Jacobin Show: Why Blue Cities Keep Failing the Homeless w/ Clayton Aldern
Jen Pan speaks with Ben Burgis about why the left should continue focusing on concrete organizing and policy and not the culture wars. She also speaks with Clay Aldern, co-author of the new book Homel...
6 Maj 20221h 17min
A World to Win: The Radicalism of Hope w/ Mikaela Loach
This week, Grace talks to brilliant young climate campaigner Mikaela Loach about her work trying to shut down oil production in the North Sea, taking the UK government to court over fossil fuel subsid...
5 Maj 202254min
Michael and Us: Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Monkees were a prefabricated pop band who didn't play their own instruments and didn't get much respect. But in 1968, they teamed with director Bob Rafelson and a young writer named Jack Nicholson...
4 Maj 202240min
Behind the News: The Impending Debt Crisis w/ David Adler
Doug speaks with David Adler of the Progressive International on an impending debt crisis, with an emphasis on the role of the IMF. Plus: Sudip Bhattacharya on the Asian American population: its diver...
2 Maj 202253min
The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol
Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and the early Ming Dynasty through the Ottomans and Mugha...
28 Apr 20222h 4min
A World to Win: War and Inter-Imperialism w/ Barnaby Raine
This week, Grace is joined by Barnaby Raine, co-author of a recent essay for Salvage magazine analyzing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine through the lens of rising nationalism, a feature of global politic...
28 Apr 202240min
Jacobin Show: How We Broke the Supply Chain w/ David Dayen
Jen Pan speaks with Matt Bruenig on the terrible influence of corporate think tanks on our politics and David Dayen about how decades of pro-corporate policies have ruined our supply chains. Jen’s wee...
28 Apr 20221h 2min
Michael and Us: The Fatal Shore
Australian land and British institutions mix uncomfortably in Peter Weir's PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975). We speculate from our Canadian vantage points why this story has become one of the iconic docu...
27 Apr 202241min
