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Sep 30, 2026 · 49:13
Karl Marx famously declared that he was not a Marxist. But his theoretical work spawned many branches of research, political movements, and heated debate. Can we identify a set…
Sep 29, 2026 · 54:32
Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser joins Suzi to discuss his new book, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History , which recovers a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism, told through…
Sep 28, 2026 · 53:00
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Live Laugh Love , dives into the world of right-wing evangelical Christian women. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of…
Sep 24, 2026 · 48:22
Over the past few weeks, Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, has launched a major offensive. The offensive could have major implications for the world…
Sep 22, 2026 · 53:01
Jennifer Berkshire talks about the anti-school voucher backlash. Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left , discusses what that formation brings to politics. Read…
Sep 21, 2026 · 2:26:32
Featuring Ben Shanahan, the architect of socialist David Morales’ victorious campaign to be the Democratic nominee for mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. The Providence left ran…
Sep 16, 2026 · 46:45
It’s all too common for people to associate the mere existence of markets with capitalism. But because we know markets had a life before capitalism, we can also imagine them…
Sep 15, 2026 · 1:05:55
A prisoner is held, in theory, for something they did. The people inside America’s roughly 250 immigration detention camps are held for who they are, or where they’re from. That…
Sep 14, 2026 · 53:01
Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete , discusses the terrors and possible promise of artificial intelligence. Dave Zirin looks back on the life and work of Howard Zinn, the…
Sep 12, 2026 · 1:03:17
The US Federal Reserve appointed a new chair earlier this year. Kevin Warsh replaced Jerome Powell, who had been under constant fire from the Trump administration. For many,…
Sep 9, 2026 · 1:48:10
Featuring Daniel Denvir and Ben Mabie answering questions posed by you, our listeners. Submit a question for our next mailbag: speakpipe.com/ListenerMailbag Support The Dig at…
Sep 8, 2026 · 53:01
Alejandro Velasco looks at Trump’s oil grab in Venezuela. Alex Vitale imagines a post-carceral future. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics…
Sep 2, 2026 · 58:45
Unions have more public support than just about anything else in the US, and yet, their membership has cratered. This poses an immense challenge to left-wing politicians, who…
Sep 1, 2026 · 59:38
Producer and guest host Mel Figueroa speaks with economist Michael Roberts about the teetering house of cards that is the US and global economy, and how it is all connected to…
Sep 1, 2026 · 2:08:53
Featuring David Wallace-Wells, Madison Condon, and Moira Birss on how insurance companies profit off climate catastrophe — and, in doing so, ensure that people and the planet…
Aug 31, 2026 · 53:00
David McNally, author of Slavery and Capitalism , discusses the political economy of the institution. Plus: Billy Fleming, author of Building Postcarbon Futures , explains how we…
Aug 26, 2026 · 56:39
Mike Davis died in 2022, but his work is more urgent than ever. As record temperatures, fires, floods, El Niño, and megadroughts threaten the planet, we hear his prescient 1995…
Aug 25, 2026 · 53:01
Aurélie Daher, author of a piece for Responsible Statecraft , looks at the destruction Israel is visiting upon southern Lebanon. Annie McClanahan, author of Beneath the Wage ,…
Aug 19, 2026 · 45:37
Advanced capitalist countries have recently rediscovered the role of industrial policy to build out key economic sectors like semiconductors and AI. But what happens if business…
Aug 18, 2026 · 53:01
Jodi Dean, who has a new Substack on the issue, surveys how AI has been terrible. Anatol Lieven, author of a new article for New Left Review ’s Sidecar blog, looks at the bloody…
Aug 15, 2026 · 2:08:27
Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund . The second in a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig…
Aug 13, 2026 · 1:13:22
From the very start of the Gaza genocide, Western media outlets were happy to repeat the most outlandish claims from Israeli government officials. One of the most notorious…
Aug 11, 2026 · 58:41
“Men in hard hats were once the heart of America’s working class. Now it is women in scrubs,” says historian Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift , who joins Suzi to explain…
Aug 10, 2026 · 53:01
Aditya Nigam looks at the “Cockroach” protest movement in India. Then, Gerald Epstein and Juliet Schor outline a detailed set of proposals to transform the US economy. Read their…
Aug 6, 2026 · 1:32:13
Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund . The first episode of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at…
Aug 5, 2026 · 48:29
Libertarian thinkers like Milton Friedman like to say that capitalism not only gave birth to democracy but also is the ideal economic system to complement democracy. But while…
Aug 1, 2026 · 2:15:36
The eighth and final episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global…
Jul 31, 2026 · 59:30
Over the last couple of years, media coverage of China has focused on the trade war launched by the Trump administration. While Trump and his tariffs have been grabbing the…
Jul 28, 2026 · 1:37:26
In a jam-packed final installment of The People’s Game on Jacobin Radio, Mel and Alan speak with five distinguished guests. The feature interview is with Jules Boykoff, author of…
Jul 27, 2026 · 53:01
Michaela Brangan, co-chair of the group that wrote DSA’s new platform, speaks about the group’s vision. Hagen Blix, co-author of Why We Fear AI , examines exactly that. Behind…
Jul 22, 2026 · 32:08
We try to cover a lot of topics on this show, and that inevitably leads to many more follow-up questions. Luckily for you, on this latest episode of Confronting Capitalism ,…
Jul 20, 2026 · 53:01
Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Country of Lords , traces the anti-egalitarian tradition in American politics. Aziz Rana discusses the tensions between the Declaration and the…
Jul 15, 2026 · 29:59
The World Cup has entered its final week, and so far we’ve seen unprecedented levels of direct political interference in the organization of the tournament. The FIFA president…
Jul 15, 2026 · 2:10:56
The seventh episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Jul 14, 2026 · 53:58
In another installment of The People’s Game on Jacobin Radio , co-hosts Alan Minsky and Meleiza Figueroa speak with eminent sports historian David Goldblatt, who lays out all the…
Jul 13, 2026 · 53:01
Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class , on the private equity racket — who they are, what they do. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics…
Jul 8, 2026 · 50:15
On July 14, 1789, the storming of the Bastille in Paris marked the transition of the French Revolution from an elite negotiation into a truly mass event. But what kicked off this…
Jul 7, 2026 · 55:11
On Jacobin Radio , the team behind the People’s Game podcast continue their unique coverage of the 2026 World Cup, analyzing the men’s football games on the field as well as the…
Jul 6, 2026 · 53:01
Aaron Benanav, author of a report for the Autonomy Institute, on what a future socialist society might look like. Amy Laura Hall, author of Erecting the Pulpit , on muscular…
Jul 2, 2026 · 51:37
In September 2025, Elon Musk spoke by video link to a fascist rally in London. Tommy Robinson, the organizer of the rally and a convicted criminal, has been trying to incite a…
Jul 1, 2026 · 2:41:43
The sixth episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Jun 30, 2026 · 53:01
Two views from Behind the News regulars on the US-Iran negotiations: Anatol Lieven and Mouin Rabbani. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and…
Jun 25, 2026 · 1:02:27
On this edition of Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman , guest co-hosts Alan Minsky and Mel Figueroa present another installment of The People's Game , a quadrennial series that…
Jun 24, 2026 · 45:50
Donald Trump has made the issue of immigration a key battleground in US politics. But with public opinion swinging against the brutal ICE raids and deportations over the past…
Jun 22, 2026 · 53:01
Stuart Schrader, author of Blue Power , explains how the political heft of cops allows them to get away with murder. Angela Jones, author of Sex in Public , looks at the social…
Jun 18, 2026 · 49:20
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after the record-breaking IPO of his company SpaceX. Musk presents the firm’s economic take off as the necessary means…
Jun 17, 2026 · 1:26:25
The show’s co-producers Alan Minsky and Meleiza Figueroa fill in for Suzi with a special installment of their quadrennial podcast series, The People’s Game , which covers the…
Jun 16, 2026 · 53:01
J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, authors of the new book Against Money , explain that curious stuff and enumerate its problems. Moira Weigel, author of a recent article for the…
Jun 15, 2026 · 2:09:28
The fifth episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Jun 10, 2026 · 47:14
In the midst of Graham Platner’s high-profile senate race in Maine, several media commentators jumped on whether he would fit within his own definition of the working class. Do…
Jun 8, 2026 · 1:31:47
Featuring Maine candidate for governor Troy Jackson, Wisconsin candidate for governor Francesca Hong, New York State Senate candidate Aber Kawas, and victorious Tempe, Arizona…
Jun 5, 2026 · 1:06:15
On January 1 this year, Mohammed Harbi died at the age of 92. Harbi was one of the leading historians of modern Algeria and the movement that led it towards independence. Harbi…
Jun 3, 2026 · 1:59:56
The fourth episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Jun 1, 2026 · 51:40
Greg Grandin, author of a recent article for the New York Review of Books , looks at how Pope Leo was shaped by his time in Peru. A.J.A. Woods, author of The Cultural Marxism…
May 27, 2026 · 48:26
Socialists have long predicted capitalism’s overthrow and replacement by a better system. But do we have any reason to believe capitalism must come to an end? On the latest…
May 26, 2026 · 53:00
Jake Werner of the Quincy Institute analyzes the Trump–Xi summit and US–China relations generally. Gareth Gore, author of Opus , talks about Opus Dei, a secretive, cult-like…
May 26, 2026 · 54:59
The rise of the far right is the defining political crisis of our time. But are we analyzing it correctly? Suzi speaks with David Ost about his book Red Pill Politics:…
May 25, 2026 · 1:23:31
This one is different: an episode cross-posted from the new podcast Fighting Fascism , where Dig host Daniel Denvir gets behind the guest mic to discuss his political work beyond…
May 21, 2026 · 1:01:25
Britain held local and regional elections earlier this month that proved to be catastrophic for the Labour government of Keir Starmer. Labour fell behind the right-wing party…
May 20, 2026 · 1:42:35
Featuring New York U.S. House candidate Claire Valdez, Colorado U.S. House candidate Melat Kiros, Michigan U.S. House candidate William Lawrence, Massachusetts state Senate…
May 19, 2026 · 1:11:44
Suzi speaks with Simon Pirani about his book Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts and the film Try Me For Treason . Russian exile activist…
May 18, 2026 · 53:01
Two views of the US–Israeli war on Iran: Laleh Khalili and Mouin Rabbani. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex…
May 15, 2026 · 2:02:17
Featuring Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, Tennessee US House candidate Justin Pearson, New York US House candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, Oregon state House…
May 13, 2026 · 1:00:28
Over time, the Soviet Union developed a system of centralized planning that became synonymous with socialism. How did the system work? What did it get right? And why did it…
May 11, 2026 · 53:01
Excerpts from an event sponsored by the NYC DSA’s Academy for Socialist Education on the domestic and foreign aspects of Trumpism, featuring historians Nikhil Pal Singh and Greg…
May 7, 2026 · 2:16:26
Featuring Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed on organizing working-class Asian New Yorkers into Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and then building power under a democratic socialist mayor. A…
May 4, 2026 · 53:01
Dylan Gottlieb, author of the new book Yuppies , explores how that often risible but pioneering social formation took over NYC. Ervand Abrahamian looks at the politics of Iran, a…
Apr 30, 2026 · 1:22:58
This week Jacobin Radio presents “In the Imperial Crosshairs: Trump's War and Its Consequences for the People of Iran and Ukraine,” a panel organized by Haymarket Books that took…
Apr 29, 2026 · 1:06:57
Throughout the 20th century, socialism came to be associated with both central planning and shortages. But could democratic ownership of the economy work alongside market…
Apr 28, 2026 · 2:01:24
Featuring Paul Heideman on how the Republican Party became so spectacularly unhinged. How the disorganization of the party and the disorganization of the US capitalist class have…
Apr 27, 2026 · 53:00
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed , on Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers…
Apr 24, 2026 · 51:31
This is the second part of a two-part interview with Sebastian Budgen, senior editor at Verso, about French politics and the state of the French left. In our previous episode, we…
Apr 22, 2026 · 1:01:36
Suzi speaks with Kate Levin, Janis Yue, and Sanjay Madhav, lead organizers of United Faculty-UAW, about their unionization drive at the University of Southern California (USC),…
Apr 21, 2026 · 2:40:35
The third episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Apr 20, 2026 · 53:00
Hungary’s long-serving authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in an April 12 election. We get two views of what that means, from historian Kyle Shybunko and…
Apr 15, 2026 · 1:06:28
How effective has the Left’s political strategy been since the first Bernie Sanders campaign? And how has our relationship to the Democratic Party changed? On this special…
Apr 14, 2026 · 57:54
Suzi speaks with political economist Clara Mattei about her new book, Escape from Capitalism . The title is provocative: What does it mean to escape capitalism? Not reform it,…
Apr 13, 2026 · 53:00
Andrew Cockburn, author of Washington Is Burning , examines “the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation’s political system.” Hadas Thier then discusses crypto in the age of…
Apr 10, 2026 · 2:37:18
The second episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Apr 9, 2026 · 35:58
Two years ago, the French president Emmanuel Macron called snap elections for the National Assembly. The far right was widely expected to win and form a government for the first…
Apr 6, 2026 · 53:01
Gabriel Hetland, author of a recent article for the Intercept , looks at what’s been happening in Venezuela since the kidnapping of Maduro. David Griscom, author of The Myth of…
Apr 1, 2026 · 47:47
Our modern economy is now dominated by massive mega-companies like Amazon and Walmart, with operations spanning many different sectors and employment types. With the US labor…
Mar 30, 2026 · 53:01
Mouin Rabbani talks about the Iran war and its many complications. Helen Yaffe talks about Trump’s oil embargo on Cuba — its effects and how Cubans are reacting. Behind the News…
Mar 28, 2026 · 2:49:33
Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran — and beyond. Support The Dig at…
Mar 27, 2026 · 59:54
Donald Trump is a huge fan of Nayib Bukele, the current president of El Salvador. Last April, Bukele visited the White House and offered to help with a campaign of domestic…
Mar 24, 2026 · 53:01
Nancy Fraser goes beyond the class/identity disputes. Natalie Y. Moore, who wrote a recent article for Hammer and Hope and EHRP, looks at effects of federal layoffs on black…
Mar 23, 2026 · 2:20:43
Nusantara is a new Dig series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history.…
Mar 18, 2026 · 47:12
The US-Israeli war against Iran may have been initiated without any coherently stated goals or popular support, but we can already see that it’s a horrific quagmire. It also…
Mar 17, 2026 · 57:37
Two weeks into the US-Israeli assault on Iran, every prediction of its architects has collapsed. The regime stands. Protests haven't reignited. Iran’s new Supreme Leader — more…
Mar 16, 2026 · 53:01
Historian Nikhil Pal Singh, author of a recent article for Equator, talks about how the Trump regime weaves foreign and domestic policy into a single domain of impunity, Homeland…
Mar 11, 2026 · 32:02
We’ve now entered the second week of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Donald Trump’s War Secretary Pete Hegseth has boasted about the US military machine bringing “death and…
Mar 11, 2026 · 1:01:51
What are Iranians actually experiencing right now? Suzi speaks with Yassamine Mather, an Iranian socialist who has been in direct contact with relatives, colleagues, and comrades…
Mar 10, 2026 · 2:06:14
Featuring Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what the war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why the US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid historic anti-war…
Mar 9, 2026 · 53:01
Behrooz Ghamari, author of The Long War on Iran , looks at the politics and culture of the country. Anatol Lieven analyzes the effects of the war on Iran on the region and world.…
Mar 5, 2026 · 1:07:57
Featuring Geoff Simpson on Justice Democrats’ massive 2026 slate of insurgent House candidates taking on AIPAC/Big Tech money. Also: the history of post-Bernie 2016 primary…
Mar 4, 2026 · 1:03:17
Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text Labor and Monopoly Capital to answer that question.…
Mar 3, 2026 · 1:40:32
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the…
Mar 2, 2026 · 53:01
Tessa West, professor of psychology at NYU, examines the social dynamics that kept the Epstein gang together. Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires , discusses AI. And Wanda…
Feb 25, 2026 · 1:05:22
Last October, the war in Sudan took a new turn with the capture of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces. The city in western Sudan had been under siege by the RSF for more than…
Feb 24, 2026 · 47:38
Suzi speaks to Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov, who says the current “peace process” is a dangerous illusion. Russia’s goal, he argues, is not compromise but subjugation —…
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