Behind the News: Liza Featherstone on the Meaning of the Focus Group
Liza Featherstone, author of Divining Desire, on the history and meaning of focus groups [disclosure alert: Featherstone is the host’s wife].
5 Mars 201852min
The Dig: Nomiki Konst on the Fight Inside the Democratic Party
Nomiki Konst, a correspondent for The Young Turks and Sanders appointee to the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, talks about the Berniecrat struggle against a corrupt neoliberal establishment to democrat...
2 Mars 201841min
The Dig: Glenn Greenwald on Surveillance Hypocrisy Amid Russiagate Mania
Did the "Woke Blacks" Instagram account really cost Clinton the election? Glenn Greenwald returns to the show to ask basic but rarely asked questions about the troll army’s presumed efficacy, explain ...
28 Feb 20181h 8min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Robert Brenner on the Economy
On this “podcast-versary” of the premiere of Jacobin Radio – one year since her first podcast, Suzi Weissman invites Robert Brenner back for another extended conversation on the state of the economy, ...
21 Feb 201850min
The Dig: It’s Iron Stache
Dan talks to Randy Bryce, the Berniecrat ironworker taking on Paul Ryan, about how he plans to knockout the House Speaker, Scott Walker’s decimation of unions, and Foxconn’s con against the people of ...
21 Feb 201833min
The Dig: Aziz Rana on the Cold War’s Late Demise
What if the Cold War only just ended in November 2016, as Donald Trump grotesquely encircled and then captured the presidency, finding it, to his surprise, unguarded? The Cold War proper, of course, e...
14 Feb 20182h 22min
Behind the News: The Right on the Offense
Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University David Palumbo-Liu on the right-wing attacks on him and the question of academic freedom. The Stanford Politics article on the Thiel network P...
13 Feb 201852min
Behind the News: Our Chaotic, Militarized Present
Doug Henwood on stock market madness (longer version is here). Then Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, joins Doug to talk about the military and intelligence roots of the internet, which liv...
13 Feb 201851min
