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Last Chance to SeeLCTS 7: How to Talk About Immigration w/ Daniel DenvirDaniel Denvir joins this week to talk about how there's no real platform for immigration on the left. How do we talk about an issue that's important to people but maybe a little more complicated than other significant policy issues? We dig in.Check out Daniel's show The Dig here (and wherever podcasts are found): https://thedigradio.com/Follow Daniel on twitter here: https://x.com/DanielDenvirPlease subscribe for more content, and leave a like and comment if you enjoyed the episode. And if you could please leave...
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The DigThird World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane NalungaFeaturing Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. A wide-ranging interview with two important, long-standing Global South leaders.
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2025-10-282h 08Podcast Archives - The DigThird World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane NalungaFeaturing Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. A wide-ranging interview with two important, long-standing Global South leaders.
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Dan in the New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/daniel-denvir-digs-zohran-mamdani
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2025-10-282h 08Podcast Archives - The DigCrypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge CuéllarFeaturing Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvador; Daniel Ortega’s perversion of Sandinismo’s revolutionary legacy in Nicaragua; anti-mining movements in Panama; Honduras and Guatemala, where popular social movements have elected left presidents to confront entrenched power structures. We conclude by discussing mass migration from the region that’s taken on a mystified form in US politics as the MAGA far right’s principal scapegoat.
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2024-11-231h 35The DigCrypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge CuéllarFeaturing Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvador; Daniel Ortega’s perversion of Sandinismo’s revolutionary legacy in Nicaragua; anti-mining movements in Panama; Honduras and Guatemala, where popular social movements have elected left presidents to confront entrenched power structures. We conclude by discussing mass migration from the region that’s taken on a mystified form in US politics as the MAGA far right’s principal scapegoat.
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2024-11-231h 35The DigBeasts of Burden w/ Sunaura TaylorFeaturing Sunaura Taylor on her book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. What does it mean to rethink socialism and Marxism through the frameworks of disability liberation and animal liberation? How do we relate to human difference and also to non-human animals? Where does the struggle against industrial agriculture fit into the fight against capitalism? Sunaura is interviewed by her sister, Dig guest host Astra Taylor.
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2024-08-172h 27Podcast Archives - The DigBeasts of Burden w/ Sunaura TaylorFeaturing Sunaura Taylor on her book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. What does it mean to rethink socialism and Marxism through the frameworks of disability liberation and animal liberation? How do we relate to human difference and also to non-human animals? Where does the struggle against industrial agriculture fit into the fight against capitalism? Sunaura is interviewed by her sister, Dig guest host Astra Taylor.
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ThawraIntroducing ThawraIntroducing Thawra, a miniseries on 20th century Arab politics. Over the coming 16 episodes, host Daniel Denvir and historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti delve into the history of the diverse political radicalisms and revolts that have swept across Arab lands in the past century. Denvir and Takriti demystify the fundamental coloniality of the modern Middle East—including of Israel, the Zionist settler colony launched by the British.This project is brought to you from the Dig, Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere. Support Thawra and The Dig a...
2024-08-0730 minThe DigThe Dig Presents: Alien Jerky Sold HereIf you look, you’ll see. Most people don’t look.
Produced by Stephen Cassidy Jones and Liza Yeager.
Edited by Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir.
Featuring Mark Pilkington, Valerie Kuletz, and Trevor Paglen.
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2023-09-1455 minPodcast Archives - The DigThe Dig Presents: Alien Jerky Sold HereIf you look, you’ll see. Most people don’t look.
Produced by Stephen Cassidy Jones and Liza Yeager.
Edited by Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir.
Featuring Mark Pilkington, Valerie Kuletz, and Trevor Paglen.
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2023-09-1455 minThe DigCounting in ChineseWriter and critic Andrea Long Chu wanted to ask her family one simple question.
The Dig Presents is edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis.
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2023-06-2945 minPodcast Archives - The DigCounting in ChineseWriter and critic Andrea Long Chu wanted to ask her family one simple question.
The Dig Presents is edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis.
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2023-06-2945 minThe DigTransmissions from JonestownA sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.
Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis.
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2023-05-2738 minPodcast Archives - The DigTransmissions from JonestownA sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.
Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis.
