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January 04, 2021 Weekends: Unceasing Afghan War, Janet Yellen Speaking Fees, and M4A Strategy w/ Natalie Shure
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from January 2, 2021.
The guest today is Natalie Shure. Natalie is a TV producer and writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Pacific Standard, and Jacobin.
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2 hr 25 min
January 03, 2021 Dig: The Social Question with Gabriel Winant
Dan interviews historian and essayist Gabriel Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral state, social media, religion, and more. Read these n+1 essays and Dissent interview for context:
We Live in a Society nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-live-in-a-society
Coronavirus and Chronopolitics nplusonemag.com/issue-37/politics/coronavirus-and-chronopolitics-2
Professional-Managerial Chasm nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/professional-managerial-chasm
“What’s Actually Going on in Our Nursing Homes”: An Interview with Shantonia Jackson dissentmagazine.org/article/whats-actually-going-on-in-our-nursing-homes-an-interview-with-shantonia-jackson
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2 hr 10 min
December 31, 2020 Michael and Us: Winter Light
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. A lot of us are feeling cold, isolated, and depressed right now, so what better time to revisit Ingmar Bergman's WINTER LIGHT (1963)? We discuss crises of various kinds of faith, and the personal and political implications of the silence of God. PLUS: Why won't the pundit class (and specifically Paul Krugman) get behind a $2000 stimulus?
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47 min
December 30, 2020 The Vast Majority: 2020: Would Not Recommend
Micah and producer Sarah Hurd close out the year from hell with a look at the highs and lows of 2020.
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50 min
December 27, 2020 Dig: Family Values with Melinda Cooper
From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case that neoliberalism and social conservatism have been consistent collaborators in creating an economy that redistributed wealth ruthlessly upwards with a risk-absorbing family at its privatized center. We'll be back next week with a new episode.
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1 hr 47 min
December 23, 2020 The Vast Majority: A Socialist Fix for the Decline of American Journalism
Most of what we hear these days about what's wrong (and what's right) with the media comes from liberals. Micah and Meagan talk to leftist media scholar Victor Pickard about how socialists should think about the state of American journalism today and how we should fix it.Victor's book Democracy Without Journalism?: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/democracy-without-journalism-9780190946753?cc=us&lang=en&jacobinmag.com/subscribe
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46 min
December 23, 2020 Michael and Us: Joy to the New World Order
A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. For our annual holiday episode, we finally did the inevitable: a deep-dive into the ideology of Disney/Tim Allen joint THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994). We got a little drunk with holiday cheer on this one, folks.
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43 min
December 22, 2020 Weekends: Eviction Crisis, Techno-Feudal Dystopia, and Medicare for All w/ David Sirota
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from December 19, 2020.
The guest today is David Sirota. David is editor-at-large at Jacobin. He edits the Daily Poster newsletter and previously served as a senior adviser and speechwriter on Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign.
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2 hr 11 min
December 19, 2020 Dig: China and the US with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner
A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today's geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global capitalism.
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2 hr 2 min
December 19, 2020 A World to Win: Crony Capitalism w/ Ana Kasparian
This week, Grace talks to Ana Kasparian, host and executive producer for The Young Turks and now co-host of Jacobin’s Weekends series. We discuss the media landscape in the US and the importance of alternative media to the socialist movement, the progress towards a stimulus package in the US, and how progressives should relate to a Biden presidency.
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Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.

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42 min

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