Podcast Episodes

Dig: Biden's Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman

Epidemiologist Justin Feldman makes a comprehensive and devastating critique of Biden's pandemic response. 

Read Justin's essay: jmfeldman.medium.com/?p=88452c696f2

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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Jacobin Show: Why the Left Can't Win Without West Virginia w/ Ted Boettner

Researcher Ted Boettner of the Ohio River Valley Institute outlines West Virginia’s political shift from blue to red through the history of coal mining and discusses why the Left can’t win without ru…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

A World to Win: Speculative Communities w/ Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

Grace talks to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, associate professor of sociology at UCL, about his book Speculative Communities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. They talk about the forma…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Long Reads: Cédric Durand on the Twilight of Neoliberalism

Cédric Durand joins Long Reads for a conversation about global capitalism and the pandemic. Cédric is a French economist who teaches at the University of Geneva, and the author of Fictitious Capital:…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Dig: Next Shift with Gabriel Winant

Historian Gabriel Winant discusses The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. It's a fascinating study of the emergence of the service sector and a new wor…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Why Are Democrats Such Losers? w/ Amber Frost & Danny Bessner

Chapo Trap House’s Amber A’Lee Frost and Jacobin contributor Danny Bessner investigate whether the Democrats are losing on purpose. Ross Barkan discusses New York mayor Eric Adams’s unlikely coalitio…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Michael and Us: 300th Episode Spectacular

To mark a very special milestone, we decided to reach back to early in the podcast's history and revisit MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA (2004). Mimicking Moore's own filmmaking style, this amateurish do…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Taking Back the Streets

Suzi talks to Warren Montag about the danger of the organized and armed far right. He argues in "The Necessity of Taking Back the Streets" in the journal Spectre that the left has not recognized the …

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Dig: Interregnum w/ Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, Wendy Brown

Everyone feels bad right now because conditions are awful and the outlook is bleak. What is going on, and where might things be headed? How might we become unstuck from this interregnum? Dan intervie…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Primer: Thinking Outside the Big Box

Episode 15

This week, we speak with Alex Han, executive editor of Organizing Upgrade about a recent conversation he moderated between an Amazon activist named Howard and Wade Rathke, chief organizer of ACO…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago