Podcast Episodes

Red Star Over Palestine: The PLO Left

For many years, Palestine had one of the strongest left-wing movements in the Arab world, represented by prominent figures such as Leila Khaled and Ghassan Kanafani. At the beginning of the First Int…

Published on 8 months ago

Behind the News: Ways Out of a Global Crisis w/ Malcolm Harris

Charlie Eaton and Alina Gibadullina, coauthors of a recent paper, discuss the increasing prominence of hedge fund and private equity titans on elite university boards. Malcolm Harris, author of What’…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Dig: Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American capitalist, imperialist project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the first in a three-part series, …

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Confronting Capitalism: The End of NATO?

President Trump has threatened to upend the US’s role in NATO unless the Europeans increase their military spending. But far from just a budget reshuffling, European remilitarization massively increa…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Behind the News: Contradictions of the Trump Tariffs w/ Sam Gindin

Jason Wade of the UAW explains the union’s endorsement of Trump’s auto tariffs. Sam Gindin, former long-time adviser to what used to be known as the Canadian Autoworkers Union and the author of a rec…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Red Star Over Palestine: The Communist Movement

For many years, Palestine had one of the strongest left-wing movements in the Arab world, represented by prominent figures such as Leila Khaled and Ghassan Kanafani. At the beginning of the First Int…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Dig: Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke

Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national s…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Jacobin Radio: Letters From Russia’s Opposition w/ Joy Neumeyer

Journalist and historian Joy Neumeyer joins Suzi from Warsaw to discuss her March 13 piece in the New York Review of Books, “Russia: Letters from the Opposition.” Last summer, Neumeyer wrote to 14 o…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Behind the News: Trump and the Courts w/ Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn talks about Trump and the courts. Chris Maisano, author of a recent Jacobin article about class “dealignment,” discusses class and politics. Finally, Evgenia Kovda reflects on hipster nih…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Confronting Capitalism: Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?

The Republican Party has become a hegemonic force in US politics today. But how much of their dominance is predicated on Donald Trump’s personal rule?

On this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek…

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago