Podcast Episodes

Long Reads: Helen Lackner on Yemen's Road to Crisis

Long Reads is joined by Helen Lackner, author of Yemen in Crisis: The Road to War and a leading expert on modern Yemen who spent years living in the …

4 years, 8 months ago

Primer: A Force of Nature

We speak to Alec MacGillis, author of Fulfillment, a new book about Amazon and the country left in its wake.

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4 years, 9 months ago

A World to Win: Ignorance Is Power w/ Linsey McGoey

This week, Grace speaks to Linsey McGoey, professor of sociology at the University of Essex and author of The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rule…

4 years, 9 months ago

Jacobin Show: The Legacy of the French Revolution w/ Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek joins The Jacobin Show on Bastille Day to discuss why the French Revolution still matters and how the Left today can embrace…

4 years, 9 months ago

Dig: How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber

How China rejected neoliberal orthodoxy and became the new workshop of the world. Dan interviews economist Isabella Weber on her book How China Escap…

4 years, 9 months ago

Weekends: Latin America's Fight Against Imperialism and Neoliberalism w/ Greg Grandin

Well over a century of US intervention has shaped Latin America in disastrous ways. Historian Greg Grandin discusses that history, and the region's o…

4 years, 9 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Haiti in Crisis w/ Frantz Voltaire

Suzi talks to Frantz Voltaire, Haitian historian, filmmaker, and publisher, about the chaotic situation in Haiti. President Jovenel Moïse was assassi…

4 years, 9 months ago

Behind the News: Economic Reform in China w/ Isabella Weber

Doug speaks with Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on Chinese economic reform debates and how the country dodged post-Soviet…

4 years, 9 months ago

A World to Win: Imperial Nostalgia w/ Peter Mitchell

This week, Grace speaks to Peter Mitchell, author of Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves, which considers how the memory of empi…

4 years, 9 months ago

Jacobin Show: Against Elon Musk, For Scientific Socialism w/ Leigh Phillips

Jacobin contributor and science writer Leigh Phillips joins us to discuss why socialists should embrace technological innovation and what science mig…

4 years, 9 months ago