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 ...
Oct 06, 2020•2 hr 5 min
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.<wbr />uillinois.edu/books/catalog/<wbr />63cwe4wq9780252083389.html Read about the...
Oct 05, 2020•53 min
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 t...
Oct 05, 2020•51 min
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
Oct 02, 2020•2 hr 1 min
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 Frederik deBoer, author of The Cult of Smart , on dethroning academic “excellence” as the distributor of rewards in this society. Plus, Matthew Snyder on building a community land trust in the Inland Empire of California (that CLT, CLTs in general).
Oct 01, 2020•53 min
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. On this week’s show, Grace Blakeley is joined by author, academic and activist Cornel West to discuss radical politics in the United States. West, a philosopher at Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department, gives his views on Black Lives Matter, the “neo-fascism” of Donald Trump and the need to critique the role of Amer...
Oct 01, 2020•43 min
Suzi speaks to Dean of Berkeley Law Erwin Chemerinsky about Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died September 18th. RBG’s dying wish was to be replaced by a new President -- consistent with recent history and the way that President Obama’s pick to replace Antonin Scalia was blocked by Senator Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans, who famously refused to hold hearings. But those Senators have now hypocritically reversed their previous positions on w...
Sep 29, 2020•57 min
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 September 26, 2020. The guest is Samuel Moyn. He is the Henry R. Luce professor of jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a professor of history at Yale University. His most r...
Sep 29, 2020•2 hr 6 min
Meagan and Micah discuss the new documentary The Social Dilemma , a not-worthless-but-still-often-<wbr />maddeningly-wrong documentary on the perils of social media, with Chapo Trap House 's Matt Christman.
Sep 28, 2020•43 min
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that's remaking capitalism, empire, and the carceral state. FYI: Whittaker mentioned this interview with Sarah T. Hamid on carceral technologies logicmag.io/care/community-defense-sarah-t-hamid-on-abolishing-carceral-technologies/ Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig...
Sep 25, 2020•2 hr 9 min
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world, hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. The theory that times of strife produce great art is put to the test with Jay Roach's pandemic movie COASTAL ELITES (2020), and fails resoundingly. Bette Midler, Issa Rae, Dan Levy, and others deliver monologues excoriating the Cheeto-in-Chief while making clear that the title "Coastal Elites" is only barely ironic. PLUS: the death of RBG, the collapse of LaserQuest, and the unlikely return of Screw M...
Sep 25, 2020•47 min
Suzi talks to British journalist and writer Paul Mason , former Leader of Canada's NDP Ed Broadbent , and Progressive Democrats of America's Executive Director Alan Minsky about their perspectives on the 2020 electoral campaign British journalist and writer Paul Mason shares his concerns and insights from the recent election in Britain that saw the defeat of radical Labour and the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, and the victory of Boris Johnson and Brexit politics. Paul worries that the Democratic ...
Sep 24, 2020•59 min
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. On this week’s show, Grace Blakeley is joined by academic, activist and left legend Naomi Klein to discuss the US elections, the case for the Green New Deal, and whether the world is about to face another lesson in the politics of the shock doctrine. Naomi has words of encouragement but also a warning for activists – the smears that th...
Sep 23, 2020•48 min
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 September 19, 2020. The guest is Amber A'Lee Frost. Amber is a writer and co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast. She is currently completing her first book, on the rise of...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Dan interviews historian Paul Renfro on his book Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State . Stranger Danger is also this month's Dig Book Club book. Read and discuss it with fellow listeners, and then on Zoom with Paul by signing up here: thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/ A relevant Dig ep from the archives: Melinda Cooper on her book Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism thedigradio.com/podcast/family-values-with-melinda-cooper/ Plea...
