Podcast Episodes

Michael and Us: Kung Fu Bicycles

For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and, for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even b…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Behind the News: AIPAC Influence w/ David Moore

David Moore outlines how AIPAC is using GOP contributors’ money to go after progressive Democrats. Meron Rapoport discusses how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel. Jamieson Webster spea…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Dig: Thawra Ep. 5 – The Struggle for Syria

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FIFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the early years of a str…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Behind the News: Death of the Future w/ Steve Fraser

Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos. Steve Fraser, author of a recent article for Jacobin, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better future.

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Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Michael and Us: Fresh Prince of Persia

In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf War. We take a visit to the consent-manufacturing …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Behind the News: Global North in Decline w/ Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad explains how the North American and European bourgeoisies have become a spent force with nothing to offer the world. Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Toward the Abyss, talks about Ukraine…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Michael and Us: The Party's Over

Against the backdrop of the incredibly boring 2000 election, the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman went on a cross-country journey to see if George W. Bush or Al Gore represented America. The result…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Jacobin Radio: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism w/ Warren Montag

Suzi talks to Warren Montag, professor at Occidental College, who was recently targeted for his talk at a college forum about Israel’s war on Gaza and issues it has raised in the US. The specific top…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Organize the Unorganized: Lessons

This final episode of Organize the Unorganized offers key lessons from the CIO moment. We asked all of our guests about this basic question, and these are their answers. The negative lessons—points w…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Dig: Thawra Ep. 4 - From the Nakba to Nasser

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FOURTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the politics surroundin…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago