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Confronting Capitalism: The End of Wokeness?
There is no cultural phenomenon more hated today than what is called wokeness. While it is wrongly associated with the Left, the Right is very succes…
1 year, 2 months ago
Dig: Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transfor…
1 year, 2 months ago
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-edite…
1 year, 2 months 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 t…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 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 th…
1 year, 2 months 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 a…
1 year, 3 months 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 politica…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 3 months 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 analy…
1 year, 3 months ago