Michael and Us: The Futility Consensus
The documentary WHITE NOISE (2020) follows three very prominent members of the alt-right (you'll be familiar with all of them, folks) as their fortunes rise and fall during the Trump era. We discuss t...
15 Maj 202258min
Long Reads: Tom Mills on the BBC's Partisan Politics
Tom Mills, lecturer in sociology at Aston University and the author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, joins Long Reads for a discussion about the history of the BBC, its ideological and soft-power...
14 Maj 20221h 7min
The Dig: The Return of Labor Militancy
Live from New York: Dan interviews Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Jaz Brisack of Starbucks Workers United, SEIU Local 1199NE president Rob Baril, Jacobin writer Alex Press, and Labor Notes...
13 Maj 20221h 43min
A World to Win: Turning the Earth Into Money w/ John Bellamy Foster
This week, Grace talks to John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. They discuss Marx’s metabolic theory of nature and the "metabolic rift" ...
13 Maj 202254min
Jacobin Show: Corporations Won't Save Roe or the Climate w/ Natalie Shure & Matt Huber
This week on The Jacobin Show, Natalie Shure explains why she doesn't think the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will turn out Dem voters in the midterms, Jen Pan pours some cold water on liber...
12 Maj 20221h 7min
Michael and Us: The Show About Nothing
THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) is widely remembered as a prescient film that anticipates the rise of social media and reality TV. But how accurate was its forecast, really? And what, exactly, was it saying? A...
9 Maj 202254min
The Dig: SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law w/ Aziz Rana, Amna Akbar, & Marbre Stahly-Butts
A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal court veneration, and other big questions on ...
7 Maj 20221h 44min
Jacobin Show: Why Blue Cities Keep Failing the Homeless w/ Clayton Aldern
Jen Pan speaks with Ben Burgis about why the left should continue focusing on concrete organizing and policy and not the culture wars. She also speaks with Clay Aldern, co-author of the new book Homel...
6 Maj 20221h 17min
