A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, …
Don’t Criminalize Sex Work with Melissa Gira Grant
Journalist @melissagira eviscerates a newspaper investigation that conflates sex work with trafficking. She examines how reporters unwittingly fall into a savior complex, which ends up criminalizing workers in the name …
The Hollow Center with Molly Ball and Eric Levitz
Centrist business elites believe in an America that doesn’t exist. Two guests this episode: first, @mollyesque talks about her piece “On Safari in Trump’s America” for The Atlantic. Her article follows …
Policing for the Market with Brenden Beck
Why have the size of American police departments grown so dramatically in recent decades, even as crime rates have fallen? One factor may have been the growing centrality of real …
Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana discusses his pivotal book, The Two Faces of American Freedom. Rana overturns conventional accounts of American history, from settlement and Revolution to the Populists and the present day. In …
Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment
The exposure of Weinstein’s predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in the workplace. Jacobin editor @alexnpress discusses two new pieces she wrote …
Corey Robin: Trump’s Reactionary Mind
@CoreyRobin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined by political and military distinction and another by …
Bonus: Ending the War on Drug Dealers
Dan was on a panel last week on ending the war on drug dealers at the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Atlanta. The panel was moderated by asha bandele and …
Let’s Elect Left Candidates with Joe Dinkin
Since Bernie Sanders’s success in the 2016 Democratic primary, much of the Left, from progressive Democrats to socialists, has had its sights set on something we had long at least …
We must end policing as we know it with Alex Vitale
In his new book The End of Policing Brooklyn College sociologist @avitale makes the case that technocratic reforms won’t fix American policing. In reality, we can only fix policing by …