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2023-05-2738 minThe DigThe Dig Presents: A Garden in CairoIt started with a few cones and a cryptic sign.
Produced by Omar Etman. Edited by Liza Yeager, Mitchell Johnson, and Daniel Denvir.
Special thanks to Alan Dean, Alex Lewis, and Nihal El Aasar.
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2023-03-3129 minPodcast Archives - The DigThe Dig Presents: A Garden in CairoIt started with a few cones and a cryptic sign.
Produced by Omar Etman. Edited by Liza Yeager, Mitchell Johnson, and Daniel Denvir.
Special thanks to Alan Dean, Alex Lewis, and Nihal El Aasar.
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2023-03-3129 minPodcast Archives - The DigHigher Ed Industrial Unionism w/ Donna Murch and Todd WolfsonFeaturing Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers’ industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education.
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2023-02-171h 19The DigHigher Ed Industrial Unionism w/ Donna Murch and Todd WolfsonFeaturing Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers’ industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education.
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2023-02-171h 19Podcast Archives - The DigHigher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis HoganFeaturing Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.
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2023-02-102h 06The DigHigher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis HoganFeaturing Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.
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2023-02-102h 06The DigGramsci & Hegemony w/ Michael DenningFeaturing Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview.
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2023-01-141h 04Podcast Archives - The DigThe Capitalist Conjuncture w/ Tim BarkerFeaturing historian Tim Barker on monetary politics, inflation, and the general capitalist conjuncture. The second of a two-part interview.
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2022-12-311h 40The DigThe Capitalist Conjuncture w/ Tim BarkerFeaturing historian Tim Barker on monetary politics, inflation, and the general capitalist conjuncture. The second of a two-part interview.
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2022-12-311h 40Podcast Archives - The DigMonetary Politics w/ Tim BarkerFeaturing historian Tim Barker on the state of monetary politics amid the current fight over inflation.
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2022-12-221h 34The DigMonetary Politics w/ Tim BarkerFeaturing historian Tim Barker on the state of monetary politics amid the current fight over inflation.
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2022-12-221h 34Podcast Archives - The DigNew Deal Ruins w/ Edward GoetzFeaturing Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s under the Clinton Administration’s Hope VI program.
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2022-12-171h 48The DigNew Deal Ruins w/ Edward GoetzFeaturing Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s under the Clinton Administration’s Hope VI program.
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2022-12-171h 48The DigModern Housing w/ Gail RadfordFeaturing Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans.
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2022-12-112h 27Podcast Archives - The DigModern Housing w/ Gail RadfordFeaturing Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans.
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2022-12-112h 27The DigFounding Finance with William HogelandAstra Taylor interviews William Hogeland on his book Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation. Hogeland recovers a fascinating crop of mostly-forgotten rebels, the movements they led, and their radical demands that put the landlords and lenders of their day on edge. He also recounts the complex and sometimes deadly machinations that went into suppressing them in order to create a nation that was safe for the owning and investing classes.
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2022-12-021h 41Podcast Archives - The DigFounding Finance with William HogelandAstra Taylor interviews William Hogeland on his book Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation. Hogeland recovers a fascinating crop of mostly-forgotten rebels, the movements they led, and their radical demands that put the landlords and lenders of their day on edge. He also recounts the complex and sometimes deadly machinations that went into suppressing them in order to create a nation that was safe for the owning and investing classes.
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2022-12-021h 41The DigThe “Woke Mob” Made Them MAGA?Featuring Daniel Denvir on the Citations Needed podcast (as guest, not host) debunking the argument that “woke mobs” (liberal or left identity politics) drove white working-class men into MAGA’s arms.
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2022-11-2337 minPodcast Archives - The DigThe “Woke Mob” Made Them MAGA?Featuring Daniel Denvir on the Citations Needed podcast (as guest, not host) debunking the argument that “woke mobs” (liberal or left identity politics) drove white working-class men into MAGA’s arms.
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2022-11-2337 minThe DigIran, 1997-2022: Reform, Reaction, and CrisisFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush’s War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end...
2022-11-182h 00Podcast Archives - The DigIran, 1997-2022: Reform, Reaction, and CrisisFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush’s War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end...
2022-11-182h 00The DigIran, 1979-1997: Islamic Republic, War, and ThermidorFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fourth episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We pick up in the wake of the Islamic Revolution as Khomeini consolidates power, represses his rivals, and confronts an invasion from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. We continue through the Iran-Iraq War, the mass execution of thousands of leftist prisoners, and Khamenei and Rafsanjani’s rise to power after Khomeini’s death.
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2022-11-151h 23Podcast Archives - The DigIran, 1979-1997: Islamic Republic, War, and ThermidorFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fourth episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We pick up in the wake of the Islamic Revolution as Khomeini consolidates power, represses his rivals, and confronts an invasion from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. We continue through the Iran-Iraq War, the mass execution of thousands of leftist prisoners, and Khamenei and Rafsanjani’s rise to power after Khomeini’s death.
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2022-11-151h 23Podcast Archives - The DigIran, 1953-1979: From the Shah to Islamic RevolutionFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah’s repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity.
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2022-11-072h 24The DigIran, 1953-1979: From the Shah to Islamic RevolutionFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah’s repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity.
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2022-11-072h 24The DigIran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 CoupFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh’s National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in ep...
2022-11-011h 50Podcast Archives - The DigIran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 CoupFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh’s National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in ep...
2022-11-011h 50The DigIran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar NikpourFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran, from 1906 through the present. This episode is the first in a four-part series, covering the period from 1906 until 1941, from the Constitutional Revolution that imposed constitutional limits on the Qajar dynasty through the 1921 coup that brought to power Reza Khan—who then in 1925 deposed the Qajars and became Reza Shah, the first shah of the Pahlavi dynasty. We end just before the 1941 occupation of Iran by longtime imperial powers, Britain and the Soviet Union, which forced Reza Shah out and replaced him with his son, Muhammad Reza Shah—whic...
2022-10-281h 31Podcast Archives - The DigIran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar NikpourFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran, from 1906 through the present. This episode is the first in a four-part series, covering the period from 1906 until 1941, from the Constitutional Revolution that imposed constitutional limits on the Qajar dynasty through the 1921 coup that brought to power Reza Khan—who then in 1925 deposed the Qajars and became Reza Shah, the first shah of the Pahlavi dynasty. We end just before the 1941 occupation of Iran by longtime imperial powers, Britain and the Soviet Union, which forced Reza Shah out and replaced him with his son, Muhammad Reza Shah—whic...
2022-10-281h 31Podcast Archives - The DigConspiracy of Equals w/ Laura MasonFeaturing Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf’s call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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2022-10-182h 17The DigConspiracy of Equals w/ Laura MasonFeaturing Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf’s call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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2022-10-182h 17The DigEurope w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik LeusderFeaturing Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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2022-10-102h 23Podcast Archives - The DigEurope w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik LeusderFeaturing Anton Jäger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone crisis, to the present moment of war in Ukraine, renewed NATO expansion, and a resurgent far right.
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2022-10-102h 23The DigOn the Line w/ Daisy PitkinFeaturing Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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2022-10-021h 50Podcast Archives - The DigOn the Line w/ Daisy PitkinFeaturing Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing drive—and so much more.
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2022-10-021h 50The DigTaming Free Speech w/ Laura WeinribFeaturing Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces the rise of the modern civil liberties movement, and modern constitutional liberalism more broadly, from World War I through the New Deal. She explains how the ACLU went from defending free speech as a means to revolutionary ends to a liberal position exalting free speech as an end unto itself—including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations.
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2022-09-252h 15Podcast Archives - The DigTaming Free Speech w/ Laura WeinribFeaturing Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces the rise of the modern civil liberties movement, and modern constitutional liberalism more broadly, from World War I through the New Deal. She explains how the ACLU went from defending free speech as a means to revolutionary ends to a liberal position exalting free speech as an end unto itself—including the anti-union speech of bosses and the political speech of corporations.
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2022-09-252h 15The DigEmancipation Circuit w/ Thulani DavisFeaturing Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civl War and Reconstruction.
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2022-09-181h 46Podcast Archives - The DigEmancipation Circuit w/ Thulani DavisFeaturing Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civl War and Reconstruction.
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2022-09-181h 46The DigRuth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi TáíwòFeaturing Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism, intergenerational organizing, internationalism, and a whole lot more. Dan’s live Dig interview from the Socialism 2022 conference in Chicago.
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2022-09-101h 35Podcast Archives - The DigRuth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi TáíwòFeaturing Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism, intergenerational organizing, internationalism, and a whole lot more. Dan’s live Dig interview from the Socialism 2022 conference in Chicago.
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Check out Breaking the Impasse by Kim Moody haymarketbooks.org/books/1873-breaking-the-impasse
2022-09-101h 35Podcast Archives - The DigThe Sahel w/ Rahmane IdrissaFeaturing Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive interview that puts the present conflict—which has drawn in French military and then Russian mercenary intervention—into deep historical and political-economic context from struggles over the slave trade, through French colonialism, to the neocolonial imposition of neoliberalism.
Idrissa’s work:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii132/articles/rahmane-idrissa-the-sahel-a-cognitive-mapping
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/kabores-defeat
nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/25/potent-policies-of-empire
2022-09-022h 14The DigThe Sahel w/ Rahmane IdrissaFeaturing Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive interview that puts the present conflict—which has drawn in French military and then Russian mercenary intervention—into deep historical and political-economic context from struggles over the slave trade, through French colonialism, to the neocolonial imposition of neoliberalism.
Idrissa’s work:
newleftreview.org/issues/ii132/articles/rahmane-idrissa-the-sahel-a-cognitive-mapping
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/kabores-defeat
nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/25/potent-policies-of-empire
2022-09-022h 14Podcast Archives - The DigA History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn SlobodianFeaturing Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm Röpke—and their vision for a new global order to protect the market from democratic forces in the metropole and across the decolonizing world. An interview from archives first conducted in November 2018.
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Check out these Haymarket titles:
Keywords for Capitalism by John Patrick Leary haymarketbooks.org/books/1886-keywords-for-capitalism
Struggle Makes Us Human by Vijay Prashad...
2022-08-272h 16The DigA History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn SlobodianFeaturing Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm Röpke—and their vision for a new global order to protect the market from democratic forces in the metropole and across the decolonizing world. An interview from archives first conducted in November 2018.
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Check out these Haymarket titles:
Keywords for Capitalism by John Patrick Leary haymarketbooks.org/books/1886-keywords-for-capitalism
Struggle Makes Us Human by Vijay Prashad...
2022-08-272h 16
Know Your EnemyThe State of the American Right (w/ Daniel Denvir)Today we're sharing a special "Dig Your Enemy" crossover event, as Daniel Denvir of Jacobin magazine's The Dig podcast puts Matt and Sam in the hot seat. We answer all of Dan's excellent questions about the state of the American right, including: the return of isolationism, the New Right, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Blake Masters, Doug Mastriano, the prospects for a multi-racial conservative majority, the "groomer" panic, masculinity and gender politics, MAGA, authoritarianism, NYC's new reactionary "downtown scene," and the bad dialectic between racial liberalism and the anti-woke reactionaries. Enjoy! This episode was originally posted by The D...
2022-06-222h 24The DigNear Futures with Kim Stanley RobinsonKim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.
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2021-10-0300 minPodcast Archives - The DigNear Futures with Kim Stanley RobinsonKim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.
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2021-10-0300 minPodcast Archives - The DigRight Riot with Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe LowndesNikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today’s American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican Party and to the neoliberal imperial Center? What does that mean for the Left?
Read Corey Robin’s smart and short piece on impeachment jacobinmag.com/2021/01/corey-robin-what-impeachment-could-mean-trump
Listen to Dan’s interview with Joe Lowndes and Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joe Lowndes on their book Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity www.thedigradio.com/podcast/right-wing-racism-with-daniel-martinez-hosang-joe-lowndes/
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2021-01-121h 51The DigRight Riot with Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe LowndesNikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today’s American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican Party and to the neoliberal imperial Center? What does that mean for the Left?
