Long Reads: Crypto Capitalism w/ Ramaa Vasudevan
For its boosters, crypto finance is a modern-day version of the California gold rush, with fortunes to be made. And it seems to have attracted as many crooks and fraudsters as the original Wild West.R...
21 Sep 202353min
Behind the News: Postliberalism w/ Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean, author of a recent article for the Los Angeles Review of Books, takes on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. Then Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute discusses the G20...
18 Sep 202353min
Jacobin Radio: The Chilean Coup, 50 Years Later (Part 2)
Suzi talks to journalist Marc Cooper, Salvador Allende's former translator, for part two of our commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile. Marc returned to Chile fo...
15 Sep 20231h 49min
The Dig Presents: Alien Jerky Sold Here
If you look, you'll see. Most people don't look. Produced by Stephen Cassidy Jones and Liza Yeager. Edited by Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir. Featuring Mark Pilkingt...
14 Sep 202355min
Behind the News: Cold War Liberalism w/ Samuel Moyn
Sam Gindin, writer and activist on labor issues, outlines the shortcomings of the UPS-Teamster deal (read his article, and a follow-up, on The Bullet website). Then Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism A...
11 Sep 202353min
The Dig: Seizing Labor's Moment w/ Alex Press & Eric Blanc
Featuring Alex Press and Eric Blanc on surging labor militancy and why US unions must seize this historic moment.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and ask our guests follow-up questions!Learn more...
9 Sep 20231h 48min
Michael and Us: Airport Paperback
Widely described as "Hollywood's response to the Lewinsky scandal," THE CONTENDER (2000) imagines a Vice Presidential confirmation process derailed by sexism and moral prudishness. We excavate some Os...
8 Sep 202353min
Jacobin Radio: The Chilean Coup, 50 Years Later (Part 1)
Suzi talks to Oscar Mendoza about the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende that came to an abrupt and bloody end 50 years ago on September 11, 1973. Pinochet's coup inaugurated a wave of viole...
5 Sep 202358min
