The Dig: Why Democrats Fought Then Folded on DACA with Jeff Stein
Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted to reopen the government on Monday. Washington Post…
00:45:35 |
Thu 25 Jan 2018
The Dig: The Militant '70s Labor Movement You Never Heard Of
Everyone agrees that the 1970s were the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear that it wasn’t for a lack of worker struggl…
01:47:19 |
Wed 24 Jan 2018
Behind the News: Sandra Cuffe, Alexander Main, and Janet Capron
Journalist Sandra Cuffe on Honduras after a stolen election and waves of official violence. Alexander Main, Senior Associate of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on…
00:51:58 |
Mon 22 Jan 2018
The Dig: Workers' Rights Are Students' Rights
Student workers at Rutgers University are fighting for $15 an hour. Undergraduate history major and dining-hall worker Danny Taylor of @RutgersUSAS talks about their struggle. Thanks to Verso Books f…
00:32:17 |
Fri 19 Jan 2018
The Dig: A New Poor People’s Campaign with Nijmie Dzurinko
Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign alongside other organizers shortly before he was assassinated 50 years ago. Today, organizers nationwide are relaunching that movement as Th…
01:13:23 |
Wed 17 Jan 2018
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Iranian Uprising
Suzi talks to UCLA sociologist and Iran expert Kevan Harris about the massive uprising that began in Iran at the end of December and quickly spread to every corner of the country. Persistent poverty …
00:56:05 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
The Dig: That Trump Book Tho with Patrick Blanchfield
Your first Diglet of the new year, and we’re talking about that Trump book. At n+1 Patrick Blanchfield makes the case that Fire and Fury is not, as some might think, a bunch of meaningless palace-int…
00:47:19 |
Sat 13 Jan 2018
The Dig: Killing the Black Body with Dorothy Roberts
Chattel slavery made black women’s reproduction the source of private property — and in doing so, invented race and American racism. Ever since, the denigration and regulation of black women’s childb…
01:41:11 |
Wed 10 Jan 2018
Behind the News: What Social Reproduction Theory Offers Us
Professor Tithi Bhattacharya, editor of Social Reproduction Theory on capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and society. Social reproduction theory is a type of socialist feminist analysis of the connection…
00:51:56 |
Mon 08 Jan 2018
The Dig: Troop Veneration and US Empire with Catherine Lutz
The protest movement against the onset of the Iraq War was countered by a call to “support our troops” from militarists on the Right. But venerating American soldiers is not about supporting actual A…
01:31:03 |
Thu 04 Jan 2018
The Dig: Bhaskar Sunkara on the Bolsheviks
At the close of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara discusses his new article on the Bolsheviks and what we can learn from and blame on them — and also what might …
01:11:17 |
Wed 27 Dec 2017
Behind the News: Yanis Varoufakis on the Need for a Progressive Internationalism
Doug Henwood explains the bitcoin craze, and then ex-finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis ties up some loose ends on Adults in the Room, and discusses the need for a progressive internationali…
00:51:57 |
Fri 22 Dec 2017
The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Recovering Identity Politics from Neoliberalism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor returns to The Dig to discuss her new book How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Forty years ago, a group of black feminists coined the term “iden…
01:29:11 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Media and Democracy
Journalists Robert Scheer, and Marc Cooper join Suzi Weissman in a wide-ranging discussion on "Media and Democracy: From the Vietnam War to the Consolidation of Alternative Facts in the Digital Era,"…
01:10:42 |
Mon 18 Dec 2017
The Dig: Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Dan talks to the sister scholars a…
02:07:12 |
Wed 13 Dec 2017
The Dig: The Destruction of Black Wealth with Ryan Cooper
Journalist Ryan Cooper talks about the new paper he wrote with Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, a new left-wing think tank. "Foreclosed: Destruction of Black Wealth During the Ob…
00:55:45 |
Sat 09 Dec 2017
The Dig: Peace Can Happen in Korea with Tim Shorrock
The prospect of nuclear war with North Korea sits near the top of the list of things that have been unthinkably bad about Donald Trump’s presidency. But the conflict with North Korea didn’t begin wit…
01:22:22 |
Wed 06 Dec 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Neoliberalism on Steroids
Author and economist Dr. Jack Rasmus dissects the Trump/Ryan/McConnell Tax (Cut) Plan, that he says will only increase financial instability and economic fragility. It is neoliberalism on steroids. T…
00:39:22 |
Mon 04 Dec 2017
Behind the News: Corey Robin on the Right from Burke to Trump
Corey Robin, whose The Reactionary Mind has just been issued in an updated edition, on the Right from Burke to Trump. While most people on the Left fear and demonize the Right, they aren't interested…
00:51:59 |
Mon 04 Dec 2017
The Dig: Clintonism's Dreadful Legacy with Robert Reich
Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary, explains one of Clintonism’s most dreadful results: President Trump. The new film Saving Capitalism, available on Netflix, is Reich’s quasi-autobiographi…
00:38:39 |
Fri 01 Dec 2017
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