THE RISING POPULARITY OF SOCIALISM

What exactly is socialism? What explains its apparent growing popularity in this country? And how likely is it to succeed? Tonight Bhaskar Sunkara joins us to ponder these questions and more. He’s author of “The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality” and the founder, editor and publisher of “Jacobin,” a quarterly magazine based here in New York City,