Podcast Episodes

Behind the News: Trump's Middle East Plans w/ Mouin Rabbani

Mouin Rabbani surveys the Gaza ceasefire and Trump’s plans for the Middle East. Angela Jones and Bernadette Barton discuss the new book they co-edited, Sex Work Today.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug…

Published on 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Long Reads: Ceasefire in Gaza? w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed

Akbar Shahid Ahmed returns to Long Reads to discuss the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas — and what’s likely to happen next. Akbar is the senior diplomatic correspondent for the Huffing…

Published on 11 months ago

Behind the News: The Billionaires Killing California w/ Yasha Levine

Laura Jedeed, author of an article for the New Republic, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it. Yasha Levine, co-director of a new documentary, Pistachio Wars, talks about bill…

Published on 11 months ago

Dig: Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning

Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the …

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Jacobin Radio: Mass Politics Today w/ Nancy Fraser

Jacobin Radio has featured many presentations from the recent conference held in honor of Boris Kagarlitsky, author of The Long Retreat, a sobering analysis of the international Left that was discuss…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Behind the News: Crisis in Korea w/ Tim Shorrock

Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, talks about culture at the turn of the millennium. Tim Shorrock discusses the political crisis in South Korea.

Behind the News, hosted b…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Confronting Capitalism: A Return to Materialism

Foregrounding workers’ material interests used to be commonplace among socialists. But as the Left faced decades of defeat, a materialist approach to politics fell out of favor. In this episode of Co…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Dig: Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning

Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictor…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Behind the News: Best of 2024

This week is a best of 2024, with Rashid Khalidi, Pankaj Mishra, Annelle Sheline, Aziz Rana, Anna Kornbluh, Brooke Harrington, and, in memoriam, Jane McAlevey.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Behind the News: Farewell Biden w/ Branko Marcetic

Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of Yesterday's Man, says farewell to Joe Biden (and takes some shots at Joe Scarborough too). Santiago Pérez, co-author of a recent paper, discusse…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago