Jacobin Radio: No Way Back For Gaza
Author and activist Mark LeVine on the recent horrific events in Gaza and Jerusalem, which he sees as a point of no return. LeVine interprets Zionism's fundamental nature and history as one of settler...
21 Touko 201834min
Behind the News: Declining Health; Anticommunism
The Brookings Institute's Carol Graham (papers here, here, and here) on failing health and declining prospects among poor white people in the United States. Then, Kristen Ghodsee, co-author of this ar...
21 Touko 201852min
The Dig: Free Palestine with Noura Erakat
Israel is massacring Palestinians daring to approach a fence that occupation forces have built to shore up an ethno-state founded on the principle of apartheid. Nothing could be more clear. But you wo...
18 Touko 201835min
The Dig: The Law in Its Majestic Equality
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.” The rule of law: the #resistance has construed it to be a co...
16 Touko 20181h 5min
Behind the News: Venezuela; the Making of American Political Science
Historian Alejandro Velasco sorts fact from fiction when it comes to contemporary Venezuela. Then, Jessica Blatt, author of Race and the Making of American Political Science, on the racist origins of ...
14 Touko 201851min
The Dig: Policing Poor Black Families with Dorothy Roberts
Recent cases of horrific child abuse have elicited widespread media attention. What the media coverage often misses is what these incidents reveal about a two-tiered child protection system that syste...
12 Touko 201844min
The Dig: Struggle and the State
Today's Dig is a very good and somewhat unusual Dig: Dan’s got two interviews with two different people. First, journalist Eric Blanc on the teacher strike wave that he's been covering for Jacobin. Th...
9 Touko 20181h 11min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Educators' Strikes and Left Foreign Policy
Suzi talks to veteran union negotiator and labor writer Joe Burns about the teachers strike wave from West Virginia to Arizona — and about how public-sector workers and teachers are reviving the most ...
7 Touko 201848min
