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@jacobin podcast. Host: @danieldenvir. Producer: @alexjrlewis. Listen. Give $$ https://t.co/gI9XOBRTRB
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Joined November 2014
Florida’s attack on Black Studies has, amongst other things, singled out an article by Robin D.G. Kelley, noting that he wrote Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Listen to Kelley discuss this wonderful book on The Dig.
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Rest in power Jane McAlevey. The world has lost one of its most skilled organizers for collective working-class power. The Dig conducted two interviews with Jane: with @danieldenvir in 2019 and with @micahuetricht in 2023. Listen.
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Our @jacobinmag event with @yanisvaroufakis and @Haddad_Fernando on the fight against right-wing populism just finished up. Tune in for the podcast on Tuesday!
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Naomi Klein on why we not only need to defeat Trump but also the system that made him possible
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"There's 400 billionaires in this country. They're the reason why there's 47 million poor people." -@KeeangaYamahtta
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New newsletter out now! Ben Mabie breaks down the tactics, demands, and targets of the Palestinian solidarity movement over the last 8 months, and gets deep in the weeds of understanding the Israeli-American relationship.
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Some podcasts raise money with paywalls. The Dig raises money by turning @DanielDenvir and @triofrancos' guest room into a communist book distribution center.
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A transcript is now available of our interview with @IsabellaMWeber on how China rejected the free-market shock therapy option during its transition to capitalism in the 1980s, and challenged neoliberal orthodoxy in the process.
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On the Nakba's 75th anniversary, @abedtakriti was a guest on @democracynow. "Thawra," our mini-series with Abed, covers the history of Arab radicalism, w focus on the critical history of the Nakba and the Palestinian national liberation struggle. Listen at
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore said it on The Dig.
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Amy Goodman on @democracynow this week mentioning Thawra, our mini-series with @abedtakriti charting the history of revolutionary currents in the Mashriq. Our 10th and most recent episode covers the Iraqi Revolution. Listen through the whole series at
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Don’t stress it: everyone is always weeks behind on The Dig.
Cannot wait to listen to this one! Although I’ve been stressed about being a few weeks behind on @thedigradio 😅.
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This is hereby declared Dan Denvir’s Twitter account in exile, until the rightful order of things is restored.
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Don’t make the mistake of presuming that the politics of recognition and diversity automatically contribute to the fight against racism and capitalism. Listen to @OlufemiOTaiwo on the The Dig.
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Next week's episode: we talk all things @DemSocialists with National Political Committee member Sean Monahan & National Director Maria Svart.
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Newsletter 40 (!) by @miyyka9 on our live interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, and @OlufemiOTaiwo at Socialism Conference 2022.
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Many people with a sudden surplus of “free time” are looking for podcasts. If you want complex and in-depth left-wing analysis—ruthless criticism of all that exists—check out The Dig. You can start on this interview with Mike Davis about coronavirus.
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"Palestine is Everywhere", the latest Dig newsletter from Ben Mabie available to read now.
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This week's newsletter is a reading list from @UssamaMakdisi. His recommendations draw out a genealogy of “Palestinianism” as we understand it today. Read below & remember that when you subscribe on Patreon you get our newsletters emailed directly to you!
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Tatiana Maslany in solidarity with Palestinian liberation 🇵🇸 ❤️ ✊️
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A transcript of our interview with Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas is now available.
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In the latest Dig newsletter, Ben Mabie explores themes of conspiracy and organization, inspired by our recent discussion with @NaomiAKlein about her book Doppelganger. You can read it now on our website!
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In the latest Dig newsletter, author Ben Mabie is in dialogue with our recent Dig episode featuring @Vinncent on the "Mass Protest Decade." .Available to read now on our website. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive our newsletters directly in your inbox.
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The latest Thawra newsletter is now live. Dig Senior Advisor Ben Mabie has undergone the task of analyzing the now 15 episodes of our miniseries Thawra to index @abedtakriti's core preoccupations and reflexes as a historian of 20th c. Arab radicalism.
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Coming soon to The Dig. Stay tuned!.
“Let’s prove the boss wrong.” @rsgexp with @micahuetricht discussing her newest book at @PeoplesForumNYC, hosted by @thedigradio and @jacobin
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After his 2-part interview on Zionism vs Anti-Zionism, we asked Shaul Magid to assemble a reading list on Israel, Zionism, and the debates surrounding its binational and diasporic alternatives. Read his recommendations in the latest Dig newsletter.
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The latest Dig newsletter by Ben Mabie responds to part two of our not-to-be-missed conversation with @orangebegum @gabrielwinant and @triofrancos
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New Dig newsletter by @ItsBenFeldman responding to our episode with @zeithistoriker on his new book "Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy".
