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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

2020 with Naomi Klein and Nikhil Pal Singh Oct. 30, 2020
What else to talk about right now other than everything about right now? Election, pandemic, BLM, climate, and how the left should think about and struggle with it all. Dan interviews Naomi Klein and Nikhil Pal Singh. -
Ruins of Neoliberalism with Wendy Brown Oct. 25, 2020
Political theorist Wendy Brown on how neoliberalism attacked society and democracy and in doing so laid the foundation for right-wing authoritarianism and nihilism. - Episodes from the archives on neoliberalism:
Unforgetting with Roberto Lovato Oct. 16, 2020
Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission, fighting with the FMLN in El Salvador, making sense of MS-13,
SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law Oct. 9, 2020
Dan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left. -
Arctic Energy Frontiers with Bathsheba Demuth Oct. 2, 2020
Bathsheba Demuth on her monumental book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. From the 19th century through today, governments and capitalists on the Russian, Soviet, and American Arctic borderlands extract energy from a natura...
Demystifying Big Tech with Meredith Whittaker Sept. 25, 2020
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that's remaking capitalism, empire, and the carceral state. - FYI: Whittaker mentioned this interview with Sarah T.
Child Safety Sex Panics with Paul Renfro Sept. 19, 2020
Dan interviews historian Paul Renfro on his book Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State. - Stranger Danger is also this month's Dig Book Club book. Read and discuss it with fellow listeners,
Higher Ed in Crisis Sept. 12, 2020
Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya, Daniel Bessner, Simon Torracinta on the manifold crises engulfing higher ed as covid exposes and exacerbates decades of austerity and neoliberal iniquity. - "House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?
Philly Black Power with Matthew Countryman Sept. 3, 2020
Dan interviews historian Matthew Countryman on his book Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. - Join a Dig Book Club reading group and discuss Up South with Countryman on September 12. Sign up here thedigradio.com/dig-book-club -
Yanis Varoufakis on the Economic Situation Aug. 23, 2020
Dan's recent live event with Yanis Varoufakis on how 2020 revealed that 2008 had changed capitalism forever. - Also: we had some pod feed issues last week. If you missed Dan's interview with brilliant organizers Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall—and th...
Organize to Win with Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall Aug. 14, 2020
A must-listen conversation on organizing to win with two extraordinary organizers from Philadelphia's Youth United for Change. - Download their book Y’all Tryna Win or Nah?! https://www.youthunitedforchange.org/y_all_tryna_win_or_nah -
Border Patrol with Kelly Lytle Hernández Aug. 8, 2020
Dan interviews Kelly Lytle Hernández on MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. - Dan's 2017 interview with Lytle Hernández on City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965: thedigradio.
Goodbye Columbus with Matthew Frye Jacobson July 31, 2020
Dan's 2018 interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson on Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. With a new intro from Dan on the Columbus myth and the politics of white ethnicity. - Support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig
Cops and Counterinsurgency with Stuart Schrader July 24, 2020
Our police system is a product of Cold War US imperialism too. Dan interviews Stuart Schrader on Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. - Support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig
Young Lords with Johanna Fernández July 17, 2020
This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History. - Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
Read This, Not White Fragility. With Jared Loggins and Wendi Muse. July 10, 2020
Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead. - Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC -
Nativist Carceral State: Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir July 4, 2020
Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It. -
Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream June 26, 2020
Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism. - Read Dan's essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy- riots-coronavirus -
Defund Police Organizers Forum June 20, 2020
A Dig special. Zoom forum Dan hosted with leading defund police organizers from around the country. For more info: - blackvisionsmn.org byp100.org daretowin.org reclaimRI.org blmla.org - If you live in RI,
Antibody, Ep 3: Combat June 16, 2020
Antibody is a narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. - In this episode: - All Cops Are Idiots (featuring Kafui Attoh, you can buy his book here: ugapress.org/book/9780820354217/rights-in- transit) -