Jacobin Radio

Meagan and Micah talk to journalist Anand Gopal, author of the book No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, about his article in the latest issue of our journal Catalyst, "The Arab Thermidor," on the rise and fall of the Arab Spring.You can subscribe to Catalyst here: https://catalyst-journal.com/subscribeRead "The Arab Thermidor" here: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol4/no2/the-arab-thermidorRead Micah's columns on the American election at novaramedia.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.After he named names for Joseph McCarthy, Elia Kazan made a movie about an informer. We watched ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), one of the great American films by the most famous American rat, and discuss its personal meaning for Kazan, and the historical context behind its powerful depiction of working-class New York. PLUS: a free-flowing discussion of celebrity and politics."Revisiting On the Waterfront" by Kathy M. Newman - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/revisiting-on-the-waterfront/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors of Voices from the Valley, on workers in the tech industry. Also, Paul Street, author of Hollow Resistance, on the dismal post-presidency of Barack Obama. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Political theorist Wendy Brown on how neoliberalism attacked society and democracy and in doing so laid the foundation for right-wing authoritarianism and nihilism.Episodes from the archives on neoliberalism:A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn SlobodianFamily Values with Melinda Cooper See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Suzi looks at two historic trials, in different countries and different eras, beginning with Greece, where the extraordinary trial of the neo-fascist political party Golden Dawn has just ended after five and half years, resulting in convictions and prison sentences for its top leadership. Golden Dawn was at one point the third largest political party in Greece and is known for its violence and intimidation against its opponents, immigrants, and LGBTQ communities. Suzi spoke to Attorney Thanasis Kampagiannis, one of the lawyers who pursued this case, and journalist and analyst Kevin Ovenden to get their account and analysis of the trial and of Golden Dawn, a criminal organization that operated under the guise of being a democratically elected party. Since we spoke on October 15, the state prosecutor has proposed suspension of the sentencing until appeals hearings for all but one of the Nazi convicts, which could take years. Thanasis Kampagiannis has told the media that the state prosecutor is acting as a publi

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.A former prickly TV personality tries to become a better man... a former president tries to refine his brand... on the pilot episode of the stupefyingly dull Netflix talk show MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION... WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (2018), the onetime innovator of late night is joined by Barack Obama for a gruelling conversation. PLUS: batten down the hatches for Ron Howard's "Hillbilly Elegy."Support the show and hear exclusive subscriber-only episodes at this link: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on October 17, 2020. The guest is Ben Burgis.Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission, fighting with the FMLN in El Salvador, making sense of MS-13, weaving back together the pieces of a transnational history severed by borders and violence. Lovato retells El Salvador and US history through his family's story.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigJoin The Dig book club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Grace is joined by Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, to discuss the issues that drove the party's dramatic rise in this year’s general election, the impact of the pandemic on the Irish economy, and Sinn Fein’s proposals for a unification poll in the event of a no deal Brexit. Like this week's episode? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin Magazine's Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic for a roundtable discussion of Nora Ephron's YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998), starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. We discover that this parable for gentrification may be the key to all of politics and culture in the 1990s. PLUS: thoughts on the Harris-Pence VP debate and the famous fly."Want to Know What a Return to 'Normal' Will Look Like? Stare Into Mike Pence's Dead Eyes" by Branko Marcetic - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/mike-pence-vp-vice-presidential-debate-trump See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on October 10, 2020. The guest is Wosny "Big Wos" Lambre. Wos is the culture and NBA writer for The Athletic and co-host of the Woke Bros podcast.Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug interviews Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home, on the history of the white power movement. Plus, Billy Fleming and AL McCullough on The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Micah speaks with historian Jon Wiener, coauthor with Mike Davis of the book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.You can buy the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3164-set-the-night-on-fireAnd you can listen to Jon's excellent podcast Nation magazine podcast Start Making Sense here: https://www.thenation.com/authors/start-making-sense/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.Join a Dig book club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-clubSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Max Sawicky, author of this report, on the postal service's problems and what could be done about them. Plus, Kelly Grotke on college endowments and selective austerity (janitors lose, portfolio managers win). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Grace talks to Rob Davies, senior figure in the South African Communist Party and former South African Minister for Trade and Industry. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa and the rest of the Continent, the hegemony of the ANC over South African politics, and the challenges of developing an industrial strategy in a highly financialised, highly unequal, semi-perhipheral economy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on October 3, 2020. The guest today is Daniel Bessner. Daniel is associate professor at the University of Washington and a contributing editor at Jacobin.Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Postwar American auto work in its heyday is often remembered nostalgically. But in his book Blood Sweat and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-1980, historian Jeremy Milloy emphasizes how truly brutal it was, and how the violence of the production process produced violence between workers and managers.Read more about Jeremy's book here: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/63cwe4wq9780252083389.htmlRead about the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/05/detroit-s-radical-general-baker/And here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/when-the-unions-the-enemy/Please subscribe to Jacobin! https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world, hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.What does it mean to be "America's Critic"? What does it take to be the most powerful critic the world has ever known? Several months back we discussed "Siskel & Ebert," but now we turn our attention specifically to Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer-winner who may forever be America's best-known film critic. We watch the Ebert documentary LIFE ITSELF (2014), and ponder the movie's questionable assertion that "He did not get caught up in certain ideologies of what cinema should be." PLUS: why are liberals sending thoughts and prayers to the president?NOTE: As a special experiment for the month of October 2020, we will be posting two episodes per week - one free, one Patreon-exclusive. Like the show and want more? Go to https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus.Episode #152 ("Rule of Thumb" Pt. I) - https://soundcloud.com/michael-and-us/152-rule-of-thumb"Roger Ebert's Zero-Star Movies" by Will Sloan - https://hazlitt.net/featu

Bathsheba Demuth on her monumental book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. From the 19th century through today, governments and capitalists on the Russian, Soviet, and American Arctic borderlands extract energy from a natural world whose reproductive cycles they don't comprehend and strive to convert Indigenous people into national subjects.Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.