Behind the News: Saudi Oil w/ Annelle Sheline
Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute explains why Saudi Arabia cut its oil production dramatically. James Meadway, former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party and now director of the Progressive...
24 Okt 202253min
Jacobin Show: A Bigger, Better Left w/ Jane McAlevey
This is sadly our final episode of the Jacobin Show. We're joined by labor organizer and author Jane McAlevey to discuss the state of the labor movement and where it needs to go to address our mountin...
21 Okt 20221h 29min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Protest in Iran
Suzi talks to Iranian scholar and activist Yassamine Mather about the growing protest movement in Iran, sparked by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini in police custody for wearing a loose hijab. The dem...
19 Okt 20221h 3min
Michael and Us: The Gondola Song
We discuss death, bureaucracy, and postwar Japan in Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece IKIRU (1952). PLUS: Everything you always wanted to know about Toronto's political culture (and upcoming municipal elec...
19 Okt 202254min
Long Reads: Antony Lerman on Antisemitism, Israel, and the Left
The question of how to define antisemitism has become a major political controversy. Many leading political figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu, now insist that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are two...
18 Okt 20221h 7min
The Dig: Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspir...
18 Okt 20222h 17min
Behind the News: Saving the Earth
Doug speaks with Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, authors of Half-Earth Socialism, about their scheme to save the world.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and po...
17 Okt 202253min
Special: Adam Tooze on Inflation and the Cost-of-Living Crisis
On the occasion of Jacobin's "Inflation" issue release party, Samir Sonti interviewed historian Adam Tooze at the Mayday Space in Brooklyn. This is audio from that recent live conversation. Samir and ...
14 Okt 202249min