Read Corey Robin’s smart and short piece on impeachment jacobinmag.com/2021/01/corey-robin-what-impeachment-could-mean-trump
Listen to Dan’s interview with Joe Lowndes and Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joe Lowndes on their book Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity www.thedigradio.com/podcast/right-wing-racism-with-daniel-martinez-hosang-joe-lowndes/
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2021-01-121h 51Podcast Archives - The DigHigher Ed in CrisisDan 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?” by Daniel Bessner thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis
“Extinction Event: Given what is to come, schools of every kind are now at risk” by Simon Torracinta nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/
“After 2020, There’s No Going Back to the Old America” by Dan Denvir in Jacobin jacobinmag.com/2020/09/joe-biden-imperialism-trump-america
2020-09-121h 57The DigHigher Ed in CrisisDan 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?” by Daniel Bessner thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis
“Extinction Event: Given what is to come, schools of every kind are now at risk” by Simon Torracinta nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/
“After 2020, There’s No Going Back to the Old America” by Dan Denvir in Jacobin jacobinmag.com/2020/09/joe-biden-imperialism-trump-america
2020-09-121h 57
Lannan PodcastsYanis Varoufakis with Daniel Denvir 13 August 2020 –ocracy 20 October 2020 – Video��������������������– Video� VideoRecorded on YouTube on 13 August 2020.
Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s parliament and leader of the Greek political party MeRA25, which belongs to the pan-European movement DiEM25. He spoke with Daniel Denvir.
This was a Readings and Conversations event.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/varoufakis-200813-rc.mp3
In this episode, Yanis Varoufakis joined us from his home in Greece and discussed the global economy. He then engaged in conversation with Daniel Denvir, host of “The Dig” podcast from jacobin magazine. Co-presented by Haymarket Books.
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2020-08-2700 minPodcast Archives - The DigNativist Carceral State: Aziz Rana interviews Dan DenvirAziz 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.
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2020-07-041h 18The DigNativist Carceral State: Aziz Rana interviews Dan DenvirAziz 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.
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Buy Dan’s book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism
2020-07-041h 18
A People's Mic: New OrleansDaniel Denvir & Thea Riofrancos at Octavia BooksTwo of DSA's most prominent members and leading voices in the democratic socialist movement visit New Orleans for a dual book tour stop at Octavia Books. Daniel Denvir, host of The Dig, discusses his new book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It and Thea Riofrancos, member of DSA's Ecosocialist Steering Committee, discusses her co-authored book A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Nikki Thanos from the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice moderates.
2020-03-1258 minPodcast Archives - The DigRight-Wing Racism with Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joe LowndesRacism on the right wing is changing in weird and important ways, and liberal anti-racism offers no viable solution. Dan interviews Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joe Lowndes, authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity.
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2020-02-152h 03The DigRight-Wing Racism with Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joe LowndesRacism on the right wing is changing in weird and important ways, and liberal anti-racism offers no viable solution. Dan interviews Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joe Lowndes, authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity.
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2020-02-152h 03
This WreckageEp 82 - Denvir's Nuggets w/ Daniel DenvirJamie is joined by Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir), esteemed host of Jacobin's The Dig (aka socialist NPR) to talk about his book "All-American Nativism: How The Bipartisan War On Immigrants Explains Politics As We Know It." In an effort to explain how we got orange man, Denvir traces the history of anti-immigrant politics in the US, paying close attention to the bipartisan consensus that emerged in the 1970s and intensified with NAFTA, only fracturing when the GOP went fully mask off. What have been the material factors driving this? How does decriminalization of migration benefit the working class as a...
2020-01-291h 36Podcast Archives - The DigDaniel Denvir interviewed by Astra TaylorDaniel Denvir shamelessly interviewed on his own podcast by Astra Taylor about All-American Nativism.
Upcoming events:
1/24 All-American Nativism Brooklyn book launch with Aziz Rana facebook.com/events/606979320053356/
1/27 Race for Profit: A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [Live Dig interview in Providence] facebook.com/events/1416403061860397/
1/28 Rhode Island Students for Bernie Kickoff Rally with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Linda Sarsour facebook.com/events/618607768707911/
Book tour (more to be announced soon!):
1/31 Providence facebook.com/events/2432419893664520/
2/24 Philly facebook.com/events/462775997752533/
2/26 DC at solidstatebooksdc.com
2/28 Baltimore facebook.com...
2020-01-241h 54The DigDaniel Denvir interviewed by Astra TaylorDaniel Denvir shamelessly interviewed on his own podcast by Astra Taylor about All-American Nativism.
Upcoming events:
1/24 All-American Nativism Brooklyn book launch with Aziz Rana facebook.com/events/606979320053356/
1/27 Race for Profit: A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [Live Dig interview in Providence] facebook.com/events/1416403061860397/
1/28 Rhode Island Students for Bernie Kickoff Rally with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Linda Sarsour facebook.com/events/618607768707911/
Book tour (more to be announced soon!):
1/31 Providence facebook.com/events/2432419893664520/
2/24 Philly facebook.com/events/462775997752533/
2/26 DC at solidstatebooksdc.com
2/28 Baltimore facebook.com...
2020-01-241h 54The DigPlanet to Win with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana CohenConfronting the intertwined ecological, social, economic, and political crises. Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.
Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
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2020-01-102h 06Podcast Archives - The DigPlanet to Win with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana CohenConfronting the intertwined ecological, social, economic, and political crises. Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.
Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig
2020-01-102h 06The DigThe Struggle in Chile with Alondra Carrillo & Pablo AbufomDan’s lengthy interview with two brilliant Chilean social movement organizers: Alondra Carrillo and Pablo Abufom. Carrillo organizes in the country’s massive feminist movement. Abufom works in the labor-backed movement for a just pension system.
Read Dan’s interview with Daniel Jadue, the Communist mayor of Recoleta, in Jacobin.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
2019-07-202h 44Podcast Archives - The DigThe Struggle in Chile with Alondra Carrillo & Pablo AbufomDan’s lengthy interview with two brilliant Chilean social movement organizers: Alondra Carrillo and Pablo Abufom. Carrillo organizes in the country’s massive feminist movement. Abufom works in the labor-backed movement for a just pension system.
Read Dan’s interview with Daniel Jadue, the Communist mayor of Recoleta, in Jacobin.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
2019-07-202h 44The DigReal Estate Capitalism and Gentrification with Samuel SteinView Transcript
What is gentrification? It isn’t just about what was once known as the hipster and is still known as the artist, the telltale warning signs of impending demographic change. It’s part of an entire political-economic order that has made real estate global capitalism’s most prized asset for storing wealth—one that has helped bend place-based urban governments to the will of mobile, and thus more powerful, capital. Dan interviews Samuel Stein on his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
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2019-05-0200 minPodcast Archives - The DigReal Estate Capitalism and Gentrification with Samuel SteinView Transcript
What is gentrification? It isn’t just about what was once known as the hipster and is still known as the artist, the telltale warning signs of impending demographic change. It’s part of an entire political-economic order that has made real estate global capitalism’s most prized asset for storing wealth—one that has helped bend place-based urban governments to the will of mobile, and thus more powerful, capital. Dan interviews Samuel Stein on his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
Come to The Dig’s Slavery’s Hinterlands symposium Th...
2019-05-0200 minThe DigUn laboratorio del socialismo en Chile. Entrevista con Daniel Jadue.View Transcript
*This episode of The Dig is a special Dig in Spanish. Visit Jacobin for a transcript in English. Este episodio de The Dig es un Dig especial en español. Entra a Jacobin para una transcripción en inglés.*
Cuando se piensa en Chile desde el extranjero, generalmente surge la imagen de su pasado reciente marcado por la dictadura cívico–militar. Y esto con toda razón. El legado del régimen genocida de Pinochet todavía está presente en todas partes—en la memoria personal y colectiva, en las leyes y en una con...
2019-04-2600 minPodcast Archives - The DigUn laboratorio del socialismo en Chile. Entrevista con Daniel Jadue.View Transcript
*This episode of The Dig is a special Dig in Spanish. Visit Jacobin for a transcript in English. Este episodio de The Dig es un Dig especial en español. Entra a Jacobin para una transcripción en inglés.*
Cuando se piensa en Chile desde el extranjero, generalmente surge la imagen de su pasado reciente marcado por la dictadura cívico–militar. Y esto con toda razón. El legado del régimen genocida de Pinochet todavía está presente en todas partes—en la memoria personal y colectiva, en las leyes y en una con...
2019-04-2600 min
The Katie Halper Show201 - Making Bernie Better with Daniel Denvir & Karina MorenoI talk to Karina Moreno, a professor and writer focusing on immigration, and Daniel Denvir, the host of the Jacobin Podcast the Dig, about immigration and Bernie's comments on the border and how he can do better. Also, we try, once again, to get Mother Jones to correct a mistake it made about Sanders' voting record.
2019-04-1150 minThe DigRace or Class? Bad Question. With Nikhil Pal Singh.Nikhil Pal Singh on the unfortunate obsession shared by certain pundits, journalists and social scientists: definitively proving that Trump won because of racism, and racism alone. What drives so many people to dedicate so much time to arguing that either class or race or gender or whatever matters the most—or worse yet, matters exclusively? And what does “matter more” even mean? Plus, a lengthy Dan Denvir monologue on the identity politics debate on the socialist left.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out versobooks.com for loads of great left-wing titles.
Support this podcast with your m...
2018-09-0500 minPodcast Archives - The DigRace or Class? Bad Question. With Nikhil Pal Singh.Nikhil Pal Singh on the unfortunate obsession shared by certain pundits, journalists and social scientists: definitively proving that Trump won because of racism, and racism alone. What drives so many people to dedicate so much time to arguing that either class or race or gender or whatever matters the most—or worse yet, matters exclusively? And what does “matter more” even mean? Plus, a lengthy Dan Denvir monologue on the identity politics debate on the socialist left.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out versobooks.com for loads of great left-wing titles.
Support this podcast with your m...
2018-09-0500 minThe DigEco-Socialism and the Climate CrisisToday’s episode is a long one. It’s the first of two this week on climate politics: a live event that I hosted at Verso Books in New York a couple weeks ago. Or, at least part of it is. The event livestream, which we grabbed the audio from, malfunctioned for the first half hour or so of the episode. And so, dear listeners, we made lemonade out of audiovisual lemons and re-did the first part of the interview later over the phone from Providence.
Dan spoke to Audrea Lim, Thea Riofrancos, Ashley Dawson and Daniel Alda...
2018-08-2900 minPodcast Archives - The DigEco-Socialism and the Climate CrisisToday’s episode is a long one. It’s the first of two this week on climate politics: a live event that I hosted at Verso Books in New York a couple weeks ago. Or, at least part of it is. The event livestream, which we grabbed the audio from, malfunctioned for the first half hour or so of the episode. And so, dear listeners, we made lemonade out of audiovisual lemons and re-did the first part of the interview later over the phone from Providence.
Dan spoke to Audrea Lim, Thea Riofrancos, Ashley Dawson and Daniel Alda...
2018-08-2900 minThe DigAslı Bâli on Syria, Part IAslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War and the murderously instrumentalized geopolitics that fuel it. Syrians continue to suffer and to die while various actors treat the conflict as a proxy for their own geopolitical ends; meanwhile, huge numbers of Syrian refugees languish in neighboring countries, and the much smaller number who have made their way to Europe and the United States have been utilized by a resurgent far-right to blame ordinary Syrians for violence rooted in the colonial operations of those very same countries that now insist on kee...
2018-08-1500 minPodcast Archives - The DigAslı Bâli on Syria, Part IAslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War and the murderously instrumentalized geopolitics that fuel it. Syrians continue to suffer and to die while various actors treat the conflict as a proxy for their own geopolitical ends; meanwhile, huge numbers of Syrian refugees languish in neighboring countries, and the much smaller number who have made their way to Europe and the United States have been utilized by a resurgent far-right to blame ordinary Syrians for violence rooted in the colonial operations of those very same countries that now insist on kee...
2018-08-1500 minPodcast Archives - The DigMaking Sense of SorosThat right-wing people in the US and Europe have made George Soros the answer to so many troubling questions is not very surprising: he’s a billionaire, he’s Jewish and, unlike most of his cohort, he is an actual intellectual who spends much of his money on substantively progressive causes. Daniel Bessner’s essay on him in n+1, however, not only sketches out the right’s obsessions but also offers a detailed analysis of Soros as a thinker and philanthropist—coming to the conclusion that Soros’ hope for an open and pluralistic society will be forever doomed if we continue...
