The Dig: Strike! with Jane McAlevey
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29 Okt 20211h 53min
Jacobin Show: Slavoj Žižek on the Legacy of the Russian Revolution
Slavoj Žižek discusses World War I and the other forces that shaped the Russian Revolution, how we should understand the Red Terror, the Russian Civil War, and the legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Plus, Ž...
28 Okt 20212h 9min
Behind the News: Lebanon Crisis & COVID Conspiracies
Doug speaks with Mona Fawaz on the dire economic and political crises in Lebanon. Plus: Mark Dery, author of this article, on conspiracy theories, with special emphasis on Mark Crispin Miller. Behind...
26 Okt 202153min
Weekends: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine w/ Andrew Cockburn
Journalist Andrew Cockburn, author of the new book The Spoils of War, explains why the United States’ astronomical Pentagon budget hasn’t led to better national defense and what’s driving the growth o...
25 Okt 20212h 4min
Long Reads: Vanessa Chishti on Kashmir's History of Repression and Resistance
Vanessa Chishti joins Long Reads for a discussion about Kashmir's past and present. Vanessa is professor of history at the O.P. Jindal Global University in Delhi, India. Long Reads is a Jacobin podcas...
24 Okt 202159min
Primer: Microworking for the Weekend
We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism, a new book from Verso Books. Jones is also a researcher for the think tank...
22 Okt 202139min
A World to Win: Net Zero Is Not Enough w/ Holly Jean Buck
Grace speaks to Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo about her new book Ending Fossil Fules: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough. They discuss the...
22 Okt 202136min
Jacobin Show: Behind the Republican Party Crack-up w/ Paul Heideman
Paul Heideman debunks the myth that the Republicans are now a working-class party and explores how the structural weakness of the American party system and conflicting business interests drove the Rep...
21 Okt 20211h 39min
