Lamb Is Not Enough. Three Leftist Women Run in Pennsylvania
Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory is a stunning rebuke of Republicans. But Lamb is far from an ideal candidate, and so the race also raises a perennial debate between the left …
Podcast Episodes
West Virginia and Labor after Janus with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant
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Gun Culture is Neoliberalism with Patrick Blanchfield
Neoliberal culture is one that expects little from government and everything from plucky individuals—including, apparently, the self-sacrificing courage to charge an AR-15 wielding gunman while your classmates cower behind bulletproof …
Gun Culture and Masculinity in an Age of Decline with Jennifer Carlson
How does gun culture get built from the ground up? What are the everyday politics of guns? Sociologist Jennifer Carlson does ethnographic fieldwork that provides answers to these questions, showing …
Nomiki Konst on the Fight Inside the Democratic Party
Nomiki Konst, a correspondent for The Young Turks and Sanders appointee to the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, talks about the Berniecrat struggle against a corrupt neoliberal establishment to democratize the …
Glenn Greenwald: Surveillance Hypocrisy Amid Russiagate Mania
View Transcript Did the “Woke Blacks” Instagram account really cost Clinton the election? Glenn Greenwald returns to the show to ask basic but rarely asked questions about the troll army’s …
Transcript: Glenn Greenwald: Surveillance Hypocrisy Amid Russiagate Mania
Listen to Episode Did Russia’s “troll army” steal the 2016 election? Daniel Denvir, host of Jacobin Radio’s The Dig, spoke to the Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald about Russiagate, mass surveillance, and …
It’s Iron Stache
Dan talks to Randy Bryce (@IronStache), the Berniecrat ironworker taking on Paul Ryan, about how he plans to knockout the House Speaker, Scott Walker’s decimation of unions and Foxconn’s con …
Aziz Rana: The Cold War’s Late Demise
What if the Cold War only just ended in November 2016, as Donald Trump grotesquely encircled and then captured the presidency, finding it, to his surprise, unguarded? The Cold War …
Frances Fox Piven: Movements Still Matter
Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, clear-eyed analysis of just what the title …