Behind the News: The Colombian Presidential Election w/ Forrest Hylton
Doug interviews Forrest Hylton on the first round of the Colombian presidential election and why it was bad news for the leftist candidate Gustavo Petro. Plus: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, author of Elite Capture...
7 Juni 202253min
The Dig: The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer
Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: T...
5 Juni 20222h 9min
Jacobin Show: What's the Matter with California? w/ Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu, author of Virtue Hoarders, joins The Jacobin Show for a discussion about the multicultural neoliberalism of California. Daniel Bessner also joins the podcast to discuss NATO and recent ...
5 Juni 20221h 34min
Michael and Us: Trust the Plan
What is a quickly-made, low-effort documentary like ONE NATION UNDER TRUMP (2016) good for? Not a lot. But one thing that this ridiculous pro-Trump hagiography provided us with was a chance to marinat...
3 Juni 202238min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: 13 Jealous Republics w/ Mike Davis
Historian, urban theorist and activist Mike Davis is writing a new book called Star Spangled Leviathan: An Economic History of American Nationalism. On May Day he read from the chapter "13 Jealous Rep...
2 Juni 20221h 5min
Behind the News: Sex, Labor, and Capitalism w/ Heather Berg
Doug interviews Heather Berg, author of Porn Work, on relations of production in sex work. Plus: Kevin Young and Leonard Seabrooke, co-authors of a paper in the Socio-Economic Review, on the contrasti...
31 Maj 202253min
The Dig: Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar
What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it? Ruth Wilson Gilmore with Alberto Toscano and Brenna...
28 Maj 20222h 8min
Long Reads: Maya Goodfellow on Resisting Racism in Britain's 'Hostile Environment'
Maya Goodfellow joins Long Reads for a discussion about racism in Britain's "hostile environment" and resistance to the repressive migration policies put forth by both Tory and Labour governments. May...
28 Maj 202252min
