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Jacobin Radio: Struggle at UPS
Barry Eidlin sits in for Suzi Weissman, talking to longtime UPS Teamsters Carlos Silva, Carthy Boston and Greg Kerwood, who are mobilizing around the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Behind the News: Riots in France w/ Harrison Stetler
Harrison Stetler discusses recent riots in France. Peter Turchin, complexity theorist and author of End Times, explains why the US is heading for a s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Michael and Us: The Futility Thesis
We return to a TV show that is one of the prime relics of mid-2000s libertarian culture. We watch episodes of PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! on topics as d…
2 years, 9 months ago
Long Reads: Japan's Socialist Tradition w/ Kenji Hasegawa
Japan may be a powerhouse of global capitalism. But it also developed a powerful socialist movement in the twentieth century. During the Cold War, th…
2 years, 9 months ago
Behind the News: How Austerity Spawns Fascism w/ Clara Mattei
Clara Mattei, author of The Capital Order, explores the links among neoclassical economics, austerity, and fascism. Edwin Ackerman, author of a recen…
2 years, 9 months ago
Dig: The Manifesto w/ China Miéville
Featuring China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto. Miéville is the author of A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.
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2 years, 9 months ago
Michael and Us: Deaths of Cinema
Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (2019) hit the zeitgeist by consciously going against the 2019-era cultural grain. Tarantino looks …
2 years, 9 months ago
Behind the News: The Confederate Diaspora
Anatol Lieven, Eurasia director of the Quincy Institute, discusses Prigozhin’s aborted uprising in Russia and Putin’s status. Samuel Bazzi, co-author…
2 years, 9 months ago
Long Reads: William Morris, Romantic Revolutionary w/ Matthew Beaumont
William Morris is renowned for his work as an artist and designer. But he was also one of Britain's greatest socialist thinkers. Morris combined his …
2 years, 9 months ago
Michael and Us: In Soviet Russia, Game Plays You
Did Tetris bring down the USSR? That's the implication of TETRIS (2023), a highly fictionalized account of the beloved video game's journey from the …
2 years, 9 months ago