Podcast Episodes

Dig: Iran, 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar Nikpour

This episode is the first in a four-part series on the history of modern Iran, from 1906 through the present. This episode covers the period from 1906 until 1941, from the Constitutional Revolution t…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Behind the News: Saudi Oil w/ Annelle Sheline

Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute explains why Saudi Arabia cut its oil production dramatically. James Meadway, former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party and now director of the Progressiv…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Jacobin Show: A Bigger, Better Left w/ Jane McAlevey

This is sadly our final episode of the Jacobin Show. We're joined by labor organizer and author Jane McAlevey to discuss the state of the labor movement and where it needs to go to address our mounti…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Protest in Iran

Suzi talks to Iranian scholar and activist Yassamine Mather about the growing protest movement in Iran, sparked by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini in police custody for wearing a loose hijab. The de…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Michael and Us: The Gondola Song

We discuss death, bureaucracy, and postwar Japan in Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece IKIRU (1952). PLUS: Everything you always wanted to know about Toronto's political culture (and upcoming municipal ele…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Long Reads: Antony Lerman on Antisemitism, Israel, and the Left

The question of how to define antisemitism has become a major political controversy. Many leading political figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu, now insist that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are tw…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Dig: Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason

Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspi…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Behind the News: Saving the Earth

Doug speaks with Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, authors of Half-Earth Socialism, about their scheme to save the world.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and p…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Special: Adam Tooze on Inflation and the Cost-of-Living Crisis

On the occasion of Jacobin's "Inflation" issue release party, Samir Sonti interviewed historian Adam Tooze at the Mayday Space in Brooklyn. This is audio from that recent live conversation. Samir and…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

A World to Win: Mussolini's Shadow w/ David Broder

Grace speaks to historian David Broder about Italian fascism following the recent elections in which the Italian far-right party led by Giorgia Meloni, the Brothers of Italy, came to power.They discu…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago