Podcast Episodes

Jacobin Show: US Empire in Withdrawal? w/ Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad

Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, two of the left's most brilliant critics of US empire, sit down with Jacobin Show's Ariella Thornhill to discuss their new book The Withdrawal. To Chomsky and Prashad,…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Michael and Us: A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company

Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and di…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Behind the News: Nuclear Options w/ Leigh Phillips

Doug interviews Leigh Phillips on why nuclear power has to be part of any serious decarbonization program. Volodymyr Ishchenko discusses Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a bid to consolidate po…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Economic Weirdness w/ Robert Brenner

Suzi talks to economic historian Robert Brenner to get his understanding of this strange economic moment. What makes it strange? Inflation has dampened spending, the economy is shrinking, and many ca…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Long Reads: Dina Khoury on the US Destruction of Iraq (Part 2)

Dina Khoury joins Long Reads for the second in a two-part conversation about Iraq since the US occupation. Dina is a historian of the Middle East, and her books include Iraq in Wartime.

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Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Dig: Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Jacobin Show: The Logic of Capital w/ Deepankar Basu

Cale Brooks and Jen Pan discuss what is in the Inflation Reduction Act, the dregs of Biden’s Build Back Better plan that corporate Democrats felt they could sign onto, Matthew Cunningham-Cook outline…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

A World to Win: The Folly of Green Capitalism w/ Adrienne Buller

This week, Grace speaks to Adrienne Buller, author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. They discuss what "green capitalism" actually is, how it is being embedded in interna…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Behind the News: Ruling-Class 'Chums' w/ Simon Kuper

Doug speaks with Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. Then, an interview with James Meadway, director of the P…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Michael and Us: Omni Consumer Products

Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the source of the problem in the corporate world. The Sup…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago