Latest Jacobin Podcast Episodes
Long Reads: The Death of Social Europe w/ Aurelie Dianara
Jacobin Radio - April 21, 2024 09:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsAt the end of last year, the French politician Jacques Delors died at the age of 98. Delors is best remembered for his time as president of the European Commission from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. During that time, the European Community became the European Union. The Delors Commission also ...
Behind the News: Technofeudalism? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Jacobin Radio - April 20, 2024 09:55 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsYanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their compl...
Dig: Scholars Against Genocide
Jacobin Radio - April 19, 2024 19:15 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFeaturing Noura Erakat, Avi Shlaim, Ussama Makdisi, Ilan Pappé, Ghada Ageel Hamdan, and Abdel Razzaq Takriti on the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Recorded at the World Academic Forum for Palestine in Houston. We’ll be back next week with episode eight of Thawra, our roll...
Bonus Sample #299 Selling Bliss
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 18, 2024 09:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date: 4-18-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how a tech start-up is trying to sell a shortcut to bliss - the world of drug-free psychedelic experiences - the capitalists trying to solve the loneliness epidemic REFERENCES: The Meditation Start-Up That’s Selling Bliss on...
#1249 Understanding the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians (Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 16, 2024 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOriginal Air Date 2/12/2019 Today we take a look at both the BDS movement and the backlash response to it resulting in firings and legislation in many states (and pending federally) to restrict employment and business opportunities from those who fail to pledge in writing to not support of the...
Michael and Us: Embrace the Fire w/ Alex Shephard
Jacobin Radio - April 16, 2024 14:59 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsBy the third entry of the God's Not Dead franchise, its creative team had clearly started listening to their critics. The result was a kinder, gentler right-wing Evangelical Christian drama that sought to heal divides... and failed at the box office. We welcome back New Republic writer and our r...
Behind the News: Israel and the World Court w/ Heidi Matthews
Jacobin Radio - April 15, 2024 18:02 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsHeidi Matthews surveys cases against Israel pending at the the World Court. Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, talks about Jelly Roll Morton and the hidden history of early blues music. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex ...
#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 12, 2024 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date 4/12/2024 The forces of capitalism and deregulation loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up with new focus brought to the issue by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and the series of dangerous and deadly failures from Boeing. Be part of the show! Leave u...
Dig: Thawra Ep. 7 - United Arab Republic Against Eisenhower
Jacobin Radio - April 10, 2024 21:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFeaturing Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SEVENTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the the US’s Eisenhower Doctrine, which in 1957 inaugurated a new era of imperialism in the Middle East; the Ba’ath Par...
Michael and Us: Sit Down, Sit Down
Jacobin Radio - April 10, 2024 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFor seven weeks in 1936 and 1937, workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a risky sit-down strike. A true David vs. Goliath story, their strike won recognition for the United Auto Workers and changed labor in the United States forever. With a newer UAW strike fresh in the mem...
#1621 How Democrats Lost Their Way On Economics And Are Starting To Find It Again
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 09, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date 4/9/2024 The neoliberal legacy of the New Democrats continues to loom large but it really does seem like the progressive wing of the party and the broader demand for populist economic policies has had an impact. Now people just need to know that it's happening. Be part of the show! ...
Bonus Sample #292 Someone is Wrong on the Internet
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 07, 2024 19:10 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date: 4-7-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Many facets of our society are clearly broken by capitalism, and bizarrely for some, chaos is the only thing that beings agency to their life - The delusion of RFK Jr. voters, the understandable desire to vote third party, and t...
Behind the News: Weaponizing 'Safe Space' Discourse w/ Natasha Lennard
Jacobin Radio - April 06, 2024 11:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsTrita Parsi explains why Israel is trying to expand its war to Iran and Hezbollah. Natasha Lennard analyzes the Zionist appropriation of leftish “safe space” discourse. And Stefan Yong explores the structure of the global shipping industry in light of the Baltimore bridge disaster. Behind the N...
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 05, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOriginal Air Date: 11/10/2020 Today we take a look at the long and shifting history of the myth of democracy in America. We've never had it since the beginning but the reasons have shifted, ebbed and flowed over time. Now, in the midst of an attempted slow-motion coup, we look back at this mos...
Long Reads: J. B. S. Haldane's Science and Socialism w/ Samanth Subramanian
Jacobin Radio - April 04, 2024 16:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsJ. B. S. Haldane was one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century. He played an important role in the development of genetics and the theory of evolution. Haldane was also a tireless political campaigner who gravitated towards the communist movement in the 1930s and 40s. His public...
