Long Reads: Elizabeth Schmidt on Somalia and the Superpowers
Elizabeth Schmidt joins Long Reads for a discussion about Somalia's modern history of politics, crisis, and foreign intervention. Elizabeth is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Maryla...
24 Sep 202247min
Jacobin Show: Can We Red the Fed? w/ Samir Sonti
Samir Sonti joins us to talk about why the Federal Reserve has so much power over the economy and why its typical response to inflation is bad for workers. But does it need to be? We're also joined by...
22 Sep 20221h 24min
A World to Win: Seizing the State w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Grace speaks to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist, scholar, and professor of geography at the City University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Golden Gulag: Prisons, S...
21 Sep 202249min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Rail Worker Struggle w/ Nelson Lichtenstein
Suzi talks to UCSB labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein to get his analysis of the impending rail strike and the tentative deal reached to prevent it by labor leaders, the government, and the freight r...
20 Sep 20221h 16min
Michael and Us: Coronation Training Montage
We mark Queen Elizabeth's passing by looking at towering work of royalist kitsch, THE KING'S SPEECH (2010). We discuss how this Oscar-winner humanizes the monarchy in order to uphold it.See Luke speak...
19 Sep 202243min
Behind the News: Pain and Power w/ Arielle Angel
Doug discusses child poverty: How much was it down, really? Then Mario Pino offers another view of the Chilean constitutional referendum. Finally, Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents and author o...
19 Sep 202253min
The Dig: Emancipation Circuit w/ Thulani Davis
Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civil War and Reconstruction.Support this podc...
18 Sep 20221h 46min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Chile Rejects New Constitution
Suzi talks to Pablo Abufom and Oscar Mendoza to get their analysis of the monumental defeat in Chile on Sunday, September 4, when Chileans went to the polls to approve or reject a new progressiv...
16 Sep 20221h 7min
