Podcast Episodes

Behind the News: Queerness, Social Reproduction, and Capitalism

Doug speaks with Patrick Wyman, author of this article (and this earlier Substack version) on provincial elites. Plus: Duc Hien Nguyen on queerness, social reproduction, and …

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Jacobin Show: Did the Frankfurt School Ruin the Left? w/ Jeremy Cohan & Ben Serby

Professors Jeremy Cohan and Benjamin Serby discuss the influence of Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School on the New Left, how they continue to shape our politics today, and why the right became o…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

A World to Win: No Final Defeat w/ Nina Turner

This week, Grace speaks to Senator Nina Turner, the former Ohio Senator and Democratic Nominee for Ohio Secretary of State who also served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Presidential Campaign.

Gr…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Behind the News: Black Men in the Job Market

Doug speaks with Algernon Austin on the plight of black men in the job market (with an excerpt from a 2005 BtN interview with Devah Pager on discrimination). Plus, an interview wi…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Michael and Us: Radioactive Dreams

Nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cinema's most enduring symbol of the perils of nuclear proliferation first crawled out of Tokyo Bay. We discuss how the original GODZILLA (195…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: A Congressional Standoff & COVID in Los Angeles

Alan Minsky is back for an update on the state of play in passing the Build Back Better Reconciliation and Infrastructure Bills. The progressives are using their leverage because the BBB bi…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Weekends: How the US Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War w/ Sam Moyn

Samuel Moyn, author of the new book Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, joins Weekends to explain why the US shifted to “humane” forms of warfare to justify and perpetua…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Sports Show: A Conspiracy Grows in Brooklyn w/ Haley O'Shaughnessy

Jacobin Radio presents the latest episode from our sister podcast, the Jacobin Sports Show! This week, podcast superstar Haley O'Shaughnessy joins hosts Matthew Miranda and Jonah Birch to talk a…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Dig: Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 o…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Jacobin Show: The Left Case Against the 1619 Project w/ James Oakes

Historian James Oakes explains how the 1619 Project misconstrues the relationship between slavery and capitalism and what the left can learn from the mass politics of the antislavery movement.

The Jac…

Published on 4 years, 2 months ago