Weekends: A Future for the Left w/ Nina Turner
Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner discusses the recent elections, Democrats’ disconnect from working people, and how progressives can fight the corporatist wing of the Democratic Party.Weekends wi...
8 Nov 20212h 6min
Jacobin Show: What Do Working-Class Voters Want? w/ Jared Abbott
Jared Abbott, a researcher with the newly launched Center for Working-Class Politics, joins us to discuss a groundbreaking new Jacobin/YouGov study on working-class voters' political preferences and w...
5 Nov 20211h 44min
The Dig: Striketober
Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast about Amazon patreon.com/primerpodcastList...
4 Nov 20211h 26min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: All the News That’s Fit to Click w/ Caitlin Petre
Caitlin Petre, media sociologist at Rutgers University, has just published All the News That’s Fit to Click, a critical look at how performance analytics are transforming the work of profit-driven jou...
3 Nov 202151min
Weekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assembly Member for District 36, discusses why he and New York cab drivers are undertaking a hunger strike, and how the city’s inaction around the taxi medallion crisis ...
2 Nov 20211h 47min
Behind the News: The Reactionary History of the Supreme Court w/ Samuel Moyn
Doug speaks to Samuel Moyn, co-author of this article, on the reactionary history of the Supreme Court and how to democratize it. Plus: Deepak Bhargava, one of the editors of Immigration Matters, on i...
1 Nov 202153min
Michael and Us: Lost Futures
We travel to postwar Vienna to visit THE THIRD MAN (1949) and discuss how this classic film's style perfectly articulates a bleak and despairing state of being. PLUS: thoughts on the dark 'n' gritty n...
30 Okt 202139min
Primer: The Amazonification of Fiction?
This week, we speak with Mark McGurl, professor of literature at Stanford and the author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon.You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobin Radio ...
29 Okt 202144min
