Podcast Episodes

Jacobin Show: The Legacy of the French Revolution w/ Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek joins The Jacobin Show on Bastille Day to discuss why the French Revolution still matters and how the Left today can embrace the the radical spirit of the Enlightenment.

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Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Dig: How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber

How China rejected neoliberal orthodoxy and became the new workshop of the world. Dan interviews economist Isabella Weber on her book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate.

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Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Weekends: Latin America's Fight Against Imperialism and Neoliberalism w/ Greg Grandin

Well over a century of US intervention has shaped Latin America in disastrous ways. Historian Greg Grandin discusses that history, and the region's ongoing fight against imperialism and neoliberalism…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Haiti in Crisis w/ Frantz Voltaire

Suzi talks to Frantz Voltaire, Haitian historian, filmmaker, and publisher, about the chaotic situation in Haiti. President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his home in the middle of the night on Ju…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Behind the News: Economic Reform in China w/ Isabella Weber

Doug speaks with Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on Chinese economic reform debates and how the country dodged post-Soviet-style collapse.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug …

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

A World to Win: Imperial Nostalgia w/ Peter Mitchell

This week, Grace speaks to Peter Mitchell, author of Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves, which considers how the memory of empire continues to inflect British culture and politi…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Jacobin Show: Against Elon Musk, For Scientific Socialism w/ Leigh Phillips

Jacobin contributor and science writer Leigh Phillips joins us to discuss why socialists should embrace technological innovation and what science might look like if it were freed from the profit moti…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Michael and Us: Conquest of the Useless

The classic documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) captures director Werner Herzog as he's mounting the most ambitious feat of his career: attempting to haul a literal steamship over a literal mountain …

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Primer: On the Shop Floor

Part II of our look at Amazon in Europe. We speak to Magda Malinovska and Agnieszka Mroz, both of whom work in an Amazon warehouse in Poznan, Poland.

You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobi…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Weekends: Miami Condo Disaster, Hustle Culture, and America's Radical Past w/ Harvey Kaye

Professor Harvey J. Kaye joined us for Independence Day weekend to discuss how to disentangle America's radical past from its failings to provide for the needs of most laboring people. We also discus…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago