The Dig: Policing Poor Black Families with Dorothy Roberts
Recent cases of horrific child abuse have elicited widespread media attention. What the media coverage often misses is what these incidents reveal about a two-tiered child protection system that syst…
The Dig: Struggle and the State
Today's Dig is a very good and somewhat unusual Dig: Dan’s got two interviews with two different people. First, journalist Eric Blanc on the teacher strike wave that he's been covering for Jacobin. T…
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Educators' Strikes and Left Foreign Policy
The Dig: Bernie, Krasner, Keeanga, and Premal
Dan just moderated a discussion in Philadelphia with Senator Sanders, along with Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, scholar and frequent Dig guest Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and veteran defe…
The Dig: The Right to Have Rights Part II
This is part two of Dan's interview on Hannah Arendt's notion of "the right to have rights." This episode covers a lot, including why we must fight not only to expand the democratic political communi…
The Dig: The Right to Have Rights Part I
What are rights worth when government denies people the very right to have rights? Political theorist Hannah Arendt recognized this loss of "the right to have rights" as millions of refugees found th…
The Dig: Comey Liberal Cop Fetish
James Comey is liberal America’s favorite cop and now, as a result, a bestselling author as well. Patrick Blanchfield returns to talk about his Baffler review of Comey’s new book. It’s awful, of cour…
The Dig: Radicalizing Jackson with Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Behind the News: Teachers' Strikes and Zombie Liberalism
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: David Harvey on Marx Today
The Dig: These Primary Colors Don’t Run with Dave Weigel
It's the latest installment in our series on the left and electoral politics. Dennis Kucinich is running a viable race for governor of Ohio; Cynthia Nixon, running with Working Families Party backing…
The Dig: DSA at the Ballot Box
In the latest installment in our series on the Left and electoral politics, we're talking about the Democratic Socialists of America's new electoral strategy. DSA has almost overnight become a seriou…
Behind the News: Winnie Mandela; Colombian Election
The Dig: Petro-Imperialism with Timothy Mitchell Part II
Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the second of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, published in 2011 by Verso. In part…
The Dig: Petro-Capitalism with Timothy Mitchell Part I
Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the first of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, published in 2011 by Verso. In this …
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Walmart Workers
Imagine you walk into a warehouse where the workers are on break, and you stumble into a vigorous, nuanced discussion of Marx’s notion of surplus value, how it relates to organizing on the shop floor…
The Dig: Reviving Resistance to Empire with Aziz Rana
The Dig: Student-Debt Capitalism
It’s obvious that student debt can be an excruciating financial burden. But anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom explains that it has also done a lot to make American families into plunderable financial min…
The Dig: No Human Being Is Illegal with Mae Ngai