Behind the News: How Israel Exploits the Shoah w/ Pankaj Mishra
Jacobin Radio - April 03, 2024 16:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsPankaj Mishra, author of a recent article for the London Review of Books, "The Shoah after Gaza," talks about the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust. Nancy Folbre, co-author of a recent report on household economic well-being, discusses assigning a monetary value to care work. Behin...
#1620 Threatening the 2024 Election to Subvert Democracy, from Legal Maneuvers in Congress and Unconstitutional Congressional Maps to Violent Threats Against Election Workers
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 03, 2024 09:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date 4/3/2024 As the country gears up for the election in November, we look at a variety of ways the GOP and their election-denialist supporters are preparing to subvert the democratic process to get the result they want. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or...
Dig: Thawra Ep. 6 - Cold War Heats Up
Jacobin Radio - April 02, 2024 13:28 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFeaturing Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the SIXTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the intensification of the Cold War across the Middle East. Western imperialist powers attempted to recruit Arab countrie...
Bonus Sample #297 No Laughing Matter
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - April 01, 2024 16:01 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date: 4-1-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how Trump uses humor to normalize his behavior and engage his supporters - how humor is not always a great weapon against fascism and autocracy REFERENCES: Can Parents Prevent Their Sons From Sliding to the Right? In on the...
Jacobin Radio: Russia's Election w/ Ilya Matveev
Jacobin Radio - April 01, 2024 14:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsSuzi talks to Ilya Matveev about the recent election in Russia giving Putin a fifth term in power—an election he argues was stage-managed from above. Matveev discusses how the Putin government, with increasing nationalist propaganda, has stepped up repression and persecution of critical voices a...
#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - March 30, 2024 12:20 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date 3/30/2024 We are living through an age of protest from the opposition to the Iraq war, the Arab Spring uprisings, Occupy Wall Street, through to marches against Trump, and now the war in Gaza. So, we thought we should take a look at the art and science of protest itself. Be part of ...
Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date: 3-28-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how the wealthy use psilocybin to deal with stress and break the rules of time - the working class get bath time and training on how to self-care their stress away - the REFERENCES: It’s Time to Give Up on Email The Wo...
Michael and Us: Kung Fu Bicycles
Jacobin Radio - March 27, 2024 16:10 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFor decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and, for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Wa...
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - March 26, 2024 21:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOriginal Air Date: 12/23/2021 Today we take a look at some of the history of labor struggles in America and the current wave of strikes that is giving renewed energy to the labor union movement and the struggle for better working conditions for all. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or...
Behind the News: AIPAC Influence w/ David Moore
Jacobin Radio - March 24, 2024 13:30 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsDavid Moore outlines how AIPAC is using GOP contributors’ money to go after progressive Democrats. Meron Rapoport discusses how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel. Jamieson Webster speaks about the social aspects of mental disorder among the young. Behind the News, hosted by Doug ...
#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - March 23, 2024 21:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date 3/23/2024 Equality has been at the heart of civil rights movements for decades but what we have failed to see is that in striving for equality we cannot help but reinforce the unquestioned preexisting structures of society which, themselves, may be at fundamental odds with true freedo...
Dig: Thawra Ep. 5 - The Struggle for Syria
Jacobin Radio - March 23, 2024 15:54 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFeaturing Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FIFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the early years of a struggle for Syria that would decisively shape the Arab world: the fight for independence from Franc...
Dig: Thawra Ep. 5 – The Struggle for Syria
Jacobin Radio - March 23, 2024 15:54 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsFeaturing Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FIFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the early years of a struggle for Syria that would decisively shape the Arab world: the fight for independence from Franc...
Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - March 21, 2024 17:18 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date: 3-21-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how AI became a tool in the gender culture war - the real reasons "soft girls" and "tradwives" are a thing REFERENCES: You Will Not Believe the Dumb Reason My Son Gave Me for Refusing to Wipe His Butt AI has come to the ge...
#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Groomers, and Detransitioning Misconceptions
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy - March 19, 2024 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsAir Date 3/19/2024 We break down some of the pseudoscience the trans panic is built on, look at the political drive to erase trans people, understand how language of panic shifts over time, and present and alternate view of societal healing for a healthier humanity. Be part of the show! Leav...