Behind the News: Ethel Rosenberg's Execution w/ Michael Meeropol
Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, talks about how the government executed his mother despite knowing her innocence. Ruth Whippman, author of BOYMOM: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age o...
25 Nov 202453min
The Dig: Crypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvad...
23 Nov 20241h 35min
Behind the News: Predicting Trump Policy w/ Alex Vitale & Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven tries to divine a Trump foreign policy out of unreliable rhetoric and early appointments. Alex Vitale tries similar on Trump and criminal justice.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood,...
20 Nov 202453min
The Dig: Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary arm...
18 Nov 20242h 5min
Jacobin Radio: Return of the Trumpian Right w/ Dylan Riley
Suzi talks to UC Berkeley sociologist Dylan Riley, who has written a great deal about fascism and far right politics. The US has just elected to the Presidency a man who represents a dire threat to de...
18 Nov 202456min
Long Reads: The Forever War on Gaza w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Earlier this week, Joe Biden welcomed the Israeli president Isaac Herzog to the White House. Last October, Herzog announced that there were no innocent civilians in Gaza. The International Court of Ju...
14 Nov 202455min
Jacobin Radio: Post-Election Analysis w/ Robert Brenner
We look at the election results that took many of us by surprise — giving Donald Trump and Republicans an across the board victory. For a look at the bigger picture, Suzi speaks to Robert Brenner, pro...
13 Nov 202455min
Behind the News: How the West Imagines Ukraine w/ James Foley
Doug comments on the Trump victory and the role of inflation. Dahlia Scheindlin talks about Israeli public opinion. James Foley and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, authors of a recent paper, discuss Ukraini...
12 Nov 202453min
