Jacobin Radio

Micah and producer Sarah Hurd close out the year from hell with a look at the highs and lows of 2020.

From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case that neoliberalism and social conservatism have been consistent collaborators in creating an economy that redistributed wealth ruthlessly upwards with a risk-absorbing family at its privatized center. We'll be back next week with a new episode.Listen to Antibody thedigradio.com/antibodySupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigJoin a Dig book club thedigradio.com/dig-book-club

Most of what we hear these days about what's wrong (and what's right) with the media comes from liberals. Micah and Meagan talk to leftist media scholar Victor Pickard about how socialists should think about the state of American journalism today and how we should fix it. Victor's book Democracy Without Journalism?: https://global.<wbr />oup.com/academic/product/<wbr />democracy-without-journalism-<wbr />9780190946753?cc=us&lang=en& jacobinmag.com/subscribe

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. For our annual holiday episode, we finally did the inevitable: a deep-dive into the ideology of Disney/Tim Allen joint THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994). We got a little drunk with holiday cheer on this one, folks.

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 December 19, 2020.The guest today is David Sirota. David is editor-at-large at Jacobin. He edits the Daily Poster newsletter and previously served as a senior adviser and speechwriter on Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign. Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today's geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global capitalism.Join a Dig Book Club thedigradio.com/dig-book-clubSupport this podcast at patreon.com/TheDig

This week, Grace talks to Ana Kasparian, host and executive producer for The Young Turks and now co-host of Jacobin’s Weekends series. We discuss the media landscape in the US and the importance of alternative media to the socialist movement, the progress towards a stimulus package in the US, and how progressives should relate to a Biden presidency.For the full hour-long episode, support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpodThanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. The '90s brought a wave of movies about divorced or absentee fathers/husbands, and none had more explosions than James Cameron's TRUE LIES (1994). We revisited this action classic to decipher how the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Jamie Lee Curtis marriage is a metaphor for America at the "End of History." PLUS: Pete Buttigig at McKinsey, Wong Kar-wai's "restorations," and Tom Cruise yelling about COVID.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug interviewsRodrigo Nunes, author of this article, on Bolsonaro, the appeal of pseudo-populism, and the lure of denialism. Plus: Frances Gill on progressive electoral victories in New Orleans.

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 December 12, 2020.The guest today is Richard Seymour. Richard is author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics, The Twittering Machine, and editor of Salvage magazine.Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...New issue of Jacobin out now! https://jacobinmag.com/issue/failure-...Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey