Jacobin Radio

Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner discusses the recent elections, Democrats’ disconnect from working people, and how progressives can fight the corporatist wing of the Democratic Party.Weekends wi...

8 Nov 20212h 6min

Jared Abbott, a researcher with the newly launched Center for Working-Class Politics, joins us to discuss a groundbreaking new Jacobin/YouGov study on working-class voters' political preferences and w...

5 Nov 20211h 44min

Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast about Amazon patreon.com/primerpodcastList...

4 Nov 20211h 26min

Caitlin Petre, media sociologist at Rutgers University, has just published All the News That’s Fit to Click, a critical look at how performance analytics are transforming the work of profit-driven jou...

3 Nov 202151min

Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assembly Member for District 36, discusses why he and New York cab drivers are undertaking a hunger strike, and how the city’s inaction around the taxi medallion crisis ...

2 Nov 20211h 47min

Doug speaks to Samuel Moyn, co-author of this article, on the reactionary history of the Supreme Court and how to democratize it. Plus: Deepak Bhargava, one of the editors of Immigration Matters, on i...

1 Nov 202153min

We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing state of being. PLUS: thoughts on the dark 'n' gritty n...

30 Okt 202139min

This week, we speak with Mark McGurl, professor of literature at Stanford and the author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon.You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobin Radio ...

29 Okt 202144min