Long Reads: Antoni Kapcia on Revolutionary Cuba and the Legacy of the Castros
The historian Antoni Kapcia joins Long Reads for a conversation about Cuban politics since the revolution of 1959. Antoni is the author of several books on Cuban history, including A Short History of ...
14 Aug 20211h 17min
A World to Win: Post-Extractivist Green Transitions w/ Thea Riofrancos
This week Grace speaks to Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College and author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador.They d...
13 Aug 202143min
Primer: Covering the Labor Beat
This week, we speak with Lauren Kaori Gurley, a prolific labor reporter at Vice's Motherboard.You can listen to Primer by searching for Jacobin Radio on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podca...
13 Aug 202132min
The Dig: Jesus and John Wayne w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Dan interviews historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. "Having replaced the Jesus of the Gospels with the veng...
12 Aug 20212h 18min
Jacobin Show: Remembering Richard Trumka and Maida Springer
The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is...
11 Aug 20211h 5min
Behind the News: Riots in South Africa
Doug speaks with Sean Jacobs and William Shoki of Africa Is a Country on riots in South Africa and the long trajectory of the ANC. Plus: Max Krahé, author of a report (PDF: https://www.academieroyale....
11 Aug 202152min
Weekends: Labor's Long March w/ Vivek Chibber
Catalyst journal editor Vivek Chibber joins us to discuss the structural constraints within capitalism that make organizing the working class so difficult. We also delve into the business interests in...
10 Aug 20212h 14min
Michael and Us: Rank Punditry
With an election looming in Canada, we decided to look back on a time when Justin Trudeau's father received his punishment at the hands of the Canadian media. The National Film Board of Canada documen...
7 Aug 202142min
