Jacobin Radio

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Latest Episodes

Dig: Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
January 19, 2025

Hall’s method of Marxist conjunctural analysis applied to the generalized crisis that paved the way for neoliberalism's rise; a model for how we should ask questions about our world that will provide

Jacobin Radio: Mass Politics Today w/ Nancy Fraser
January 18, 2025

Trevor Ngwane also joins in this follow-up to our episode about Boris Kagarlitsky.

Behind the News: Crisis in Korea w/ Tim Shorrock
January 16, 2025

Plus: Colette Shade on Y2K culture.

Confronting Capitalism: A Return to Materialism
January 15, 2025

Why socialists ought to foreground the material interests of workers.

Dig: Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
January 11, 2025

A comprehensive introduction to Hall's method: a Marxism without guarantees.

Behind the News: Best of 2024
January 06, 2025

Featuring Rashid Khalidi, Pankaj Mishra, Annelle Sheline, Aziz Rana, and others.

Behind the News: Farewell Biden w/ Branko Marcetic
January 03, 2025

Plus: Santiago Prez on the class composition of elite colleges.

Confronting Capitalism: Why Elites Love Identity Politics
January 01, 2025

How Democrats came to favor a form of politics incapable of fighting oppression.

Jacobin Radio: Reversing the Left's Decline w/ Bill Fletcher Jr.
December 27, 2024

Three activist-scholars discuss Boris Kagarlitsky's latest book.

Dig: Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria w/ Bassam Haddad
December 24, 2024

Honoring the joy felt by Syrians while taking stock of a bad geopolitical situation.