Behind the News: The State of the Carceral State w/ Wanda Bertram
After some introductory comments on the bank failures, Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative about the state of the carceral state. Then, Annelle Sheline discusses the Chinese...
20 Mar 202353min
The Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing ...
19 Mar 20231h 43min
Michael and Us: I Don't Like Sand
A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exactl...
18 Mar 202339min
Jacobin Radio: 50 Years of Chilean Politics w/ Marc Cooper
Suzi talks to veteran journalist Marc Cooper, who was a translator to President Salvador Allende in the Popular Unity government from 1970-1973. Marc has memorialized his experience in Chile in Pinoch...
16 Mar 20231h 15min
Behind the News: The DeSantis Agenda w/ Paul Ortiz
A Florida follow-up: historian and union president Paul Ortiz on the DeSantis agenda and resistance to it. Then human rights lawyer Noa Levy discusses the far right agenda in Israel and resistance to ...
14 Mar 202353min
The Dig: Labor Histories w/ Nelson Lichtenstein
Featuring Nelson Lichtenstein on his life and scholarship, from membership in the International Socialists and studies of the early United Auto Workers and CIO to his later turn to studying Walmart an...
12 Mar 20231h 48min
Jacobin Radio: A Year of War in Ukraine
Suzi talks to Vladyslav Starodubtsev and Jeremy Bigwood about the war in Ukraine, now entering its second year. Russia’s war on Ukraine has been a disaster causing human suffering and economic devasta...
9 Mar 20231h 8min
Long Reads: The Cathar Crusade w/ Elaine Graham-Leigh
In the thirteenth century, the Catholic Church declared a holy war against a group of Christian heretics in the South of France. The Albigensian Crusade became notorious for its brutality and gave ris...
9 Mar 202341min
