Podcast Episodes

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Ukraine and the Anti-War Resistance

Suzi talks to Bohdan Krawchenko and Mick Cox on Russia's catastrophic war on Ukraine, the resistance, and global consequences it has sparked. Bohdan Krawchenko looks at the situation inside Ukraine. …

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Dig: Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.

Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Long Reads: David Edgerton on the Myths of Modern Britain

David Edgerton joins Long Reads for a discussion about the making of the modern British nation. David is a professor at King’s College London, where his work concentrates on twentieth-century history…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

Jacobin Show: Permanent Inflation? w/ Ramaa Vasudevan

Economist Ramaa Vasudevan explains the causes and consequences of inflation from a socialist perspective. Natalie Shure looks at the growing discontent with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Behind the News: Ottawa, the NFL, and Amazon

Doug speaks with Toronto-based activist and organizer John Clarke on the politics and personnel behind the Ottawa convoy. Plus: Dave Zirin on racism in the NFL (and Brian Flores’s lawsuit over it) an…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Michael and Us: I Only Read It for the Articles

In another Superdelegate-selected episode, we discuss THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996), the hagiographic biopic of the Hustler Magazine publisher and First Amendment warrior. We discuss Flynt's poli…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Canada’s Alt-Right Rage

Suzi talks to Canadian Labor historian Bryan Palmer about the so-called "Freedom Convoy" of truckers that held Ottawa hostage for three weeks, clogging the streets of the city as well as the US-Canad…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Dig: Feminist International w/ Verónica Gago

Feminist political theorist and organizer Verónica Gago on Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labor and financial exploitation, neoliberalism from below, an…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Behind the News: Prison and Public Health

Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison sickens and kills people. Then Terry Kupers, from a 2013 interview, on the effects of solitary confinement on mental healt…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

Jacobin Show: Coronavirus Criminals w/ John Nichols

Ariella Thornhill speaks with John Nichols about his new book, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers. Nichols argues that the massive number of deaths in the US were caused not by the vicissi…

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago