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The Dig Daniel Denvir, Jacobin
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The Dig is Daniel Denvir's Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4839800
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Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram
Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle.
Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/
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Dead Generations w/ Matt Christman
Featuring Matt Christman on how American history brought us to this awful present.
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How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser
Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making, borders, appropriation of nature, sexism, racism, and more. Dan's 2018 interview from the archives.
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It’s Still Capitalism w/ Evgeny Morozov
Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited capitalism entirely and entered neo-feudalism. Morozov argues that our bleak moment is in fact still a thoroughly capitalist one.
Evgeny's essay: newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason
Evgeny's website: evgenymorozov.com
The Syllabus: the-syllabus.com
Register for Socialism 2022: socialismconference.org
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Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference
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In This House w/ Jared Clemons
Political scientist Jared Clemons on feckless liberal anti-racism: how In This House We Believe racial liberalism leaves racial capitalism's inequalities in place and why, drawing on Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, the Black Freedom Movement instead needs solidarity with the multi-racial working class.
Read Jared's article: jaredkclemons.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117532940/clemons_2022_-_from_freedom_now_to_blm.pdf
Interview with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from February 2021: thedigradio.com/podcast/conservative-intelligentsia-with-sam-adler-bell-matt-sitman/
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Customer Reviews
Best political podcast today
Glad I found Jacobin and subsequently The Dig. The host is well-versed and it's clear the show puts a lot of time and energy into making an excellent and regular show that touches upon prescient subject matters with the subject-matter's experts. The guests are always able to discuss the subject matter from deep insight, though, and experience - often in ways I had never considered before. This podcast is essential listening for the American left, and is the first podcast, out of the countless I've listened to the past 15 years, that I've decided to support monetarily. Keep up the great work Daniel.
You know it’s a good podcast when you’re forced to pause it to take notes
More than once I’ve tried to listen without fully paying attention. Not that kind of podcast.
It’s amazing how much you can learn from this, and it’s not just facts thrown about, but deep analysis and context added.
Agree with the politics or not, you’ll learn quite a bit.
I learn something new every time
At this point in my life, I find myself thinking “my politics are settled and I won’t have another major paradigm shift ever again” and I know that can’t be good. Thank goodness I found The Dig! I’ve learned so much and come to understand things anew that I previously thought I either understood completely or didn’t care about (the inflation episode comes to mind!) This is essential listening for me and perhaps you too. Thanks to everyone who makes it.