Podcast Episodes

Long Reads: Pedro Sanchez and Spanish Politics w/ Eoghan Gilmartin (Part 1)

Long Reads continues our recent focus on the politics of southern European countries over the last decade. This week and in our next episode, we’re looking in detail at what’s been happening in Spain…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Behind the News: Is Trump De-Escalating With China? w/ Jake Werner

Jake Werner of the Quincy Institute analyzes Trump’s creeping softness on China, and how that country sees its role in the world. Jeet Heer, author of a recent book review for the Nation, talks about…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Jacobin Radio: How to Resist ICE and Win w/ Bill Gallegos

Professor Tom Alter, a tenured historian at Texas State University, was recently fired for speaking at an online socialism conference. His remarks were secretly recorded and doctored by a self-procla…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Dig: From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget defici…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Confronting Capitalism: Reviving Class Politics Today

In this tumultuous political era, it’s common to hear that the Left needs to rebuild its historic sources of power. But it’s more accurate to say that the Left is essentially in the process of starti…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Jacobin Radio: Imperialism in the 21st Century w/ Ilya Matveev

At the end of September, political theorist Ilya Matveev joined the Critique editorial board to present his ideas about imperialism in the 21st century. Suzi Weissman moderated that enlightening disc…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Behind the News: Trump’s Dubious Gaza Scheme w/ Mouin Rabbani

Erin Thompson considers the politics of public monuments as Trump talks of restoring Confederate statues. Mouin Rabbani returns for a look at Trump’s dubious Gaza peace scheme. Ted Hamm, author of Ru…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 2)

This week’s episode of Long Reads is the second in a two-part interview. In our last episode, we spoke to Catarina Príncipe about the politics of Portugal since 2015. Today we’re going to cover devel…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Dig: Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from th…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Jacobin Radio: Tech Capital Is Taking Over Politics w/ Thomas Ferguson

Thomas Ferguson has investigated money in politics for decades, and he has found, over and over again, that money and election outcomes are directly linked.

He joins Suzi to talk about how Silicon Va…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago