Slavery’s Hinterlands Symposium – May 2-4
Come to The Dig’s Slavery’s Hinterlands symposium Thursday through Saturday in Rhode Island: facebook.com/events/661508874305008/
Podcast Episodes
Transcript: Un laboratorio del socialismo en Chile. Entrevista con Daniel Jadue.
Listen to Episode When most outsiders think of Chile, the first thing that comes to mind are of the scars left by the civilian-military dictatorship. And with good reason: The …
Un laboratorio del socialismo en Chile. Entrevista con Daniel Jadue.
View Transcript *This episode of The Dig is a special Dig in Spanish. Visit Jacobin for a transcript in English. Este episodio de The Dig es un Dig especial en …
Empire and the War in Yemen
The US has played a major role in fomenting violence across Yemen, backing the Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led forces attacking the country while also conducting a direct war against …
Chinese Class Conflict with Jenny Chan
In the US, China is often viewed at best as a nefarious and enigmatic rival and at worst as a civilizational enemy. But these stories of national rivalry that permeate …
Two upcoming live Dig tapings in Providence!
April 23: Dan interviews Sam Stein on his book Capital City May 2-4: Slavery’s Hinterlands: Capitalism and bondage in Rhode Island and across the Atlantic world And check out the …
Against Idiocy with Kafui Attoh
Car dominance, public transit austerity, and the neoliberal political-economy within which both are embedded have fomented what Marx called idiocy, in its classical sense of privatized social isolation. Dan talks …
Strike! with Jane McAlevey
The strike is back, and big time. Teachers in particular have been walking off the job not only to demand higher wages but also to fight for an end to …
Why Socialism Wins in Chicago
Four of the five candidates endorsed by the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America either won outright or advanced to the runoff election on April 2, leading to talk of a …
End of the Myth with Greg Grandin
American liberty has since its foundation relied upon the dispossession of indigenous people and Mexicans, upon African enslavement and, ultimately, upon the constant fleeing outward that created an empire that …