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Ben Mabie responds to our two-part interview on Global Palestine Politics with @leninology in the Dig newsletter's latest edition. Subscribe to our Patreon (linked in bio) to receive these newsletters directly in your email inbox!.
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Check out our latest Dig newsletter! Our Senior Advisor, Ben Mabie, shares insights in response to our recent episode, Third Worldism w/ Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana. Read it now on our website, or join our Patreon to get all newsletters emailed directly to you.
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Read the recently published transcript from @jacobin of the first part of our two part interview with @hofunghung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008.
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In a recent episode of the Dig, @astradisastra interviewed @LukeMessac on the causes of the United States’ medical debt crisis, and the hospital as a site for labor organizing and mobilization. Their conversation is now available to read as a transcript.
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New episode: @lsarsour & @NicoEspiritu9 talk about legal and political fight against Trump's Muslim and refugee bans
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It’s @SenSanders on The Dig! A conversation on the fight against mass incarceration with @Krasner4DA, @KeeangaYamahtta and @premaldharia.
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We spoke with @joguldi about the history of the struggle over land in the modern world, which she chronicles in her book, The Long Land War. Dig Patreon supporters got to ask Guldi some questions—you can read her responses below in our latest newsletter.
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Wow sorry The Dig account is so boring to follow. It just like tweets out Dig episodes, RTs people saying nice things about the pod. It’s taken being silenced on my personal account to understand how boring I’ve let The Dig’s twitter be. This ordeal is making me a better poster.
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Our two-part interview with @UssamaMakdisi is now available as a transcript. Read about the rich tradition of ethnic coexistence in the late Ottoman Empire, and how Western colonialism and Zionism imposed sectarianism across the region.
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Transcript of interview with @LGeismer on her new book on the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn.
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"The authoritarian impulses of Yeltsin in the 1990s, encouraged and justified by the Clinton Administration, facilitated the creation of today’s Russia." Listen to @seansrussiablog explain the actual and not fantastical roots of Russian political-economy
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Newsletter 50 (!!!)—@macksmilkshakes on @astradisastra guest interview with @WilliamHogeland on his book Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation.
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New episode: Marie Gottschalk on how mass incarceration and the American carceral state shaped Trump's win—and more.
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Listen to Bernie, who says that you should listen to The Dig.
Last week in Philadelphia I joined @Krasner4DA, @KeeangaYamahtta, @premaldharia and @DanielDenvir to address the crisis of mass incarceration and how we can achieve real criminal justice reform. Listen here:
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New newsletter by @macksmilkshakes about the interview with @evgenymorozov on his @NewLeftReview essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason"—diagnosing our present as still very much capitalist, not a 'return to feudalism' as others have held.
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Listen! @RLisDead and @ella_mahony discuss and debate what's at stake at this week's big @DemSocialists convention
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This week on the show we have @sarahljaffe talking about unions and manufacturing in Indiana and class war
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This is how we do it.
There goes @DanielDenvir dropping a Tarkovsky-length @thedigradio pod on Chile. .
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Listen to Thawra, our series on 20th-century Arab and Palestinian radical history.
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Newsletter 62 by @ItsBenFeldman on guest host @micahuetricht's interview with legendary labor historian @NelsonLichtens1.
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New transcript available! Read our conversation with Shaul Magid on Zionism and Anti-Zionism.
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Mass incarceration is everywhere: @brettpstory and @Jordan_T_Camp on why carceral geography is American geography
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New episode! Listen to @DanielDenvir interview @KeeangaYamahtta, a brilliant analyst of politics, capitalism, race
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New Dig newsletter from @dennismhogan is now available to read! A follow-up to our recent trilogy with @HilaryGoodfrien and @infrapolitics on Central America. Check it out on our website:.
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Newsletter #44 from @macksmilkshakes on interview with @eurotrashpod hosts @AntonJaegermm and @NewLeftEViews on European political economy from the 1970s to the present.
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Coming soon to The Dig.
I’m hoping that @paologerbaudo’s The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy can help me understand what to make of this Five Star Party-style politics, which treats the internet as site of unmediated democratic power, emerging here in wake of Bernie’s defeat.
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We brought Lisa Duggan (@TheFunFury) on the pod back in 2019 to talk about her book, Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed. You can now read Duggan's sharp commentary on Rand's work and personality in this transcript of our conversation.
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New transcript available! Read our conversation with China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto.
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The Dig is fantastisch. 😎.
@koenraadBogaert @Emilydische @thedigradio Ik heb daar met open mond naar geluisterd. The Dig is fantastisch.
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Ben Mabie's latest newsletter is an introductory overview of our rolling mini-series on the history of Arab radicalism, "Thawra". Over the coming weeks, watch out for more "Thawra" newsletters with readings, images, & commentary to supplement the episodes.
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EXTREMELY GOOD PODCAST.
Got to go on @DanielDenvir's extremely good podcast and talk about the Green New Deal and also COP 24 and the Democrats and points in between.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Listen to this podcast and learn from @pfrymer about how the expanding American frontier was systematically premised on white supremacy, non-white exclusion and/or subordination, and the genocide of indigenous people.
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The latest Dig newsletter includes a transcript of Robin D.G. Kelley's talk at the World Academic Forum for Palestine with an introduction from Ben Mabie. Read on our website or subscribe to our Patreon to have newsletters sent directly to your inbox.
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The child protection system isn’t about protecting children but rather functions to police poor black families. @DorothyERoberts returns to The Dig.
Recent child abuse cases prompt remarks about how “normal” white parents/their suburban home had seemed. @DorothyERoberts explains how child protection system presumes affluent whites’ fitness while surveilling, controlling, destroying poor black families.
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New newsletter by @miyyka9 on Dig interview with @KojoKoram on the lasting effects of British imperialism.
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New newsletter by @ItsBenFeldman on interview with @jayctigerfan on the neoliberalization of white anti-racism and its failure to bridge the gap between sentiment and action.
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Newest newsletter by @msilber6 on guest host @micahuetricht's interview with @rsgexp on union organizing, power structure analysis, and John Sayles's 1987 film "Matewan".
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Our interview with @DougHenwood examining the changing composition of the ruling class is now available as a transcript.
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Latest newsletter by William Harris on interview w/ @cushbomb: “What would [Fredric Jameson] think of our moment, in which socialism had crawled back to life, dragging alongside it its most prized new cultural marvel: podcasts?”.
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Episode 1! We talk Trump won w some very smart people: @StephanieCoontz, @KhalilGMuhammad & @mattkarp Subscribe here
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In the most recent Dig newsletter, @macksmilkshakes writes on @DanielDenvir’s interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Alberto Toscano, and Brenna Bhandar on prison abolition, critical geography, and the language and practice of communism today.
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This week on the show we have @DLind talking about how the deportation machine was bipartisan & built over decades
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Outro music in this episode is “Fresh Bread” by the band Scree. Their album “Jasmine On A Night in July” (@ruinationrecs) features a collection of music that draws on the work of the legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
My extended interview w Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. The only way to achieve peace is to establish justice. The only way to end the violence is to address its political drivers. Listen: this is essential history that dominant discourse mystifies.
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King is often remembered for his soaring oratory. But the emphasis on his rhetoric over his ideas too often allows King's enemies to domesticate him or, worse, to weaponize his taken-out-of-context words to bolster the forces of racism and oppression that King struggled to defeat
New episode of @thedigradio: I spoke to @tommie_shelby and Brandon Terry about their new book To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. King. Violence, gender, Black Power, political economy and more.
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Our interview with @nickwestes covers 19th-century smallpox epidemics, massacres at the hands of the US military, the genocide of the buffalo, and the caging of indigenous people on the reservation system. It's now available to read as a transcript.
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New newsletter by Will Harris on the first part of our our four-part series on the history of modern Iran with @EskandarSadeghi and Golnar Nikpour.
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Two newsletters on our two-part series on higher education: Newsletter 58 by @ItsBenFeldman on our interview with @murchnik and @ProfTWolf, and Newsletter 59 by Will Harris on our interview with @dennismhogan .
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Want more left-wing analysis of Latin America like what you're hearing over the next few weeks on The Dig? Check out @NACLA. It's the best.
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Newsletter from @msilber6 on our AI episode featuring @mer__edith, @bigblackjacobin, and @sarahbmyers .
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Houston: A Segregated Disaster in a Segregated City. In depth with @TyinaSteptoe, @DrBobBullard and @JohnH_TXHousers
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Newsletter "Social Housing for a Socialist Future" by @msilber6 covering Dig interview with Gail Radford on her 1996 classic Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era.
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Newsletter by @macksmilkshakes on our interview with Thulani Davis on her book, The Emancipation Circuit.
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Newsletter by @miyyka9 on part two of our our four-part series on the history of modern Iran with @EskandarSadeghi and Golnar Nikpour.
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Happy accident :).
Audibly guffawed when Dan Denvir referred to “Stephen Pinkerton” on @thedigradio.
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