Jacobin Show: Is Culture Dead? w/ Catherine Liu & Eileen Jones
We're joined by the left's preeminent cultural critics, Catherine Liu and Eileen Jones, to assess why cultural production is so awful right now and what its root causes are. We also have professor Ren...
15 Syys 20221h 46min
Behind the News: Challenges in Chile w/ Antonia Atria
Chilean political activist Antonia Atria explains why that country’s voters rejected a proposed new constitution. Juliana Fredman, a public interest lawyer in the Bay Area, analyzes Biden’s student de...
12 Syys 202253min
The Dig: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism, intergenerational organizing, internationalism, and a whole lot more. Dan's live Dig interview from the Socia...
10 Syys 20221h 35min
Long Reads: Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and Empire (Part 2)
Deepa Kumar returns to Long Reads for a discussion about imperial militarism and its relationship to Islamophobic bigotry. Deepa is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University an...
10 Syys 202245min
Behind the News: State Prison w/ Wanda Bertram
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative joins to discuss the demographics of the million people in state prisons (with a coda on the fight around cash bail in New York). Then historian James Cha...
8 Syys 202253min
Michael and Us: In Old Brazil w/ Violet Lucca
One of the key films of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha's masterpiece TERRA EM TRANSE aka ENTRANCED EARTH (1967) envisions a fictional Latin American country where the left- and right-win...
6 Syys 202239min
A World to Win: All Work, No Play
Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work ...
6 Syys 202248min
The Dig: The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa
Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive...
2 Syys 20222h 14min
