The Dig: Naomi Klein and Mercedes Martínez on The Battle for Puerto Rico
The US colony of Puerto Rico has been repeatedly shocked and Puerto Ricans are traumatized. That is precisely what successful shock doctrines like this one — which wants to remake the island into a ut...
13 Jun 201853min
The Dig: Spain Part II, Rajoy Falls
Last week, we posted an interview Dan recorded in Barcelona on Spanish politics — specifically, on the question of Catalan independence, and the municipalist movement governing cities like Barcelona. ...
10 Jun 201843min
The Dig: Democracy in Chains with Nancy MacLean
For libertarians, liberty means something different. It’s about liberty for property owners. And in their quest to preserve that absolute freedom for the ownership class — whether their assets be huma...
6 Jun 20181h 14min
Jacobin Radio: 1968 with Tariq Ali
On this edition of Jacobin Radio, Suzi talks to legendary street-fighting man, author and playwright Tariq Ali about 1968 — as seen from today, fifty years later. The first cover of Black Dwarf, found...
5 Jun 201838min
The Dig: Two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal
Fifty years ago, a mainstream group of high-profile Americans declared the following: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal. Reaction to last summer’s...
2 Jun 201849min
The Dig: Left Out of Spain’s National Question
Spanish politics are complicated. Dan speaks to Carlos Delclós, Kate Shea Baird, and Bécquer Seguín to help clarify the Catalan independence movement, the radical municipalist governments that now gov...
30 Mai 20181h 36min
The Dig: Resisting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The steady pace of school massacres has revived calls to put more cops in school, with atrocities committed by white students exploited to make schools more like prisons, and ensure that the former re...
27 Mai 201841min
The Dig: Telling a New Story with George Monbiot
A laundry list of modest policy solutions is not enough, it turns out. It's not just that technocratic fixes around the edges spectacularly fail to meet people's needs; in failing to articulate a big ...
23 Mai 20181h 15min
