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Dig: It's Still Capitalism w/ Evgeny Morozov
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited c…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Michael and Us: The Forrest Gump Episode
It's an extremely discouraging political moment for our neighbors in the United States, so we decided the time was right to finally examine one of the quintessential cinematic articulations of Americ…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Behind the News: Making Cops Obsolete w/ Geo Maher
Doug speaks with Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police, on the movement to defund and eventually abolish the cops. Then, an interview with Tariq Fancy, author of a series of articles about "sus…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
A World to Win: Rail Strike! w/ Eddie Dempsey
This week, Grace speaks to Eddie Dempsey, Senior Assistant General Secretary of the RMT, about the strike action being taken by the rail union up and down the UK. They discuss the background to the s…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Long Reads: Helena Sheehan on Marxism and the Scientific Revolution
The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us how badly we need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Dig: Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons …
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Colombia w/ Forrest Hylton
Suzi talks to Forrest Hylton about Gustavo Petro’s historic victory in Colombia’s June 19 Presidential Election. Historic because it is the first victory for a leftist candidate in Colombia's history…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Jacobin Show: Neoliberalism and Depoliticization w/ Felix Biederman & Gary Gerstle
This week Jen Pan sits down with professor Gary Gerstle to discuss how the neoliberal order came into being and whether or not we're witnessing its dying days. We also get Felix Biederman's thoughts …
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Michael and Us: Socialism with Disneyan Characteristics
The Buzz Lightyear origin movie LIGHTYEAR (2022) has become a cultural lightning-rod in the right-wing moral panic over "grooming." We discuss this controversy (which is ridiculous, by the way), and …
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Behind the News: Middle-Class Myths w/ David Roediger
Doug interviews David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics. Then, a conversation with Paisley Currah, author of Sex Is as Sex Does, about trans politi…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago