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The Dig is a weekly podcast from Jacobid magazine. This week, Daniel Denver talks with anthropologist Nadia Abu Al-Haj about war and citizenship in post 9-11 America. In part one of our interview, we discuss how anti-war veterans and psychiatrists during the Vietnam War era developed an understanding that US troops were traumatized by perpetrating atrocities against Vietnamese people. Andre Singer assesses the prospects for the third Lula administration in Brazil. Cecilia Recap asks whether digital monopolies have altered the contours of capitalism itself. Matthew Carp reflects on class D alignment in American politics.

Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Subscribe to New Left Review newleftreview.org/subscriptions/new Buy My Country is the World: Staughton Lynd’s Writings, Speeches, and Statements Against the Vietnam War haymarketbooks.org/books/1956-my-country-is-the-world