Podcast Episodes

Charlene Carruthers: Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump

Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump The Movement for Black Lives’ insistence that black lives matter is deceptively straightforward and minimal. Bu…

9 years, 6 months ago

Marie Gottschalk: 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 an…

9 years, 6 months ago

Jed Purdy: The courts, Trump and politics in the context of ecological crisis

All eyes have turned to the judiciary. It’s the one potential institutional check on Trump—aside, of course, from the shadowy national security state…

9 years, 6 months ago

Mark Blyth: How Austerity Brought Us Donald Trump​

Mark Blyth wasn't surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all.  Blyth,…

9 years, 7 months ago

‘White genocide’ with George Ciccariello-Maher

George Cicariello-Maher is professor of political science at Drexel University and author of several books, including Building the Commune: Radical D…

9 years, 7 months ago

Fighting the Trump bans: Linda Sarsour and Nicholas Espíritu

9 years, 7 months ago

Diane Ravitch on Trump, DeVos and the corporate ed “reform” agenda

Donald Trump has nominated Betsy DeVos, a free-market, far-right Christian billionaire dedicated to privatizing public schools, to be his Secretary o…

9 years, 7 months ago

Jacobin’s All-Star Socialist Anti-Inauguration Extravaganza

This week we re-broadcast Jacobin Magazine (https://www.jacobinmag.com), Verso (https://www.versobooks.com/), and Haymarket Books (https://www.haymar…

9 years, 7 months ago

Building a diverse working class movement to transform America

9 years, 8 months ago

Glenn Greenwald on Trump and the National Security State

Presidents Bush and Obama both presided over an expansive War on Terror and a national security state with a lethal and global reach. Permanent war a…

9 years, 8 months ago