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**Jacobin Radio**

News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.

Latest Episodes:

The Dig: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor Sep 26, 2021

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It's Occupy Wall Street's tenth anniversary. Dan interviews Astra Taylor.

Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our new weekly newsletter.

Listen to other pods in the retrospective series https://rosalux.nyc/occupy/

Long Reads: Kristen Ghodsee on the Lost World of Bulgarian Communism Sep 25, 2021

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Kristen Ghodsee joins Long Reads to discuss the lost world and "progressive spirit" of Bulgarian Communism. Kristen is professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books, including Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence. Long Reads is a Jacobin 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.

You can read Kristen's essay "The Youngest Partisan," about the Bulgarian militant Elena Lagadinova, here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/elena-lagadinova-bulgaria-partisan-amazon-gender-equality

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

A World to Win: The Long Decline of the Tory Party w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge Sep 24, 2021

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Grace speaks with Phil Burton-Cartledge, lecturer in sociology at the University of Derby and author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain. They discuss whose interests the Tory Party really represents, how the party works, and why, contrary to appearances, the Tories are in decline.

You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

Behind the News: The Kaepernick Effect Sep 22, 2021

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Doug speaks with Dave Zirin, author of The Kaepernick Effect, on how taking a knee spread across the country (and why leftists shouldn’t hate sports). Plus: Dwayne Monroe, cloud data architect (and author of this piece: https://monroelab.net/attack-mannequins-ai-as-propaganda), disassembles the hype around artificial intelligence.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

Michael and Us: The Carlson Doctrine w/ Alex Shephard Sep 21, 2021

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Tucker Carlson reigns as the most-watched personality on cable news. How did he get that way? How important is he really? And what does he actually believe? To answer these questions, he enlist the help of Tucker scholar and returning guest Alex Shephard, who guides us through Carlson's trajectory from a Tom Wolfe-ish magazine scribe to a Jon Stewart punching-bag to the living embodiment of the GOP's hard-right turn.

"How Tucker Carlson Lost It" by Alex Shephard - https://newrepublic.com/article/163567/tucker-carlson-profile-lost-mind

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. To hear weekly bonus episodes, subscribe to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/

Weekends: The Left 10 Years After Occupy Wall Street w/ Meagan Day & Seth Ackerman Sep 21, 2021

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Ten years after Occupy Wall Street, Jacobin's Meagan Day and Seth Ackerman join us to discuss how the left has changed. We also cover Manchin's money trail and the "Havana Syndrome."

Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from September 17, 2021.

Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub

Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

The Dig: War on Terror W/ Spencer Ackerman Part 3 Sep 20, 2021

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Episode three of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Decadence, Trump, and Biden.

Subscribe to Spencer’s Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman

Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and (starting next week) get our weekly newsletter

A World to Win: Demand a Shorter Working Week w/ Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis Sep 20, 2021

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Grace speaks to Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge, authors of Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week. They discuss the centrality of struggles over working time to the history of class struggle, why the shorter working week should be a central demand of labor movements today, and how we need to reimagine work to build a more just and sustainable world.

You can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

Jacobin Show: Are You Watching Propaganda? w/ Eileen Jones Sep 17, 2021

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Jacobin film critic Eileen Jones joins TJS to discuss the uses (and the limits) of art as political propaganda and the role of mass entertainment in modern society.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from September 14, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Jen Pan hosting.

Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT

Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

Behind the News: US-China Rivalry and the Reactionary Right in Texas Sep 16, 2021

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Doug interviews Clyde Barrow on how Texas, a diverse, urbanized, sophisticated state, is run by a bunch of reactionary white would-be cowboys. Plus: Anatol Lieven on the US–China rivalry and the meaning of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Read Anatol's article here: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/03/what-is-drowning-americans-in-new-york-not-the-chinese-navy/

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