2018-08-1100 minThe DigMaking Sense of SorosThat right-wing people in the US and Europe have made George Soros the answer to so many troubling questions is not very surprising: he’s a billionaire, he’s Jewish and, unlike most of his cohort, he is an actual intellectual who spends much of his money on substantively progressive causes. Daniel Bessner’s essay on him in n+1, however, not only sketches out the right’s obsessions but also offers a detailed analysis of Soros as a thinker and philanthropist—coming to the conclusion that Soros’ hope for an open and pluralistic society will be forever doomed if we continue...
2018-08-1100 min
Dead Pundits SocietyEp. 43: Gun Control and the Left w/ Daniel DenvirJoining me this week is Daniel Denvir, host of The Dig Podcast and author of a new piece at In These Times on gun control called, “We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up.” We talk about the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida and what kind of movement needs to coalesce around these students in order to make it successful.
We deal with a number of controversial questions concerning the left and guns: Should the left fight for gun control? How do we achieve gun control without locking people up? What do we make of the legacy of g...
2018-03-051h 05
Cover 2 ResourcesEp. 157 – Pharmaceutical Companies Price Gouge, No Government Oversight: Daniel DenvirGreg interviews Daniel Denvir, a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project and the host of the podcast The Dig. Daniel recently wrote an article titled “These Pharmaceutical Companies are Making a Killing off the Opioid Crisis,” which discusses the price hike in Naloxone and how companies are exploiting the demand for profit.
Listen to the podcast to discover what can be done to address the problems with price gouging to make life-saving drugs like Naloxone accessible.
2018-01-0900 minPodcast Archives - The DigJed Purdy: The courts, Trump and politics in the context of ecological crisisAll eyes have turned to the judiciary. It’s the one potential institutional check on Trump—aside, of course, from the shadowy national security state— at the federal level. The courts have the power to stop and strike down laws and actions that violate the law or the Constitution. Recent rulings by a federal district judge in Washington and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made this clear after they blocked Trump’s Muslim and refugee bans. But the judiciary, despite pretenses to the contrary, is fundamentally political. It can shred civil rights and economic protections as efficiently as it can p...
2017-02-2100 minThe DigJed Purdy: The courts, Trump and politics in the context of ecological crisisAll eyes have turned to the judiciary. It’s the one potential institutional check on Trump—aside, of course, from the shadowy national security state— at the federal level. The courts have the power to stop and strike down laws and actions that violate the law or the Constitution. Recent rulings by a federal district judge in Washington and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made this clear after they blocked Trump’s Muslim and refugee bans. But the judiciary, despite pretenses to the contrary, is fundamentally political. It can shred civil rights and economic protections as efficiently as it can p...
2017-02-2100 minPodcast Archives - The DigMark Blyth: How Austerity Brought Us Donald TrumpMark Blyth wasn’t surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all.
Blyth, the author of “Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea,” explains how economic crisis has led to upheaval in a political establishment that worked obsessively to eliminate inflation and maximize profits at the expense of general wellbeing. This crisis has produced horrific peril, as the Trump administration’s first weeks have made clear. But for the Left, it also provides historic opportunities.
Blyth recently spoke with Daniel Denvir during a live tapi...
2017-02-1400 minThe DigMark Blyth: How Austerity Brought Us Donald TrumpMark Blyth wasn’t surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all.
Blyth, the author of “Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea,” explains how economic crisis has led to upheaval in a political establishment that worked obsessively to eliminate inflation and maximize profits at the expense of general wellbeing. This crisis has produced horrific peril, as the Trump administration’s first weeks have made clear. But for the Left, it also provides historic opportunities.
Blyth recently spoke with Daniel Denvir during a live tapi...
2017-02-1400 minPodcast Archives - The DigAmericans in Revolt: Sarah Jaffe on social movementsJournalist Sarah Jaffe’s new book Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt chronicles the movements for economic and racial justice that will be at the forefront of the fight against Trump. Daniel interviewed Sarah before a live audience at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.
2016-12-1300 minThe DigAmericans in Revolt: Sarah Jaffe on social movementsJournalist Sarah Jaffe’s new book Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt chronicles the movements for economic and racial justice that will be at the forefront of the fight against Trump. Daniel interviewed Sarah before a live audience at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.
2016-12-1300 min