Podcast Episodes

Dig Presents: Superhighway!

We have as many roads in the United States as we have streams and rivers. 

Produced by Caroline Kanner and Jackson Roach, with original music by Jackson Roach. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johns…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Jacobin Radio: Putinism w/ Ilya Budraitskis

Suzi talks to long-time political activist and theorist Ilya Budraitskis about the transformation of Russia into a dictatorship and the nature of Putinism more than a year after Russia’s brutal invas…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Michael and Us: The Great Moving Right Show

A young man caught between his socialist father and Thatcherite uncle falls in love with a young National Front street punk while building a laundromat. We watched MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) and …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Behind the News: Green New Dead End? w/ Josh Mason

Economist Josh Mason of John Jay College (and author of a recent Jacobin article, written in response to a Dylan Riley article for New Left Review's website) on how we can save the climate before we …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Dig: Teach the Children Well w/ Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider

Featuring Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider on the politics of public education. The authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Education and the Future of School and co-hosts …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Long Reads: The Life and Death of Yugoslavia w/ Catherine Samary (Part 1)

The breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s resulted in a brutal civil war. The conflict ended an experiment in multinational coexistence across the Western Balkans. But the tragic end of Yugoslavia…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Michael and Us: Ten Days That Shook the World

How did Warren Beatty convince a Hollywood studio to make a movie about American communists in 1981? We discuss REDS (1981), his epic biopic of writers John Reed and Louise Bryant, as well as Reed's …

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Behind the News: Living on Less w/ Kate Soper

Philosopher Kate Soper talks about her book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, just out in paperback: living on less but without the hair-shirtism.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwo…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Dig: How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey

Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement.

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Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

Michael and Us: Of Shoes and Men

Ben Affleck's AIR (2023) chronicles the wheeling and dealing that led to Michael Jordan signing with Nike, and this unabashed celebration of the world's most famous shoe brand positions the Air Jorda…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago