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Sep 23, 2020 • 48min

A World to Win: The New Shock Doctrine w/ Naomi Klein

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 the establishment used against socialist leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are “just the smallest taste of how hard they would have fought them if they’d won.”Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust, but you can help the show by signing up as a patron.
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Sep 21, 2020 • 1h 59min

Weekends: Hashtag Activism w/ Amber Frost, RBG, and Confronting Feckless Democrats

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 social-democratic politics post-2008 financial crisis. Read her new essay at Catalyst here. Subscribe to Jacobin here.
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Sep 19, 2020 • 2h 5min

The Dig: Child Safety Sex Panics with Paul Renfro

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/Please support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig
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Sep 18, 2020 • 1h 17min

The Vast Majority: Why You Should Be an Anti-Anti-Communist

"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-<wbr />merits-of-taking-an-anti-anti-<wbr />communism-stance Listen to Kristen's podcast about Alexandra Kollontai, AK47, here: https://kristenghodsee.<wbr />com/podcast
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Sep 17, 2020 • 53min

A World to Win: Life After Bernie - an interview with Meagan Day

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 path into politics, how Bernie Sanders won her over to socialism and why she thinks class politics are still the answer for the world’s foremost capitalist state. She also explores inequality and the changing world of work in a time of Covid-19.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune‘s designer Kevin Zweerink. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust, you can help the show by signing up as a patron.
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Sep 15, 2020 • 1h 12min

Jacobin Radio: Mike Davis, Meleiza Figueroa, and Ali Meders-Knight on the fires this time

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 actuality of climate change and accelerating apocalypse can be seen in the red, orange and black skies across much of California and Oregon. Our guests help us understand this new reality and how we got here. They also point to the alternative traditions of land management that can be utilized to radically change the way we deal with these megafires.
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Sep 15, 2020 • 49min

Michael and Us: Giuliani's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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: James Bond, Bill Clinton, and the state of the election.
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Sep 14, 2020 • 2h

Weekends: Woodward's COVID Tapes, Phony Right-Wing Populism, and Jane McAlevey on Labor

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.
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Sep 12, 2020 • 1h 57min

The Dig: Higher Ed in Crisis

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/"After 2020, There’s No Going Back to the Old America" by Dan Denvir in Jacobinjacobinmag.com/2020/09/joe-biden-imperialism-trump-america
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Sep 11, 2020 • 53min

Behind the News: Samuel Moyn and Juliet Schor

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.

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