Podcast Episodes

Dig: The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow

Astra Taylor interviews archaeologist David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber. 

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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Behind the News: Debate on 'Degrowth'

Doug speaks with Sheryll Cashin, author of White Space, Black Hood, about the origins, mechanisms, and effects of residential segregation, mostly by race but also by class. Plus, Peter Victor and Rob…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Michael and Us: Nuance Mongering

FALLING DOWN (1993) features Michael Douglas as an ordinary man who's mad as hell, turning into a Travis Bickle for the Rush Limbaugh era. It's Hollywood's attempt to make a serious statement about a…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Weekends: A Future for the Left w/ Nina Turner

Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner discusses the recent elections, Democrats’ disconnect from working people, and how progressives can fight the corporatist wing of the Democratic Party.

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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Jacobin Show: What Do Working-Class Voters Want? w/ Jared Abbott

Jared Abbott, a researcher with the newly launched Center for Working-Class Politics, joins us to discuss a groundbreaking new Jacobin/YouGov study on working-class voters' political preferences and …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Dig: Striketober

Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. 

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Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: All the News That’s Fit to Click w/ Caitlin Petre

Caitlin Petre, media sociologist at Rutgers University, has just published All the News That’s Fit to Click, a critical look at how performance analytics are transforming the work of profit-driven jo…

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Weekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assembly Member for District 36, discusses why he and New York cab drivers are undertaking a hunger strike, and how the city’s inaction around the taxi medallion crisis…

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Behind the News: The Reactionary History of the Supreme Court w/ Samuel Moyn

Doug speaks to Samuel Moyn, co-author of this article, on the reactionary history of the Supreme Court and how to democratize it. Plus: Deepak Bhargava, one of the editors of Immigration Matters, on …

Published on 4 years, 1 month ago

Michael and Us: Lost Futures

We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing state of being. PLUS: thoughts on the dark 'n' gritty …

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