
01:02:22 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
Stockton to Malone #2: White Privilege vs. Obama's Jordans
Episode 2 of Stockton to Malone. No interview here, just RL and Micah discussing RL's performance of the socialist equivalent of Kendrick Lamar's "Control" at the Young Democratic Socialists conferen…
00:32:39 |
Thu 02 Mar 2017
The Dig: Marie Gottschalk on Mass Incarceration and Trump's Carceral State
Mass incarceration should be central to any analysis of American political economy. It's also a moral monstrosity. But before The New Jim Crow and anti-mass incarceration activists across the country…
00:56:29 |
Wed 01 Mar 2017
Matt Karp and Eric Foner on US Slaveholders' Foreign Policy
American slaveholders before the Civil War oversaw an incredibly brutal economic system that generated enormous wealth for a tiny elite while denying enslaved Africans the most basic rights. But they…
00:42:46 |
Mon 27 Feb 2017
The Promise and Pitfalls of Fighting Trump
The horrors of the Trump administration have shown no signs of slowing in the month he has been in office. But so far, neither has the pushback we've seen in the streets. The protests have reminded E…
00:31:13 |
Fri 24 Feb 2017
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