The Dig: Crashed with Adam Tooze
Historian Adam Tooze, the author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, explains how crisis in an unprecedentedly powerful and interconnected global banking system coursed thr...
19 Dec 20182h 2min
Jacobin Radio: Gilets Jaunes, the Gamification of Class Struggle
In this episode, Suzi talks to Jacobin contributing editor Sebastian Budgen about the gilet jaunes protests rocking France, named for the yellow traffic vests the protestors wear. The movement was ign...
17 Dec 201859min
Behind the News: Paying for Medicare for All; The Problems with Post-Work
Robert Pollin, lead author of this paper, on how to pay for Medicare for All — covering everyone and saving money. Then, Anton Jäger on the problems with the anti-/post-work position.
17 Dec 201851min
The Dig: Yellow Vests with Danièle Obono and Jerome Roos
There has been no greater exemplar of zombie neoliberalism in power than French President Emanuel Macron's imperial technocracy. Now, with the rise of the Yellow Vest (Gilets jaunes) movement, there n...
15 Dec 20181h 13min
The Dig: Bad Objects with Andrea Long Chu and Marissa Brostoff
Marissa Brostoff and Andrea Long Chu discuss Sex and the City and the X-Files, unraveling the tangled history of Marxism and queer theory, Cynthia Nixon the democratic socialist versus Miranda the str...
12 Dec 20181h 52min
Behind the News: Gun Politics
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, on the politics of guns.
10 Dec 201852min
Jacobin Radio: GM Shutters Plants; Life at the US-Mexico Border
Suzi speaks first with Mike Parker, author, rabble-rouser, and union activist, who worked for thirty-tow years in auto in Detroit, about what is behind GM’s decision to close five plants, four in the ...
5 Dec 201858min
The Dig: Haddad and Varoufakis Fighting Right-Wing Populism
On Saturday, Dan was in New York to interview Fernando Haddad and Yanis Varoufakis. Haddad is the former Workers Party mayor of São Paulo who recently lost Brazil's presidential election to far-right ...
5 Dec 20181h 47min
