

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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Jan 24, 2020 • 1h 54min
Daniel Denvir interviewed by Astra Taylor
Daniel Denvir shamelessly interviewed on his own podcast by Astra Taylor about All-American Nativism.
Upcoming events:
1/24 All-American Nativism Brooklyn book launch with Aziz Rana facebook.com/events/606979320053356/
1/27 Race for Profit: A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [Live Dig interview in Providence] facebook.com/events/1416403061860397/
1/28 Rhode Island Students for Bernie Kickoff Rally with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Linda Sarsour facebook.com/events/618607768707911/
Book tour (more to be announced soon!):
1/31 Providence facebook.com/events/2432419893664520/
2/24 Philly facebook.com/events/462775997752533/
2/26 DC at solidstatebooksdc.com
2/28 Baltimore facebook.com/events/509390186368309/
3/4 Boston at tridentbookscafe.com
3/11 New Orleans: All-American Nativism and A Planet to Win double book event with Thea Riofrancos at octaviabooks.com
3/17 Austin at monkeywrenchbooks.org
3/18 Dallas at deepvellum.org

Jan 17, 2020 • 2h 4min
America’s Long War with Nikhil Pal Singh
The wars at home and abroad have always been connected. Dan interviews Nikhil Pal Singh on US attacks on Iran and the politics, history, and culture of American warmaking.
Upcoming events:
1/24 All-American Nativism Brooklyn book launch with Aziz Rana facebook.com/events/606979320053356/
1/27 Race for Profit: A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor [Live Dig interview in Providence] facebook.com/events/1416403061860397/
1/28 Rhode Island Students for Bernie Kickoff Rally with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Linda Sarsour facebook.com/events/618607768707911/
Book tour (more to be announced soon!):
1/31 Providence facebook.com/events/2432419893664520/
2/24 Philly facebook.com/events/462775997752533/
2/26 DC at solidstatebooksdc.com
2/28 Baltimore facebook.com/events/509390186368309/
3/4 Boston at tridentbookscafe.com
3/11 New Orleans: All-American Nativism and A Planet to Win double book event with Thea Riofrancos at octaviabooks.com
3/17 Austin at monkeywrenchbooks.org
3/18 Dallas at deepvellum.org

Jan 10, 2020 • 2h 6min
Planet to Win with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen
Confronting the intertwined ecological, social, economic, and political crises. Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.
Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dec 28, 2019 • 1h 51min
Down-Ballot Fights with Jessica Cisneros, Stephen Smith, and Heidi Sloan
We need Bernie but a lot more too. Dan does three interviews with down-ballot left insurgent candidates: Jessica Cisneros, a Justice Democrat running against incumbent conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar in Texas’s 28th congressional district; Stephen Smith, who is running a populist campaign for West Virginia governor; and Heidi Sloan, a DSA candidate in the Democratic primary for Texas’s 25th Republican-held 25th congressional district.
Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their huge selection of titles at ucpress.edu
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dec 20, 2019 • 1h 36min
Single-Payer Now! with Tim Faust
Why we need single-payer healthcare, why Medicare for All is suddenly at the center of debate, and why this is all part of a broader struggle for health justice. Dan interviews Tim Faust.
Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at Patreon.com/TheDig
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dec 13, 2019 • 2h 4min
Capitalism with Michael Hardt
An interview on how the transformation of capitalism has changed the possibilities for anti-capitalist struggle with Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Assembly.
Read Dan’s essay on the 20th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle jacobinmag.com/2019/11/seattle-world-trade-organization-protests-socialism
Read Hardt and Negri reflect on the 20th anniversary of Empire newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/empire-twenty-years-on
Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dec 6, 2019 • 1h 44min
From the archives: Paul Frymer on Westward Expansion
On the occasion of our third anniversary we are taking a break. Here’s a classic on settler colonialism from our archives: Paul Frymer on Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion. a.k.a. episode 85 from January 30 2018.
Thanks to University of North Carolina Press. Check out their Justice, Power, and Politics series uncpress.org/series/justice-power-politics
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Nov 28, 2019 • 1h 59min
Coup in Bolivia with Jeff Webber
Political scientist Jeff Webber discusses the coup against Evo Morales and the recent history of Bolivia.
Read “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho” by Jeff Webber and Forrest Hylton www.versobooks.com/blogs/4493-the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-macho-camacho-jeffery-r-webber-with-forrest-hylton-on-the-coup-in-bolivia
Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their titles at ucpress.edu
Support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Nov 22, 2019 • 1h 36min
World On Fire with Naomi Klein
Dan interviews Naomi Klein on her new essay collection On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal.
Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their huge selection of titles at ucpress.edu
Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Nov 15, 2019 • 1h 34min
Colonialism in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla
Maria hit Puerto Rico as austerity dismantled its social and material infrastructure. But as Yarimar Bonilla explains, these years also taught Puerto Ricans about their own collective power, fueling the summer’s mass movement that overthrew Governor Ricardo Rosselló.
Thanks to Verso Books. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.com
Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig


