Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. Hall’s method of Marxist conjunctural analysis applied to the generalized crisis that paved the way for neoliberalism's rise;…

Rechte Diskurse aus den USA werden immer schneller nach Europa importiert, und andersrum. Bei Weekly diskutiert Adrian Daub wie die AfD die erzkonservative Sprache der US-Republikaner zum Thema Abtreibung übernimmt, und wie gleichzeitig rechte Talking Points aus Europa zunehmend Anklang finden in der Trump-Partei. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel…

In this episode, how Sacramento's firing of Mike Brown pretty much bounces off him while reflecting poorly on owner Vivek Ranadive; how Minnesota put Julius Randle in position not only to fail, but to be scapegoated; why James McAllister was right to slur Spurs fans; why Aaron Rodgers isn't merely a bad QB; and the intersection of chess, pantaloons…

Jacobin Radio has featured many presentations from the recent conference held in honor of Boris Kagarlitsky, author of The Long Retreat, a sobering analysis of the international Left that was discussed in our previous episode, and currently a prisoner in Russia for speaking out against Putin’s war in Ukraine. We continue with Trevor Ngwane, a South…

Colette Shade, author of Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, talks about culture at the turn of the millennium. Tim Shorrock discusses the political crisis in South Korea. 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 online: http…

Foregrounding workers’ material interests used to be commonplace among socialists. But as the Left faced decades of defeat, a materialist approach to politics fell out of favor. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber defends materialism from its critics and discusses how a materialist perspective understands rationality, the chall…

Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory capitalist social formations, and what that means for making, rather than assuming the existence of, a working-class socialist politics. Next week Da…

Zum Jahresauftakt gibt es erneut schreckliche politische Nachrichten: Der strammrechte FPÖ-Obmann Herbert Kickl wird Kanzler. Wie es zu dieser Entwicklung kommen könnte und was die Rechte in Europa derzeit stark macht diskutiert Tagebuch-Redakteur Benjamin Opratko bei der ersten Weekly-Folge des Jahres. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcasts …

This week is a best of 2024, with Rashid Khalidi, Pankaj Mishra, Annelle Sheline, Aziz Rana, Anna Kornbluh, Brooke Harrington, and, in memoriam, Jane McAlevey. 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 online: https://www.leftbu…

Branko Marcetic, staff writer at Jacobin and author of Yesterday's Man, says farewell to Joe Biden (and takes some shots at Joe Scarborough too). Santiago Pérez, co-author of a recent paper, discusses his research on how little the class composition of elite college student bodies has changed. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the wor…

In the wake of Kamala Harris's defeat, the Left's association with identity politics has been a major focus of public debate. But what identity politics is or who primarily benefits from it remains contested. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the Democrats’ long-standing attachment to identity politics, why this for…

Suzi recently participated in a conference in honor of the dissident sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, who is languishing in Putin's prison for speaking out against the war in Ukraine. On this episode of Jacobin Radio, we bring you a panel from the conference discussing Boris's latest book, The Long Retreat, published while he was in prison. Three act…

Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assad’s rise and fall — and what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assad’s ouster while simultaneously taking stock of a truly bad geopolitical outcome. Want to learn more? Listen to “Thawra,” our series on the 20th-centur…

Trita Parsi and Joshua Landis analyze what’s been going on in Syria. Tina Gerhardt reviews the annual UN climate conference, COP29, where little happened. 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 online: https://www.leftbusines…

Kein Land schlägt sich so sehr auf die Seite Israels wie die Bundesrepublik. Aber warum eigentlich? Bei Weekly argumentiert die Historikerin Miriam Chorley-Schulz, dass Deutschlands staatliche Antisemitismusbekämpfung viel mehr mit deutschen Nationalinteressen zu tun hat als mit der Sicherheit jüdischer Menschen. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel,…

As with many other periods, the history of the Roman Empire has often been told from the vantage point of a minoritarian social elite. Sarah Bond, a professor of classics at the University of Iowa, set out in her research to uncover something different: a "history from below" detailing the class struggle in ancient Rome. She joins Long Reads to dis…

Women's college gymnastics coach Diana Gallagher joins the show to talk about the marvel and the madness that was infamous Olympic coach Béla Károlyi. Plus when is your favorite team signing an icon still problematic , how are college football coaches pissing away millions of dollars in salary, why might Paige Bueckers want anything but to be the 1…

Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxiety, in our fantasies, as a morbid symptom and repetition compulsion; and as expressing distinctively American logics of domination and human disposabi…

Ingar Solty und Matthias Ubl diskutieren im Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus über die politische Ökonomie von Karl Marx als eine politische Ökonomie der Freiheit. 📖 Jetzt die neue Ausgabe bestellen: https://jacobin.de/talks 💻 Lest uns kostenlos online: https://jacobin.de/ 👉 Folgt Matthias Ubl auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthiasUbl und Instagram:…

Bernie Sanders resurrected socialist politics in the United States after many decades of defeat. But what socialism will entail or how we get there remains unclear. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the difference between social democracy and socialism, how progressives won policies in the past, and where the Left s…

In liberalen Gesellschaften sind alle Religionen gleich, heißt es. Doch der Islam wird immer wieder Gegenstand besonders heftiger Kritik. Woher die wachsende Islamophobie kommt und wie man sie verstehen and bekämpfen kann diskutiert Ilyas Ibn Karim bei Weekly. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcasts und Videos – alles für Dich völlig kostenlos…

The Democratic Party has long clung to the notion of “demographic destiny,” the view that minorities will vote blue no matter who. But now it is clear that workers of all races are abandoning the Democratic Party, either by moving to the right or dropping out of politics altogether. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melis…