The Dig

by daniel.denvir@gmail.com (Daniel Denvir, Jacobin) · · · · 1 subscribers

The Dig is Daniel Denvir's Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4839800

A leading voice of the Indian left analyzes the dismal current state of Indian politics.
19th century worker radicals and the Knights of Labor.
A deep analysis of the history of Israeli settler-colonialism and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.
Everything you need to know about Rand without reading her terrifying books.
The history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveal the class power underpinning both racism and the demolition of the New Deal order. Dan interviews Matt Lassiter, discussing suburbanite resistance to school busi...
The legendary feminist scholar on Caliban and the Witch.
Black politics from the CPUSA and Garvey to Obama and Jay-Z.
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz about Indigenous people's history to reexamine all of history, the present, and our possible futures. - Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.
Ordinary language is the sound of hegemony; it is also an archive of the struggles to overturn it. Language is an institution and a constantly emergent field of struggle; it is the product of power relations and it is also itself power relations.
The history of socialism from Marx through Bernie and beyond.
Jobs have in recent years gotten much worse for millions of service workers at Amazon, McDonalds and call centers. Dan interviews Emily Guendelsberger on her book On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane. -
How liberal suburbanites maintained segregation and transformed the Democratic Party.
Dan takes a 'break' and brings back a classic.
Feminism and labor struggle in Chile.
What's wrong with commercial surrogacy is not what you might think.
For young people, socialism is the possibility of a future.
View Transcript - Dan's lengthy interview with Nick Estes on his remarkable book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.
Putin is more symptom than cause of a Russia that the West helped create.
Why Salvini rules, and why the Italian left has failed to politicize the crisis.
What happened to Podemos? And a lot more.