Michael and Us: Hunters in the Snow
The great Homer Simpson once said, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." In that spirit, we watched Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece SOLARIS (1972), which imagines outer space as a mani...
25 Mar 202247min
Jacobin Show: How Democrats Lost Rural America w/ Anthony Flaccavento
Anthony Flaccavento, Virginia-based farmer, author, and co-founder of the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative, joins the Jacobin Show to discuss rural America—and why the Democrats lose so consistently in r...
24 Mar 20221h 6min
The Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung
The second of our two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political and economic history. This episode covers the 2008 financial crisis, how China’s response deepened global and do...
23 Mar 20221h 45min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Dispatch From Russia
Suzi talks to Russian Marxist sociologist, activist, and author Boris Kagarlitsky to get his perspective of Putin’s war from inside Russia. How does he understand Putin's surprising decision—and misca...
22 Mar 202256min
The Dig: China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung
Part one of a two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008: why capitalism took off in England and then elsewhere but not in Chi...
18 Mar 20221h 18min
Jacobin Show: Leaving Occupy Anarchism in the Past w/ Ben Fong & Christie Offenbacher
To start off this week’s Jacobin Show, Jen Pan looks at the discourse around "economic anxiety" as an explanation for voters' turn to Donald Trump and other right wing politicians. Why do mainstream c...
18 Mar 20221h 15min
A World to Win: The Cost of Living Crisis w/ Gary Stevenson
New show alert! This week, A World to Win is expanding and launching a new format for the podcast. In addition to our regular long-form interviews, every other week Grace will host shorter, more topic...
17 Mar 202234min
Michael and Us: Contract With America
She's a Democrat. He's a Republican. They're speechwriters on warring campaigns... But can they fall in love??? That's the premise of the Michael Keaton/Geena Davis romcom SPEECHLESS (1994), which dre...
16 Mar 202238min
