Podcast Episodes

Dig: Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad

Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Ministe…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Confronting Capitalism: Why Neoliberalism Won

Neoliberalism’s victory over Keynesianism wasn’t an intellectual revolution — it was a class offensive. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites turned economic turmoil into an opport…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Behind the News: Silicon Valley’s Rightward Tilt w/ Jacob Silverman

Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage, examines the rightward move of the Silicon Valley elite. Forrest Hylton conducts a political tour d’horizon of South America.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug H…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Long Reads: Pedro Sanchez and Spanish Politics w/ Eoghan Gilmartin (Part 2)

We’re joined again today by Eoghan Gilmartin to continue our discussion about the government of Pedro Sanchez in Spain. Eoghan is an Irish journalist based in Madrid, a regular contributor to Jacobin…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dig: Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga

Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take o…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Behind the News: Big-Tech War Profiteers w/ Susannah Glickman

Margaux MacColl, co-author of a series of articles in the SF Standard, discusses Zoomer tech bros. Susannah Glickman, who wrote a recent piece for the New York Review of Books, looks at the new arms …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dig: Another World Was Possible

Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions…

Published on 2 months ago

Confronting Capitalism: Office Hours With Vivek

Grab your coffee and your backpack — it's time for Professor Chibber's Office Hours!

On this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek answers YOUR questions. We received so many interesting and thoug…

Published on 2 months ago

Jacobin Radio: Louisiana Labor Struggle w/ Jesse Baum & David Williams

Suzi talks to Capital & Main reporter Jesse Baum and David Williams, a Dollar General stocker and organizer with Step Up Louisiana, about how workers are fighting for dignity and better working condi…

Published on 2 months ago

Behind the News: Ceasefire Update w/ Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé, author of Israel on the Brink, gives an update on the ceasefire and how the deepening crisis of Israeli society could lead to something better. Jennifer Berkshire examines the appalling T…

Published on 2 months ago