Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The End of the Occupation in Afghanistan
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Berkeley Law explains the California recall procedure and argues that the rules of the recall violate constitutional principles, making the September 14 Recall election u...
24 Aug 202159min
Weekends: Capitalism Alone w/ Branko Milanovic
Economist Branko Milanovic joins Weekends to discuss the public's declining faith in capitalism, whether viable alternatives exist, how the system generates inequality, and whether social democracy ca...
23 Aug 20211h 59min
Primer: Stronger Than Steel
This week, we speak with Michael Goldfield, a former labor and civil rights activist and professor emeritus at Wayne State University and the author of several books, including The Southern Key: Class...
21 Aug 202133min
Jacobin Show: Reviving the Fight for Medicare for All
Organizer Natalie Shure discusses strategies for reviving the fight for Medicare for All in the US after the pandemic. Organizer Christie Offenbacher details the ongoing battle to establish universal ...
20 Aug 20211h 33min
A World to Win: Monopsony Capitalism w/ Ashok Kumar
This week, Grace speaks with Ashok Kumar, senior lecturer of political economy at Birkbeck and author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age.They discuss ho...
19 Aug 202137min
Weekends: The Fall of Andrew Cuomo w/ Liza Featherstone
Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone joins Weekends to discuss how elite feminists worked with Andrew Cuomo behind the scenes to help bury his own sexual harassment scandal. On Fridays, Ana Kasparian a...
16 Aug 20211h 42min
Michael and Us: Oliver's Twist w/ Anders Lee
In 1994, the most vilified member of the Reagan administration tried to stage a political comeback, and it almost worked. The documentary A PERFECT CANDIDATE (1996) follows Oliver North's attempt to u...
16 Aug 202137min
Behind the News: On Anti-Vaxxers
Doug speaks with Mia Jankowicz, reporter for Business Insider, about anti-vaxxers, notably Sherri Tenpenny. Plus: Sanford Jacoby, author of Labor in the Age of Finance, on unions’ weird alliance with ...
14 Aug 202153min
