Confronting Capitalism: The Politics of Mass Deportation
Donald Trump has made the issue of immigration a key battleground in US politics. But with public opinion swinging against the brutal ICE raids and deportations over the past year, how should the Left...
24 Jun 45min
Behind the News: How Cops Rose Above the Law w/ Stuart Schrader
Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power, explains how the political heft of cops allows them to get away with murder. Angela Jones, author of Sex in Public, looks at the social and political factors sha...
22 Jun 53min
Long Reads: Trillion Dollar Baby w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff (Part 1)
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after the record-breaking IPO of his company SpaceX. Musk presents the firm’s economic take off as the necessary means to a wider end for huma...
18 Jun 49min
Jacobin Radio: The People’s World Cup
The show’s co-producers Alan Minsky and Meleiza Figueroa fill in for Suzi with a special installment of their quadrennial podcast series, The People’s Game, which covers the world's most popular spec...
17 Jun 1h 26min
Behind the News: Why the Right Hates Theory w/ Moira Weigel
J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, authors of the new book Against Money, explain that curious stuff and enumerate its problems. Moira Weigel, author of a recent article for the journal October, takes a lo...
16 Jun 53min
The Dig: Nusantara Ep. 5 — Armed Conflicts, Guided Democracy
The fifth episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This installment traces...
15 Jun 2h 9min
Confronting Capitalism: Who Counts as a Worker?
In the midst of Graham Platner’s high-profile senate race in Maine, several media commentators jumped on whether he would fit within his own definition of the working class. Do we know how to pick out...
10 Jun 47min
