

The Dig
Daniel Denvir
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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Mar 5, 2023 • 1h 23min
American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
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.
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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

Feb 26, 2023 • 1h 49min
Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops, deferring to their traumatized positionality. The first in a two-part interview.
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Buy: Fighting in a World on Fire by Andreas Malm versobooks.com/books/4138-fighting-in-a-world-on-fire
The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class

Feb 17, 2023 • 1h 19min
Higher Ed Industrial Unionism w/ Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson
Featuring 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.
Check out Dan's interview in The Nation: thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir/
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Buy Haunted by Slavery: haymarketbooks.org/books/1557-haunted-by-slavery
Buy David Harvey’s Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse: versobooks.com/books/4145-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse

Feb 10, 2023 • 2h 7min
Higher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis Hogan
Featuring 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.
Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.com/article/world/qa-daniel-denvir
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Buy On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century by Andrew Bacevich haymarketbooks.org/books/1949-on-shedding-an-obsolete-past

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Feb 5, 2023 • 2h 23min
The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing
Featuring Shanti Singh, Tracy Rosenthal, René Moya, and Cea Weaver on the politics and practice of organizing tenants.
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Jan 27, 2023 • 2h 26min
Freedom Dreams w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley on Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
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America as Overlord haymarketbooks.org/books/1958-america-as-overlord
The Men With the Pink Triangle haymarketbooks.org/books/1935-the-men-with-the-pink-triangle

Jan 21, 2023 • 2h 27min
Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
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Check out Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century by Danny Katch haymarketbooks.org/books/1943-socialism-seriously
Check out Black Women Writers at Work haymarketbooks.org/books/1926-black-women-writers-at-work

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Jan 14, 2023 • 1h 4min
Gramsci & Hegemony w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview.
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Dec 31, 2022 • 1h 41min
The Capitalist Conjuncture w/ Tim Barker
Featuring historian Tim Barker on monetary politics, inflation, and the general capitalist conjuncture. The second of a two-part interview.
Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a more expansive primer on inflation thedigradio.com/podcast/inflation-politics-with-tim-barker
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Get After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America haymarketbooks.org/books/1927-after-life

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Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 34min
Monetary Politics w/ Tim Barker
Featuring historian Tim Barker on the state of monetary politics amid the current fight over inflation.
Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a more expansive primer on inflation thedigradio.com/podcast/inflation-politics-with-tim-barker
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