Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Confronting Capitalism: How Work Got So Bad
Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text Labor and Monopoly Capital t…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Dig: Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital…
1 month, 1 week ago
Behind the News: The Psychology of the Epstein Gang w/ Tessa West
Tessa West, professor of psychology at NYU, examines the social dynamics that kept the Epstein gang together. Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires…
1 month, 1 week ago
Long Reads: The Sudanese Catastrophe w/ Joshua Craze
Last October, the war in Sudan took a new turn with the capture of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces. The city in western Sudan had been under si…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Jacobin Radio: Four Years of War in Ukraine w/ Oleksandr Kyselov
Suzi speaks to Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov, who says the current “peace process” is a dangerous illusion. Russia’s goal, he argues, is not …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Behind the News: Authoritarianism From Below w/ Stuart Schrader
Naomi Hossain analyzes politics in Bangladesh generally and the recent election specifically. Stuart Schrader discusses “authoritarianism from below”…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Confronting Capitalism: Is AI Coming for Our Jobs?
The developments in artificial intelligence appear to promise a radical transformation of modern work. But what happens if AI turns out to be much mo…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Behind the News: How Mortgage Fraud Devastated East New York w/ Stacy Horn
Stacy Horn, author of The Killing Fields of East New York, on the damage mortgage fraud did to that neighborhood. David Backer, author of As Public a…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Long Reads: The Ceasefire Scam in Gaza w/ Yara Hawari
Last October, the Trump administration announced a ceasefire deal in Gaza after two years of relentless carnage. Since the deal was announced, Israel…
2 months ago
The Dig: The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and …
2 months ago