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The Dig

Daniel Denvirwww.thedigradio.com
The Dig is a podcast from Jacobin magazine that discusses politics, criminal justice, immigration and class conflict with smart people. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4839800
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Episodes

Yanis Varoufakis on the Economic Situation

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 this is a must-listen for everyone interested in organizing—check it out: www.thedigradio.com/podcast/organize-to-win-with-andres-celin-and-rapheal-randall/...

Aug 23, 20201 hr 14 min

Organize to Win with Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall

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 Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Aug 14, 20201 hr 57 min

Border Patrol with Kelly Lytle Hernández

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.com/podcast/a-history-of-human-caging-with-kelly-lytle-hernandez Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig...

Aug 08, 20201 hr 34 min

Goodbye Columbus with Matthew Frye Jacobson

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

Jul 31, 20201 hr 23 min

Cops and Counterinsurgency with Stuart Schrader

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

Jul 24, 20202 hr 10 min

Young Lords with Johanna Fernández

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

Jul 17, 20202 hr 30 min

Read This, Not White Fragility. With Jared Loggins and Wendi Muse.

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 Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson Dig interview with Michael Dawson Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil by Patricia de Santana Pinho Racecraft: The Soul ...

Jul 10, 20201 hr 49 min

Nativist Carceral State: Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir

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 . Please support this podcast wit $ at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Dan’s book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism

Jul 04, 20201 hr 19 min

Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream

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 Not in the mood for a long, complex Dig interview? Check out Antibody , which is like commie This American Life: thedigradio.com/antibody Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig...

Jun 26, 20202 hr 12 min

Defund Police Organizers Forum

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, support the fight for a people’s budget: actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-no-to-a-brutal-austerity-budget-in-rhode-island Dan’s essay on Trump’s origins in ordinary bipartisan security politics: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus...

Jun 20, 20201 hr 26 min

Antibody, Ep 3: Combat

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 ) A Few Basic Demands (produced by Chenjerai Kumanyika ( twitter.com/catchatweetdown ) After the Peak (by Karim Sariahmed ( twitter.com/sariahmed ), along with Alex Azan, Belicia Ding, Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko , Vanessa K. Ferrel, Michelle Gonzalez, Musaub Khan, and M...

Jun 16, 20201 hr 16 min

Empire Unhinged with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana

Dan interviews returning guests Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the long history behind the crisis of American imperial legitimation that has become so manifest amid the pandemic. Some works by Bâli and Rana cited in this interview: bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/asl%C4%B1-u-b%C3%A2li-aziz-rana-sanctions-are-inhumane%E2%80%94now-and-always lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/constitutionalism-and-american-imperial-imagination Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig...

Jun 11, 20202 hr 7 min

Antibody, Ep 2: Making Contact

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. In this episode: The Corner (featuring Pablo Alvarado and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network ) Stranger Pleasure (featuring Samuel Delany ; produced by David Gutherz) One House in Oakland (produced by Sophie Kasakove ) Role Call (produced by Andrea Long Chu ) Support day laborer economic survival with a contribution at ndlon.org...

Jun 08, 20201 hr 7 min

Uprising with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali

Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed. Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.org Check out Malaika’s short film Left Out .

Jun 04, 20201 hr 29 min

Antibody, Ep 1: Existing Conditions

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. In this episode: Zoom Canvass (featuring Nikil Saval ) Hardwood Flesh (produced by Ari Mejia ) Dial 3 to Admit Your Personal Failure (produced by Ian Lewis and Caroline Kanner) You Can’t Go Home Again (written by Alex Press ) The International Trans Person Helpline (produced by Cass Adair and Arlie Adlington )...

May 31, 202055 min

Ebola in West Africa with Adia Benton

Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today. Please support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/thdig

May 23, 20201 hr 19 min

Science for the People with Nafis Hasan and Frank Rosenthal

Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science. Subscribe to Science for the People at magazine.ScienceForThePeople.org Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

May 17, 20202 hr 5 min

From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser

Dan is playing catch up. Here’s a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism’s totality, including socially reproductive work that makes possible the world that capitalism exploits. This is painfully relevant today as people everywhere do the work of staying at home and social distancing to beat this pandemic while capitalists reap the rewards of the world’s reproduction. Please support this podcast at Patre...

May 09, 20201 hr 22 min

Don’t Blame Robots with Aaron Benanav

Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn’t that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse. Read “Automation and the Future of Work” in New Left Review . Parts one and two . Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig ....

May 01, 20202 hr 9 min

Bigger Than Bernie with Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht

Dan interviews Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, the authors of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, to assess the campaign and the way forward. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Apr 23, 20201 hr 11 min

Blowback with Brendan James and Noah Kulwin

Dan interviews the makers of Blowback, a new podcast series telling the history of the Iraq War. Blowback is available only on Stitcher Premium—and for a month you can listen for free. Go to stitcherpremium.com and sign up with the code BLOWBACK. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Apr 17, 20201 hr 17 min

Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and about how the destruction of social democracy made today’s city where coronavirus is killing its poor and working-class people. In other news: Dan’s Jacobin essay on keeping the Bernie infrastructure alive is here and the volunteer petition to do so, which you should sign, is here . Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig...

Apr 14, 20202 hr 1 min

Organizing Now with Sarah Jaffe & Jasson Perez

Dan interviews veteran organizer Jasson Perez and journalist Sarah Jaffe on left organizing amid covid and where it might go. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Apr 08, 20201 hr 51 min

Who Got Bailed Out with Eric Levitz

Dan interviews New York magazine writer Eric Levitz on the big corporate bailout that gave workers precious little to survive the corona crisis. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Mar 30, 20201 hr 6 min

Mike Davis on Coronavirus Politics

Dan interviews Mike Davis about everything we are all suddenly trying to figure out. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Mar 20, 20201 hr 58 min

NYC DSA on the Ballot

Dan interviews NYC DSA down-ballot candidates. Samelys López is running for a US House seat in the Bronx. Jabari Brisport, Marcela Mitaynes, and Phara Souffrant Forrest are running for seats in the state legislature. All four are campaigning on a platform of housing justice. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Mar 18, 20201 hr 56 min

We’ve Got People with Ryan Grim

An interview on how the Democratic Party got here today with Ryan Grim. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Mar 14, 20201 hr 59 min
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