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
The Dig: Primary Struggle w/ Troy Jackson
Featuring Maine candidate for governor Troy Jackson, Wisconsin candidate for governor Francesca Hong, New York State Senate candidate Aber Kawas, and victorious Tempe, Arizona City Council candidate B...
8 Jun 1h 31min
Long Reads: Mohammed Harbi and the Algerian Revolution w/ Muriam Davis
On January 1 this year, Mohammed Harbi died at the age of 92. Harbi was one of the leading historians of modern Algeria and the movement that led it towards independence. Harbi began writing about the...
5 Jun 1h 6min
The Dig: Nusantara Ep. 4 — Indonesian Republic, Third World Revolution
The fourth 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 picks...
3 Jun 1h 59min