Sep 19, 2020•2 hr 5 min
"Anticommunism" — what is it and to what ends is it used? And why is "anti-anti-communism" a better way, even for those who don't consider themselves socialists? Meagan and Micah talked about this with Kristen Ghodsee and Scott Sehon. Read Kristen and Scott's article "Anti-anti-communism" here: https://aeon.co/essays/the-&lt;wbr /&gt;merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-&lt;wbr /&gt;communism-stance Listen to Kristen's podcast about Alexandra Kollontai, AK47 , here: https://kristenghods...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 17 min
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. This week, Grace talks to Meagan Day – staff writer at Jacobin and co-author of Bigger than Bernie : How we go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism – about the US presidential election, the economic and environmental crises currently sweeping through America and the future of the Left after Bernie. Meagan discusses her pat...
Sep 17, 2020•53 min
Suzi talks to writer, historian, urban and environmental theorist Mike Davis , Mechoopda Tribal Citizen and traditional land steward Ali Meders Knight , and urban geographer and environmental and social justice activist Meleiza Figueroa about the megafires engulfing much of the West Coast from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest. Our imaginations can barely comprehend the speed or scale of the catastrophe we are undergoing – along with the pandemic – and the headlines spell it out. The ...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world, hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. In the weeks after 9/11, Sir Paul McCartney gathered together his rock'n'roll friends for an all-star salute to the first responders. A behind-the-scenes look at the event, Albert Maysles' THE LOVE WE MAKE (2011) is a hair-raising depiction of what it's like to be the most famous man in the world, and a time capsule of America right after the towers fell. It's also a real-life Ricky Gervais show. PLUS...
Sep 15, 2020•49 min
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 September 12, 2020. The guest is Jane McAlevey. Jane is a union organizer and author of both No Shortcuts and A Collective Bargain . Subscribe to Jacobin magazine here ....
Sep 14, 2020•2 hr
Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya, Daniel Bessner, Simon Torracinta on the manifold crises engulfing higher ed as covid exposes and exacerbates decades of austerity and neoliberal iniquity. "House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?" by Daniel Bessner thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis "Extinction Event: Given what is to come, schools of every kind are now at risk" by Simon Torracinta nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event...
Sep 12, 2020•1 hr 57 min
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 Samuel Moyn , author of this article , on why calling Trump a “fascist” is neither accurate nor helpful. Plus: Juliet Schor , author of After the Gig , on the sharing economy and how to get beyond it....
Sep 11, 2020•53 min
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace speaks to Astra Taylor, Jerome Roos and James Schneider about their memories of the brilliant anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who tragically died last week. David Graeber was the author of many books, including Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs, and was also seminal in the early development...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Every Saturday starting 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 from September 5th, with Ariella Thornhill filling in for Ana. The guest today is Matt Karp. Matt is a historian, Jacobin contributing editor, and author of This Vast Southern Empire...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 57 min
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 Mike German on cops and white supremacists (Guardian article ; Brennan paper ) and Hadas Thier , author of A People's Guide to Capitalism , on Marx’s economics....
Sep 04, 2020•53 min
Dan interviews historian Matthew Countryman on his book Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia . Join a Dig Book Club reading group and discuss Up South with Countryman on September 12. Sign up here thedigradio.com/dig-book-club Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig
Sep 03, 2020•2 hr 11 min
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace Blakeley is joined by Walden Bello, academic, author, human rights campaigner and former member of the Filipino House of Representatives. The show discusses the history of the Philippines, Bello’s opposition to the brutal Marcos dictatorship, his longstanding fight against US imperialism and neoliberal globalisat...
Sep 02, 2020•55 min
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 Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade , on the role of shipping in the development of capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. He also speaks with Kayla Popuchet on what’s been going on in Belarus.
Aug 31, 2020•53 min
Every Saturday starting 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 from August 29th. The guest today is Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union. Subscribe to the channel and press the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin: https...
Aug 31, 2020•2 hr 4 min
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Filmmaker and Twitter personality Rob Reiner looked back at the Kennedy/Johnson era through the lens of the Obama era in LBJ (2016), the story of how an idealist's vision can only be achieved by a pragmatism... and how the pragmatist's centrism may or may not have actually camouflaged an idealist the whole time. A piece of Boomer-porn, this movie is unmistakably the vision of a Joe Biden primary voter...
Aug 30, 2020•49 min
