Podcast Episodes

Long Reads: Crypto Capitalism w/ Ramaa Vasudevan

For its boosters, crypto finance is a modern-day version of the California gold rush, with fortunes to be made. And it seems to have attracted as many crooks and fraudsters as the original Wild West.…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Behind the News: Postliberalism w/ Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean, author of a recent article for the Los Angeles Review of Books, takes on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. Then Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute discusses the G2…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Jacobin Radio: The Chilean Coup, 50 Years Later (Part 2)

Suzi talks to journalist Marc Cooper, Salvador Allende's former translator, for part two of our commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile. Marc returned to Chile f…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

The Dig Presents: Alien Jerky Sold Here

If you look, you'll see. Most people don't look. 

Produced by Stephen Cassidy Jones and Liza Yeager.

Edited by Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir.

Featuring Mark Pilkington, V…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Behind the News: Cold War Liberalism w/ Samuel Moyn

Sam Gindin, writer and activist on labor issues, outlines the shortcomings of the UPS-Teamster deal (read his article, and a follow-up, on The Bullet website). Then Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Dig: Seizing Labor's Moment w/ Alex Press & Eric Blanc

Featuring Alex Press and Eric Blanc on surging labor militancy and why US unions must seize this historic moment.

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Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Michael and Us: Airport Paperback

Widely described as "Hollywood's response to the Lewinsky scandal," THE CONTENDER (2000) imagines a Vice Presidential confirmation process derailed by sexism and moral prudishness. We excavate some O…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Jacobin Radio: The Chilean Coup, 50 Years Later (Part 1)

Suzi talks to Oscar Mendoza about the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende that came to an abrupt and bloody end 50 years ago on September 11, 1973. Pinochet's coup inaugurated a wave of viol…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Dig: AOC on US Hegemony and Latin American Sovereignty

Featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Latin American left and the long history of US intervention in the region.

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Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Long Reads: The Hidden Rosa Luxemburg w/ Peter Hudis

More than a century after her death in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably one of the most celebrated Marxist thinkers. But until very recently, most of her work had never appeared in English tran…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago