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Behind the News: The Scale of US Aid to Israel w/ William Hartung
William Hartung, co-author of a recent paper for Brown University's Watson Institute, outlines how much aid the US has given to Israel over the last year (plus, he shares some wacky stuff on AI weapo…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Long Reads: The German Peasants' War w/ Martin Empson
The German Peasants’ War was the biggest social revolt in a European country during the period before the French Revolution. In the wake of the Reformation, a movement development among the popular c…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Michael and Us: Requiem for a Joker
Five years after Joker because an era-defining cultural phenomenon, its sequel, JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024), is the biggest flop of the year. We sifted through the wreckage to find a purposely abrasiv…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Behind the News: The Belligerence of Biden-Harris w/ Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven dissects the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden-Harris foreign policy. Lily Lynch, author of a recent article for The Baffler, talks about the emptying out of the Balkans.…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Dig: Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics that’s sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a product of an old contradiction: the need to…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Behind the News: Revisiting Marx's Capital w/ Paul North & Paul Reitter
Paul North and Paul Reitter discuss their new translation of Marx’s Capital. Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzhaky, authors of a recent article for Jacobin, talk about the vicious political culture of…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Jacobin Radio: Imperialism Today w/ Robert Brenner
On October 8, the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign held an online conference on “Boris Kagarlitsky and the Challenges of the Left.” Although Kagarlitsky is serving a five-year sent…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Thawra Epilogue: Genocide and Resistance
Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the third and final part of the epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our epic series on the history of revolutionary Arab politics. This episode takes us from Hama…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Long Reads: Israel's Year of Genocide w/ Rashid Khalidi
Last October, Long Reads spoke to Rashid Khalidi, one of the leading historians of modern Palestine, about the Israeli attack on Gaza. Few people would have guessed at the time that the mass killing …
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Michael and Us: The Myth of the Good Billionaire w/ Tim Schwab
The new Netflix documentary WHAT'S NEXT: THE FUTURE WITH BILL GATES (2024) positions the Microsoft founder as "one of the good billionaires." But what are the limits to his brand of philanthropy? And…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago