Podcast Episodes

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 Bharga…

4 years, 5 months 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 stat…

4 years, 5 months ago

Primer: 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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4 years, 5 months ago

Dig: Strike! with Jane McAlevey

A Striketober-relevant episode from The Dig archives.

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4 years, 5 months 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 Civi…

4 years, 5 months 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 conspira…

4 years, 5 months 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 bett…

4 years, 5 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 Univers…

4 years, 5 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 Ve…

4 years, 5 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 Fo…

4 years, 5 months ago