The Dig: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Winning Power
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year old Latina working-class champion committed to social transformation who beat one of the most powerful men in Congress: the King of Queens. Dan had an extended co...
9 Jul 20181h 35min
The Dig: AMLO Shatters Mexican Establishment
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, won an overwhelming victory in Mexico's presidential election, shattering a corrupt, old party system that brought ordinary Mexicans rampant violence and ...
7 Jul 201849min
The Dig: The Italian Left’s Collapse with David Broder
Today, we're talking about Italy, where a so-called "populist" alliance of the Five Star Movement and right-wing League just took over the government with anti-migrant and Euro-skeptic agenda. Dan's g...
3 Jul 20181h 23min
Jacobin Radio: Our Squeezed, Post-Recession Lives
Suzi talks to Joel Jordan and then Alissa Quart, who in different ways are both looking at our squeezed post-recession lives and the fight to win or win back a decent standard of living. Longtime teac...
2 Jul 201852min
The Dig: The Trump Doctrine and Its Mandarin Detractors
Stephen Wertheim, a Lecturer in American and international history at Birkbeck, University of London, breaks cuts through the suffocating foreign policy debate that shapes American Empire under Trump....
30 Jun 201849min
The Dig: Whither White Ethnics with Matthew Frye Jacobson
Everyone wants to know what's wrong with Appalachia. But beginning in the 1960s, it was "white ethics"—Italians, Irish, Polish, Jews and other non-WASPs—who broke from the New Deal coalition, embracin...
27 Jun 20181h 16min
The Dig: Child Casualties of the Border War
Vox immigration reporter Dara Lind, one very bright spot in an often disappointing landscape of mainstream immigration journalism, discusses the historical, political, and legal context of Trump’s fam...
22 Jun 201832min
The Dig: David Harvey on Capital
David Harvey has taught Capital to huge numbers of people. Dan interviews him about his latest book, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. Harvey explains why he thinks all three volumes a...
20 Jun 20181h 10min
