Podcast Episodes

Long Reads: Fabien Escalona on French Socialism from Mitterrand to Meltdown

Fabien Escalona, journalist at the French publication Mediapart, joins Long Reads for a discussion about the trajectory of socialism in France over r…

4 years, 5 months ago

A World to Win: The Production of Uselessness w/ Neil Vallelly

On this week’s podcast Grace speaks to Neil Vallelly, author of Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness.

They discuss the rol…

4 years, 5 months ago

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 Davi…

4 years, 5 months 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 …

4 years, 5 months 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 Holly…

4 years, 5 months 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 c…

4 years, 5 months 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 o…

4 years, 5 months ago

Dig: Striketober

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

Listen to Primer, Alex's…

4 years, 5 months ago

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 analy…

4 years, 5 months ago

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 th…

4 years, 5 months ago