Jacobin Radio

Doug speaks with Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on Chinese economic reform debates and how the country dodged post-Soviet-style collapse.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Hen...

12 Jul 202153min

This week, Grace speaks to Peter Mitchell, author of Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves, which considers how the memory of empire continues to inflect British culture and politic...

10 Jul 202145min

Jacobin contributor and science writer Leigh Phillips joins us to discuss why socialists should embrace technological innovation and what science might look like if it were freed from the profit motiv...

9 Jul 20211h 38min

The classic documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) captures director Werner Herzog as he's mounting the most ambitious feat of his career: attempting to haul a literal steamship over a literal mountain f...

9 Jul 202149min

Part II of our look at Amazon in Europe. We speak to Magda Malinovska and Agnieszka Mroz, both of whom work in an Amazon warehouse in Poznan, Poland.You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobin R...

8 Jul 202126min

Professor Harvey J. Kaye joined us for Independence Day weekend to discuss how to disentangle America's radical past from its failings to provide for the needs of most laboring people. We also discuss...

6 Jul 20212h 11min

The HBO documentary THE SWAMP (2020) follows three "maverick" Republican congressmen who seek to fulfill Donald Trump's promise to "drain the swamp," even if that means alienating their party leaders....

6 Jul 202155min

Doug speaks with Joseph Darda, author of How White Men Won the Culture Wars, on the role of the Vietnam vet in establishing white identity. Plus: Joshua Adams, author of this article, on the critical ...

4 Jul 202153min