Jacobin Radio

Jen Pan sits down with Jacobin columnist Ross Barkan to discuss his latest article, “Working-Class Politics Without the Working Class,” which takes a critical look at the Working Families Party. Next,...

8 Apr 20221h 7min

Luke and Will discuss AKIRA (1988), the groundbreaking anime classic. We hash over the film's vision of a future-dystopia, finding elements both unique to 1988 and applicable to all times. PLUS: the n...

7 Apr 202242min

Doug interviews Annelle Sheline, author of a new Quincy Institute policy brief about the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia's brutal war. Doug also interviews Natalia Petrzela, author of th...

4 Apr 202253min

Grace chats to David Wearing, post-doctoral researcher at SOAS and author of AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain. They discuss Boris Johnson’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and ...

1 Apr 202240min

Astra interviews Achal Prabhala on the lethal persistence of global vaccine apartheid. Moderna is selfishly refusing to share or even sell (license) its mRNA technology, leaving much of the world unpr...

1 Apr 20221h 37min

Eric Levitz and Branko Marcetic debate how the left in the US should understand and respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Slavoj Žižek and Vivek Chibber debate the role of ideology in promoting ...

31 Mar 20222h 26min

Anton Jäger joins Long Reads for a discussion about modern Belgium and its recent history. The country's image as a harmonious center of European integration, as host of the European Union and NATO, h...

26 Mar 202254min

This week, Grace and Alfie Stirling, Chief Economist of the New Economics Foundation, dissect the UK Chancellor’s spring statement. It looks set to contain very few of the measures that would be neces...

25 Mar 202231min