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When human rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the oil giant Chevron, the company retaliated by setting out to destroy Donziger’s life. Now in his twentieth month of house arrest on the orders of a Chevron-linked judge, his Kafkaesque story is a window into the corrupt and corporate-captured US legal system. Visit the #FreeDonziger website - https://www.freedonziger.org/ The Steven Donziger Legal Defense Fund - https://www.donzigerdefense.<wbr />com/ A text version of this interview can be found in Jacobin, here - https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2021/04/attorney-steven-<wbr />donziger-chevron-ecuador-<wbr />prosecution-corruption-trial

We travel back to Nixon's America with 1974's DEATH WISH, the franchise-spawning Silent Majority hit in which Charles Bronson transforms from a bleeding-heart liberal to a gun-wielding avenging angel. We discuss how the film's reactionary politics and apocalyptic vision of an American city are still being replicated in conservative media today. PLUS: The Last Blockbuster, new advancements in product-placement technology, and an unlikely new kingpin in the NFT landscape.

This week, Grace talks to Mat Lawrence, director of the think tank Common Wealth, and Laurie Layborn Langton, author and researcher, about their new book Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown.Planet on Fire argues that ‘the political status quo has no answer to the devastating and inequitably distributed consequences of the climate emergency’ and, in this episode, the guests discuss the multiple overlapping ecological, economic, and political crises the world is facing in the era of environmental breakdown, as well as how the Left should respond.You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the episode from April 21, 2021, hosted by Jen and Paul. Historian Matt Karp joins us to discuss how and why identity politics surface during eras of extreme economic inequality in the US, and the different schools of left-wing history. Read Matt's essay: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/the-po...​ Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod... Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, he speaks with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, authors of Bigger than Bernie, just out in paperback, on the legacy of the Sanders campaigns. Plus: Jane McAlevey, author and organizer, on why the union lost to Amazon in Alabama (Nation article here).

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 political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from April 17, 2021. Leigh Philips, Jacobin's science writer, joins us to discuss the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause and the global vaccine rollout. We also look at Janet Yellen's proposed global tax and the predatory investors buying up land during the housing crisis. Leigh is the author of Austerity Ecology and People’s Republic of Walmart as well as a forthcoming Jacobin article on state failure and the global COVID rollout. Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod... Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

A gay communist atheist directing the most reverential film ever made about Jesus Christ? It happened! Pier Paolo Pasolini's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (1964) uses neorealist aesthetics to emphasize the material side of Jesus's life over the divine, and foregrounds His politics over his miracles. PLUS: the pleasures and perils of being extremely online during a pandemic, and what conservatives say about democracy behind closed doors."A Cinema of Poetry" by Patrick Rumble - https://www.artforum.com/film/patrick-rumble-on-pier-paolo-pasolini-38175"Behind Closed Doors, Republican Plutocrats Conspiring Against Democracy Let the Mask Slip" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/04/voting-rights-hr1-bill-republicans-antidemocratic"Inside the Koch-Backed Effort to Block the Largest Election-Reform Bill in Half a Century" by Jane Mayer - https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/inside-the-koch-backed-effort-to-block-the-largest-election-reform-bill-in-half-a-centuryCheck out our Patreon for exclusive bonus episodes - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

Long Reads looks in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.The guest is Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the London School of Economics, and author of an essay about Rosa Luxemburg, "Reform to Revolution," which can be found here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/reform-revolution-rosa-luxemburg-socialism-democracyProduced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion:The Liberal to Ultra-Left Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle by Brian W.Liberalism, ultraleftism or mass action, a speech delivered by Socialist Workers Party leader Peter Camejo.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod host a new episode of The Jacobin Show, offering socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the episode from April 14, 2021. Kristen Ghodsee, author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, joins us to discuss socialist sex education and how Eastern European state socialism helped women gain more independence from men and, by extension, have better sex lives. Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod... Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag