Behind the News: The Far Right Rises in Austria; A Hybrid Argument Against Rent-Seeking
Benjamin Opratko, a fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin who teaches at the University of Vienna, on the rise of the far right in Austria. On Sunday, October 16, Austria held elections, and the two...
30 Okt 201752min
The Dig: Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment
The exposure of Weinstein's predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in the workplace. Jacobin editor @alexnpress discusses tw...
27 Okt 201732min
The Dig: Trump's Reactionary Mind with Corey Robin
Corey Robin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined by political and military distinction and another b...
25 Okt 20171h 2min
The Dig Bonus: Ending the War on Drug Dealers
Dan was on a panel last week on ending the war on drug dealers at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Atlanta. The panel was moderated by asha bandele and included Daryl Atkinson, Constanza Sánchez...
23 Okt 20171h 8min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: One Hundred Years Since October
Suzi Weissman switches seats with Robert Brenner: she is the guest and he does the interviewing. The program begins with a talk Suzi gave recently in Berkeley: "One Hundred Years Since October: When t...
23 Okt 201747min
Behind the News: From the Chinese Communist Party Congress to US Policing
Isabel Hilton, editor of ChinaDialogue.net, discusses recent developments at the Chinese Communist Party Congress. Then, Doug is joined by Alex Vitale, author The End of Policing, who addresses how we...
23 Okt 201752min
The Dig: Let's Elect Left Candidates with Joe Dinkin
Since Bernie Sanders's success in the 2016 Democratic primary, much of the Left, from progressive Democrats to socialists, has had its sights set on something we had long at least implicitly assumed w...
20 Okt 20171h 4min
The Dig: We must end policing as we know it with Alex Vitale
In his new book The End of Policing Brooklyn College sociologist @avitale makes the case that technocratic reforms won't fix American policing. In reality, we can only fix policing by ending the carce...
18 Okt 20171h 3min
