Jacobin Radio Folgen

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. We finally tackle the ultimate movie about '80s Wall Street excess, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000), which refracts Bret Easton Ellis through the prisms of Mary Harron and Christian Bale. We discuss its central performance, its many ambiguities, and why it is a quintessentially late-'90s statement on the '80s. PLUS: how capitalism is prolonging the pandemic, and why the drug companies are not your friends.

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. The guest for this episode is Thea Riofrancos. Thea Riofrancos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College and author of Resource Radicals. Read Thea's articles: "We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/green-new-deal-coronavirus-stimulus "Digging Free of Poverty" https://jacobinmag.com/2017/08/digging-free-of-poverty And more here: https://jacobinmag.com/author/thea-riofrancos *** Just this weekend, Jacobin is offering a May Day special! Digital subscriptions are just $1. Visit http://bit.ly/maydaymag to join and receive the latest issue, "The Ruling Class." ***

Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary maritime trade, Aden dock worker radicals, why Dubai is not exceptional, the impacts of steam engines and containerization—and so much more.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig