Podcast Episodes

Behind the News: Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered

A memorial to Barbara Ehrenreich, who died at 81 on September 1, featuring three Behind the News interviews with her from 2004, 2005, and 2009.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worl…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Michael and Us: Penn and Paintbrush

Libertarian magicians Penn & Teller turn their gaze to the art world in TIM'S VERMEER (2013), a documentary that attempts to prove that, with just the right set of tools and a lot of money, one wealt…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Dig: Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib

Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Long Reads: Elizabeth Schmidt on Somalia and the Superpowers

Elizabeth Schmidt joins Long Reads for a discussion about Somalia's modern history of politics, crisis, and foreign intervention. Elizabeth is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Maryl…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Jacobin Show: Can We Red the Fed? w/ Samir Sonti

Samir Sonti joins us to talk about why the Federal Reserve has so much power over the economy and why its typical response to inflation is bad for workers. But does it need to be? We're also joined b…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

A World to Win: Seizing the State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist, scholar, and professor of geography at the City University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Golden Gulag: Prisons, …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Rail Worker Struggle w/ Nelson Lichtenstein

Suzi talks to UCSB labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein to get his analysis of the impending rail strike and the tentative deal reached to prevent it by labor leaders, the government, and the freight …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Michael and Us: Coronation Training Montage

We mark Queen Elizabeth's passing by looking at towering work of royalist kitsch, THE KING'S SPEECH (2010). We discuss how this Oscar-winner humanizes the monarchy in order to uphold it.

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Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Behind the News: Pain and Power w/ Arielle Angel

Doug discusses child poverty: How much was it down, really? Then Mario Pino offers another view of the Chilean constitutional referendum. Finally, Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents and author …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Dig: Emancipation Circuit w/ Thulani Davis

Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civl War and Reconstruction.

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Published on 3 years, 3 months ago