Jacobin Show: Confronting Capitalism w/ Vivek Chibber
Vivek Chibber, author of Confronting Capitalism, joins Jen Pan to explain what we can learn from both the Bolshevik and social democratic past to more effectively challenge and overcome capitalism in ...
1 Sep 20221h 29min
Behind the News: Mark Fisher's Legacy w/ Matt Colquhoun
Matt Colquhoun talks about Mark Fisher on the reissue of his essay collection Ghosts of My Life. Then Matt Huber, author of a recent article for the New Left Review blog Sidecar titled "Mish-Mash Ecol...
30 Aug 202253min
A World to Win: Parliamentary Socialism w/ Andrew Murray
This week, Grace talks to Andrew Murray, former chair of the Stop the War Coalition, former chief of staff at the Unite trade union, and former advisor to Jeremy Corbyn. We discuss his forthcoming boo...
29 Aug 202253min
Michael and Us: Alex's War
The new documentary ALEX'S WAR (2022) seeks to "look past the caricature" of the Infowars gadfly Alex Jones. Your hosts find themselves disagreeing on the usefulness of this nonjudgmental profile of t...
29 Aug 202257min
Long Reads: Deepa Kumar on Islamophobia and Empire (Part 1)
Deepa Kumar joins Long Reads for a discussion about imperial militarism and its relationship to Islamophobic bigotry. Deepa is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, and th...
28 Aug 202252min
The Dig: A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm ...
27 Aug 20222h 16min
Jacobin Show: New Deal Order w/ Gary Gerstle
Historian Gary Gerstle joins us to discuss what gave rise to the New Deal political order, the role that global communism played in the capital-labor compromise, and prospects for renewed social democ...
26 Aug 20221h 20min
Behind the News: Crisis in Sri Lanka w/ Indrajit Samarajiva
Doug is joined by David Palumbo-Liu to discuss the politics of Stanford University and its infamous alum, Peter Thiel. We then get writer Indrajit Samarajiva's analysis of the political and economic c...
25 Aug 202253min
