
Jacobin Radio: The Trial w/ Boris Kagarlitsky
Suzi talks to Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian left intellectual writer-activist, just two weeks after he won his release from over four months in pre-trial custody. Kagarlitsky was arrested in Moscow on Ju...
8 Jan 202452min

The Dig: Colonialism, Zionism, Sectarianism w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on how Western colonialism and Zionism exploited, exacerbated, and imposed sectarianism across the Arab Middle East. This is the SECOND of a two-part interview.Support The Dig...
6 Jan 20241h 39min

Behind the News: The Year in Labor w/ Alex Press
Samuel Moyn, law professor and historian, discusses the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot. Labor journalist Alex Press talks about the year in labor. See ...
5 Jan 202453min

Long Reads: Biden's Vietnam w/ Akbar Shahid Ahmed
This is another special episode of Long Reads looking at Israel’s war on Gaza. Our focus today is on the politics of the Biden administration and its backing for Israel. Joe Biden and his team are sti...
4 Jan 202445min

Michael and Us: We Invented Chill!
We kick off 2024 by raiding the fridge for some holiday leftovers. It's become an annual tradition on this podcast to try to extract ideology from Tim Allen's "Santa Clause" franchise. With THE SANTA ...
3 Jan 202444min

Introducing... Organize the Unorganized
There have been many moments of labor upsurge in America: the influx of members into the Knights of Labor in 1886, the dramatic growth of unions during and after World War I, and the great wave of pub...
2 Jan 20244min

Jacobin Radio: Grassroots Democracy in Latin America w/ Gabriel Hetland
Gabriel Hetland has just published his study of populist experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia, Democracy on the Ground, showing the complexity of implementing participatory democracy at the grassroots...
29 Des 202350min

The Dig: Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi
Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire's Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted by European colonialism and Zionism, which exac...
23 Des 20231h 57min



















