Education Reform

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No prison industrial complex does not mean that it was mainly driven by the raw greed for profits of private prisons. In fact, that is a very minor role. I think this actually worked more insidiously because it wasn't just about profit. There is the kind of effort to make a profit and verility to make real istate industry make a profit. But i think on a lot of thee other issues, like public round housing, it's more complicated. And also could be argued as like, more insidious.

Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn. Read the latest newsletter. It's on what Ruthie meant when she said abolition was another word for communism: thedigradio.com/newsletter31 Listen to Geismer's first Dig interview: thedigradio.com/podcast/race-and-class-in-the-liberal-suburbs-with-lily-geismer Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig