Jacobin Radio

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 November 15, 2020.The guest is Ronan Burtenshaw. Ronan is the editor of Tribune Magazine. Read his latest here: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/jeremy...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-...

Suzi talks to Matt Karp, contributing editor of Jacobin, about the significance of the 2020 election in geographic and demographic terms. Biden won both the popular vote and the electoral college in an election with historic turnout, but without the kind of landslide many expected — and higher turnouts seem to have inflated totals for both parties. The Democrats may have won back the Blue Wall, taking Arizona, Georgia and Nevada from the Republicans, but Trump also secured a record vote, and the Democrats did badly in down ticket races. We get Matt's insights on the Democratic Party’s election strategy and results — as well as what they portend for the Left of the Party. Suzi then talks to Mike Davis to get his analysis of the election results, looking in particular at South Texas, as well as the exurbs. In South Texas a blue wave along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville was taken for granted, but failed to materialize, and the Republicans out-organized the Democrats. Mike helps us understand why Latinos voted for Trump, despite his horrific immigration policies — and we get Mike’s take on why the Democratic Party’s strategy — that allowed a bifurcation of Trump’s handling of the pandemic and the economy — was such a disaster.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. We travel to Lumberton to plumb the dark depths of David Lynch's BLUE VELVET (1986), in which good and evil are forces that are intertwined - and not a strict dichotomy. We discuss how critics then and now have received the film's provocations, and our own relationships to Lynch's work. PLUS: red states vs blue states, Joe Biden's cabinet, and Tim Allen's discovery of Marxism.

Long Reads is a new, bi-weekly podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.Our guest today is Owen Miller, historian of modern Korea who teaches at SOAS in London.Read Miller's article "Uncovering The Hidden History of the Korean War" from June 2020 here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/korean-war-seventieth-anniversary-north-korea-southProduced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/TheDigJoin a Dig book club! Next book is Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/

Producer Sarah Hurd steps up to mic to cohost this episode with Chicago city councilor and Democratic Socialists of America member Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, talking about Joe Biden's win, the role of economic misery in votes for Donald Trump and our desperate need for real relief measures, and how the Left should approach a Biden White House. Read Micah's column on why Democrats attacking socialists for their poor election performance is absurd: https://novaramedia.com/2020/<wbr />11/10/democrats-must-stop-<wbr />attacking-socialism-their-<wbr />days-are-numbered-without-it/ Read Micah's interview with Carlos when he was kicked off a gubernatorial ticket for supporting Palestine: https://www.<wbr />jacobinmag.com/2017/09/carlos-<wbr />rosa-chicago-bds-democratic-<wbr />party

On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating the tax-avoiding corporate elite at Davos went viral – and in the latest A World to Win he discusses a range of topics from human nature to capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Workers in the United States are getting squeezed from every angle. One of the worst consequences: Americans work way too many hours, and spend way too many hours trying to figure out how to work more hours. Jamie McCallum, a sociologist at Middlebury College, explains. Our conversation in written form: https://inthesetimes.com/<wbr />article/workers-work-time-<wbr />jamie-mccallum-union-labor-<wbr />strikeBuy Jamie's book here: https://www.powells.com/<wbr />book/worked-over-how-round-<wbr />the-clock-work-is-killing-the-<wbr />american-dream-9781541618343

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 November 7, 2020. The guest is Jacobin's executive editor, Seth Ackerman.Subscribe to the channel and press the like button!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-...

Suzi talks to Robert Brenner about the political-economic dimension of the 2020 election, the country, and the pandemic – and what it means for the battles ahead. The corrupt and hated President Trump was defeated, yet millions more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. He was undone by the raging pandemic that he tried to minimize. COVID 19 wreaked havoc with an already weak economy, creating widespread economic hardship. Because Trump failed to deal with the pandemic or extend economic relief, the economic crisis threatens to get much worse. Had Trump handled it with decisive measures, we'd just be dealing with the regular features of a declining capitalism, instead of far more catastrophic ones. The Biden/Harris ticket ultimately prevailed because it meant an end to Trumpian chaos and destruction -- and represented genuine hope for compassion and decency. There's much to unpack, and we get Brenner's analysis and perspectives.