
Behind the News: Forgotten Albania w/ Lea Ypi
Gabriel Hetland, author of a recent article for Jacobin, looks to Venezuela for a model of municipal socialism. Lea Ypi, author of Indignity, looks into her grandmother’s story and unfolds a rich hist...
10 Nov 202553min

The Dig: Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad
Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister...
6 Nov 20251h

Confronting Capitalism: Why Neoliberalism Won
Neoliberalism’s victory over Keynesianism wasn’t an intellectual revolution — it was a class offensive. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites turned economic turmoil into an opportu...
5 Nov 202538min

Behind the News: Silicon Valley’s Rightward Tilt w/ Jacob Silverman
Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage, examines the rightward move of the Silicon Valley elite. Forrest Hylton conducts a political tour d’horizon of South America. Behind the News, hosted by Doug He...
3 Nov 202553min

Long Reads: Pedro Sanchez and Spanish Politics w/ Eoghan Gilmartin (Part 2)
We’re joined again today by Eoghan Gilmartin to continue our discussion about the government of Pedro Sanchez in Spain. Eoghan is an Irish journalist based in Madrid, a regular contributor to Jacobin,...
31 Okt 20251h 12min

The Dig: Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga
Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on...
29 Okt 20252h 8min

Behind the News: Big-Tech War Profiteers w/ Susannah Glickman
Margaux MacColl, co-author of a series of articles in the SF Standard, discusses Zoomer tech bros. Susannah Glickman, who wrote a recent piece for the New York Review of Books, looks at the new arms m...
27 Okt 202553min

The Dig: Another World Was Possible
Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions,...
23 Okt 20251h 31min




















