Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPrimer: The Amazonification of Fiction?
This week, we speak with Mark McGurl, professor of literature at Stanford and the author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon.
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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Dig: Strike! with Jane McAlevey
A Striketober-relevant episode from The Dig archives.
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Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Jacobin Show: Slavoj Žižek on the Legacy of the Russian Revolution
Slavoj Žižek discusses World War I and the other forces that shaped the Russian Revolution, how we should understand the Red Terror, the Russian Civil War, and the legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Plus, …
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Behind the News: Lebanon Crisis & COVID Conspiracies
Doug speaks with Mona Fawaz on the dire economic and political crises in Lebanon. Plus: Mark Dery, author of this article, on conspiracy theories, with special emphasis on Mark Cr…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Weekends: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine w/ Andrew Cockburn
Journalist Andrew Cockburn, author of the new book The Spoils of War, explains why the United States’ astronomical Pentagon budget hasn’t led to better national defense and what’s driving the growth …
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Long Reads: Vanessa Chishti on Kashmir's History of Repression and Resistance
Vanessa Chishti joins Long Reads for a discussion about Kashmir's past and present. Vanessa is professor of history at the O.P. Jindal Global University in Delhi, India. Long Reads is a Jacobin podca…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Primer: Microworking for the Weekend
We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism, a new book from Verso Books. Jones is also a researcher for the thin…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
A World to Win: Net Zero Is Not Enough w/ Holly Jean Buck
Grace speaks to Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo about her new book Ending Fossil Fules: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough. They discu…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Jacobin Show: Behind the Republican Party Crack-up w/ Paul Heideman
Paul Heideman debunks the myth that the Republicans are now a working-class party and explores how the structural weakness of the American party system and conflicting business interests drove the Re…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Dig: The Right to Sex with Amia Srinivasan
What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Cent…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago