David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program and CUNY on how US health policy got us to this desperate pass. Then, Helen Yaffe on Cuban interferon and COVID-19, and the country’s biotech industry and health system (YUP article here ).
Podcasting in the time of coronavirus: Suzi's new episode of Jacobin Radio features interviews with Marxist greats Mike Davis and Robert Brenner . Mike Davis is writing widely on the COVID-19 pandemic in Jacobin and the Nation . Fifteen years ago, Davis published The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu, and he sees the coronavirus pandemic as the familiar monster now at our door. We get his views on the huge challenges coronavirus poses for humanity, and the impotence of global c...
Coronavirus is decimating the planet right now, and it's made far worse by the fact that we don't have a public healthcare system. We talked to Adam Gaffney, president of Physicians for a National Health Program and a doctor at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, about this. Forgive the self-promo in a time of society-wide breakdown, but: the book by host Micah Uetricht and Jacobin staff writer Meagan Day, Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic So...
Dan interviews Mike Davis about everything we are all suddenly trying to figure out. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
Dan interviews NYC DSA down-ballot candidates. Samelys López is running for a US House seat in the Bronx. Jabari Brisport, Marcela Mitaynes, and Phara Souffrant Forrest are running for seats in the state legislature. All four are campaigning on a platform of housing justice. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
Kali Akuno on why black voters like Joe Biden. Then, Dibyesh Anand on the belief system of India’s Hindu fascists (book here ).
An interview on how the Democratic Party got here today with Ryan Grim. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
Pep talk time: Dan interviews Rep. Ilhan Omar to give us some perspective and prepare us for the fight ahead. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
Mass incarceration has rightly become a major topic of discussion and organizing on the Left recently. But our guests today, Adaner Usmani and John Clegg, have some issues with how we talk about that incarceration system and many of the standard strategies for how we go about dismantling it. John and Adaner are the authors of the Catalyst article "The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration," which you can read here: https://catalyst-<wbr />journal.com/vol3/no3/the-<wbr /&...
Suzi looks at the significance and aftermath of South Carolina and Super Tuesday, asking basic questions about the disconnect between the enthusiasm and support for progressive policies and Bernie Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren to a lesser degree), and the reality of people then voting for Biden. Was it fear, motivated by the constant drum of the corporate media that Bernie is not electable but Biden is? We get views and analysis from our guests Matt Karp and Adolph Reed ....
<style></style> Super Tuesday has come and gone, and Joe Biden is now the frontrunner. There's nobody better to talk about this stuff than Jacobin staff writer and Senior Biden Correspondent Branko Marcetic, author of the new book Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. We discussed Biden and the state of the race as a whole. Branko's book is excellent. You can buy it for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/store...
A special pod ep from Sunday's live Boston canvass kickoff with Michael Brooks and Natalie Shure. Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
Dan interviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership . Come see Dan discuss All-American Nativism in Boston on 3/4 facebook.com/events/522615241724284/ Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
Live show with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press in Cambridge, MA for Bernie 2020. Recorded the night of Nevada caucuses. Please support us with your money at www.thedigradio.com
Colleen Eren , author of Bernie Madoff and the Crisis , on why the Ponzi schemer deserves release from prison (op-ed here ). Then, Jamieson Webster psychoanalyzes money and left melancholy (interview with Fiona Alison Duncan here )....
The Catholic Church was a powerful force throughout the first half of the 20th century. It was a force for right-wing reaction. That’s what Dan discusses today with Giuliana Chamedes, the author of the remarkable book A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe . Live Massachusetts Dig for Bernie! With Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press at Harvard this Saturday 2/2, 7pm: facebook.com/events/604111176850753/ Please support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/T...
Yasha Levine on Chrystia Freeland, Ukrainian Nazis, and the proxy war against Russia. Then, Lizzie O’Shea , author of Future Histories , on fake techno-utopianism and imagining a better future.
Bernie Sanders has won two states in a row, first Iowa and then New Hampshire. But how exactly did he do it? We talked to Jacobin's Shawn Gude, who gives some details about what the Sanders campaign's organizing looked like in Iowa, who ended up turning out for him, why Sanders has to overcome the barrier of post-Obama political despondency, and the campaign's path forward post-New Hampshire. Here's Shawn's article from Iowa: https://jacobinmag.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;2020/02/iowa-working-class...
Racism on the right wing is changing in weird and important ways, and liberal anti-racism offers no viable solution. Dan interviews Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joe Lowndes, authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity . Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
Suzi talks to Ansar Fayyazuddin <font color="#365f91">, t</font><font color="#000000">heoretical physicist and writer, who has written on geo-engineering as an approach to mitigate the climate disaster that he contends offers a false solution, filled with fallacies bound to create unforeseen consequences. Ansar’s critique is lucid and devastating, and he argues that geo-engineering technological fixes will not get us out of this mess, but will further entrench us in a deeply ec...
Columbia Point tenants face new management and a private police force. This is the final episode of the first season of People's History Podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era. We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next t...
Sofia Japaridze on Congressionally protected wage theft in the libertarian paradise of post-Soviet Georgia. Then, Margaret Kimberley , author of Prejudential , on the long, oppressive relationship of presidents to black people.
The protests have subsided but coronavirus has only created a deeper crisis for government legitimacy. Dan interviews long-time Hong Kong activist and writer Au Loong Yu. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig
John Clegg, co-author of this article , on the economic roots of mass incarceration. Then, Tobita Chow and Jake Werner , authors of this paper , on the US–China trade war
Dan interviews philosopher Martin Hägglund on how the way we conceive of our finite lives here on earth shapes our critique of capitalism and construction of socialism. Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
Six members of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America won election to the Chicago city council last year. One of them is Rossana Rodriguez, elected as alderwoman of the 33rd ward on Chicago's Northwest Side. If you want the full backstory of Rossana's life, you can listen to the episode of The Dig that I guest hosted back in 2018: https://blubrry.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;jacobin/38881826/the-dig-&lt;wbr /&gt;rossana-rodrguez-sanchez-a-&lt;wbr /&gt;socialist-for-chicago/ We ...
Jessica Whyte , author of The Morals of the Market , on the relations between neoliberalism and human rights politics. Then, Michele Masucci and Joanna Warsza , editors of Red Love , on Alexandra Kollontai and her views on love, comradeship, and the family....
Daniel Denvir shamelessly interviewed on his own podcast by Astra Taylor about All-American Nativism. Upcoming events: 1/24 All-American Nativism Brooklyn book launch with Aziz Rana facebook.com/events/606979320053356/ 1/27 Race for Profit: A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [Live Dig interview in Providence] facebook.com/events/1416403061860397/ 1/28 Rhode Island Students for Bernie Kickoff Rally with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Linda Sarsour facebook.com/events/618607768707911/ Book t...
Bernie Sanders is not just the candidate with the strongest left platform as well as the only candidate with a vision of social and political change coming from the bottom-up rather than the top down. He is also the most electable candidate. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin. She's the coauthor, with Matt Karp, of "Bernie Is the Candidate Who Can Beat Trump. Here’s Why" in Jacobin, which you can read here: https://jacobinmag.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;201...
In the turmoil of busing, Betty Ann Jones advocates armed defense. Betty Washington and Dorothy Haskins lead a "wade-in" to protest segregation. This is the penultimate episode of the first season of People's History Podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era. We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest ...
