The Dig

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 Patreon.com/TheDig

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.

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

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

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

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

Dan interviews Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the politics of public health and what we can learn from ACT UP. Please support The Dig with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

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

Dan interviews Marxist economist Grace Blakeley on coronavirus economics. Please support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

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