Podcast Episodes

Confronting Capitalism: Why the Democrats Can’t Fight for Anything

Democratic voters are enraged by their party’s spineless “resistance” to the Trump administration’s draconian agenda. But the party’s dysfunction goes far deeper than just cowardly, uninspiring leade…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Behind the News: Why the US Needs “Better Elites” w/ Samuel Moyn

Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute looks at US relations with the world under the Trump regime, specifically Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Palestine, and US self-evisceration. Samuel Moyn, author of an a…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Long Reads: The Crypto Scam Goes Mainstream w/ Ramaa Vasudevan

Back in 2023, Long Reads spoke with Ramaa Vasudevan of Colorado State University for an episode about the development of crypto capitalism. Since then, the crypto industry has launched a concerted ef…

Published on 5 months ago

Dig: Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, & Paul Williams

Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the affor…

Published on 5 months ago

Behind the News: Health Care Havoc w/ Adam Gaffney

Adam Gaffney, co-author of a recent article for the New York Review of Books, looks at Trump & Co.’s dismantling of health care and research. Also on the podcast, Alan Beattie of the Financial Times…

Published on 5 months ago

Jacobin Radio: Russia’s Anti-War Political Prisoners w/ Simon Pirani

At the recent Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, Suzi moderated a panel about political prisoners in Russia and brings it now to Jacobin Radio.

We hear from Ksenia Kagarlitskaya, founder of the Fr…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Confronting Capitalism: How Iraq Became the Regime Change Playbook

US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites last month were a dangerous escalation in the ongoing conflict with Iran. But while a ceasefire has remained in place, there’s good reason to believe that Iranian …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Behind the News: The Case for a Four-Day Workweek w/ Juliet Schor

Juliet Schor, author of the book Four Days a Week, looks at experiments in reducing the workweek. Katherine Moos and Noé Martin Wiener, authors of a paper for the The Economic and Labour Relations Re…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Dig: Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant

Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Long Reads: The Legacy of Greece’s Oxi Referendum w/ Yanis Varoufakis

It’s now ten years since the people of Greece voted in a referendum on the austerity program of the European Union. The referendum was called by the government of Alexis Tsipras and his left-wing Syr…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago