Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Drug War in Mexico with Anabel Hernández
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is on trial in New York. After twice making his way out of Mexican prisons, he was ex…
7 years, 5 months ago
Populism’s Power
Democracy is the proposition that the people should govern themselves. But who are the people, and how should they govern? Populist movements attempt…
7 years, 5 months ago
LA Teachers Strike with Sarah Jaffe
The teacher strike wave continues as more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles walk picket lines not only for the higher wages that the…
7 years, 5 months ago
Astra Taylor on Democracy
Jacobin editor Alyssa Battistoni interviews Astra Taylor on her new film What is Democracy?, in which Astra asks ordinary people and political philos…
7 years, 5 months ago
Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana
Typically, people think about migration as immigration: people crossing international borders from one nation-state to another. And for the past half…
7 years, 6 months ago
Family Values with Melinda Cooper
Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case that neolibe…
7 years, 6 months ago
The Green New Deal with Kate Aronoff
Trump and fossil-fueled conservatives have pit working-class prosperity against environmentalism. This, of course, is incredibly dangerous. It's also…
7 years, 6 months ago
Crashed with Adam Tooze
Historian Adam Tooze, the author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, explains how crisis in an unprecedentedly powerful a…
7 years, 6 months ago
Yellow Vests with Danièle Obono and Jerome Roos
There has been no greater exemplar of zombie neoliberalism in power than French President Emanuel Macron's imperial technocracy. Now, with the rise o…
7 years, 6 months ago
Bad Objects with Andrea Long Chu and Marissa Brostoff
Marissa Brostoff and Andrea Long Chu discuss Sex and the City and The X-Files, unraveling the tangled history of Marxism and queer theory, Cynthia Ni…
7 years, 7 months ago