The Dig: Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American capitalist, imperialist project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the first in a three-part series, t...
12 Apr 20252h 18min
Confronting Capitalism: The End of NATO?
President Trump has threatened to upend the US’s role in NATO unless the Europeans increase their military spending. But far from just a budget reshuffling, European remilitarization massively increas...
9 Apr 202553min
Behind the News: Contradictions of the Trump Tariffs w/ Sam Gindin
Jason Wade of the UAW explains the union’s endorsement of Trump’s auto tariffs. Sam Gindin, former long-time adviser to what used to be known as the Canadian Autoworkers Union and the author of a rece...
8 Apr 202553min
Red Star Over Palestine: The Communist Movement
For many years, Palestine had one of the strongest left-wing movements in the Arab world, represented by prominent figures such as Emile Habibi, Leila Khaled, and Ghassan Kanafani. At the beginning of...
5 Apr 202535min
The Dig: Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke
Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national se...
4 Apr 20251h 43min
Jacobin Radio: Letters From Russia’s Opposition w/ Joy Neumeyer
Journalist and historian Joy Neumeyer joins Suzi from Warsaw to discuss her March 13 piece in the New York Review of Books, “Russia: Letters from the Opposition.” Last summer, Neumeyer wrote to 14 of...
2 Apr 202557min
Behind the News: Trump and the Courts w/ Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn talks about Trump and the courts. Chris Maisano, author of a recent Jacobin article about class “dealignment,” discusses class and politics. Finally, Evgenia Kovda reflects on hipster nihi...
29 Mars 202553min
Confronting Capitalism: Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?
The Republican Party has become a hegemonic force in US politics today. But how much of their dominance is predicated on Donald Trump’s personal rule? On this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek ...
26 Mars 202529min
