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Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized." But this often works out quite badly in practice. Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his brilliant essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference."It's The Dig's four-year anniversary. Support us at Patreon.com/TheDig and take a moment to post something to social media about why you listen to The Dig and how it has shaped your politics.

This week Grace Blakeley is joined by Sa’eed Husaini, socialist activist and contributor to Africa is a Country and Jacobin.Sa’eed recently completed a PhD at the University of Oxford and is now living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. He discusses the recent #EndSARS protests, the economic and health impact of COVID 19 in Nigeria, and the history and future of the Nigerian left.A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Micah talks with labor historian Lane Windham about her excellent book Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah Uetricht to parse the ambiguous politics of FIRST BLOOD (1982), where Sylvester Stallone is just as frazzled by right-wing cops as he is by left-wing protestors. We also situate the film among other Vietnam War movies, and compare the Vietnam canon to Iraq War cinema. PLUS: Luke has been reading Obama's autobiography and has some thoughts.Check out Micah's podcast The Vast Majority - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vast-majority/id1462787412Check out Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, by Micah and Meagan Day - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3167-bigger-than-bernie

Suzi introduces producers Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), and Meleiza Figueroa, urban geographer, environmental and social justice activist, who pay tribute to Diego Maradona, the brilliant futbolista who also spoke truth to power. Alan and Meleiza are producers of the quadrennial People's Game -- as well as this podcast -- and today bring their insights and appreciation of Maradona, the soccer legend who died on November 25th, at just 60 years of age.

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Thomas Frank about his book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.From The Dig archives on populism:Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz RanaPopulism’s Power with Laura Grattan and Thea RiofrancosWorker Freedom with Alex GourevitchJoin a Dig Book Club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-clubSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Long Reads is a new Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.The guest today is Joel Beinin, an American historian who has written extensively on the history of left-wing movements in countries like Egypt, Israel, and Tunisia.Read Beinin's latest articles:"Arab Workers and the Struggle for Democracy" from May 2020."Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy" from September 2020.Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from November 21, 2020.The guest today is Julia Salazar. Julia is the incumbent State Senator for the 18th district in New York and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...New issue of Jacobin out now! https://jacobinmag.com/issue/failure-...

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.Before he was the President's attorney, he was America's Mayor. Made not long after 9/11 briefly turned Giuliani into one of the most beloved men in America, RUDY: THE RUDY GIULIANI STORY (2003) still can't hide the stone cold fact that its subject (played by James Woods!) is a complete piece of shit. We discuss Giuliani's long and sordid career, up to and including his recent hijinx. PLUS: learning to love the Snyder Cut, remembering Obama's 2009 message to David Brooks, and the loss of a beloved Toronto landmark.

Dan interviews political scientist Megan Ming Francis about the NAACP's struggle against racist violence in the teens and 20s and how it remade the criminal justice system and the civil rights movement alike.Join a Dig book club! Next book is Wendy Brown’s In the Ruins of Neoliberalism thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug talks about the current economic situation and speaks with Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, on ed reform, mostly from the right. Plus, and interview with Kate Sykes of People First Portland on some major left ballot victories in Maine’s largest city.

On this week’s show Grace Blakeley is joined by Andy Burnham – former Labour MP and current Mayor of Greater Manchester.Recent weeks have seen Burnham, along with other mayors in the north of England, stand up to the Tory government and demand equity in financial support during the Covid-19 crisis.In this show, he also discusses what cities like Manchester are doing to tackle climate breakdown and the housing crisis, as well as why the Left needs to embrace a socialist devolution agenda.A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from November 15, 2020.The guest is Ronan Burtenshaw. Ronan is the editor of Tribune Magazine. Read his latest here: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/jeremy...Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...New issue of Jacobin out now! https://jacobinmag.com/issue/failure-...

Suzi talks to Matt Karp, contributing editor of Jacobin, about the significance of the 2020 election in geographic and demographic terms. Biden won both the popular vote and the electoral college in an election with historic turnout, but without the kind of landslide many expected — and higher turnouts seem to have inflated totals for both parties. The Democrats may have won back the Blue Wall, taking Arizona, Georgia and Nevada from the Republicans, but Trump also secured a record vote, and the Democrats did badly in down ticket races. We get Matt's insights on the Democratic Party’s election strategy and results — as well as what they portend for the Left of the Party. Suzi then talks to Mike Davis to get his analysis of the election results, looking in particular at South Texas, as well as the exurbs. In South Texas a blue wave along the Rio Grande from El Paso to Brownsville was taken for granted, but failed to materialize, and the Republicans out-organized the Democrats. Mike helps us understand why Latinos voted for Trump, despite his horrific immigration policies — and we get Mike’s take on why the Democratic Party’s strategy — that allowed a bifurcation of Trump’s handling of the pandemic and the economy — was such a disaster.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. We travel to Lumberton to plumb the dark depths of David Lynch's BLUE VELVET (1986), in which good and evil are forces that are intertwined - and not a strict dichotomy. We discuss how critics then and now have received the film's provocations, and our own relationships to Lynch's work. PLUS: red states vs blue states, Joe Biden's cabinet, and Tim Allen's discovery of Marxism.

Long Reads is a new, bi-weekly podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.Our guest today is Owen Miller, historian of modern Korea who teaches at SOAS in London.Read Miller's article "Uncovering The Hidden History of the Korean War" from June 2020 here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/korean-war-seventieth-anniversary-north-korea-southProduced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/TheDigJoin a Dig book club! Next book is Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/

Producer Sarah Hurd steps up to mic to cohost this episode with Chicago city councilor and Democratic Socialists of America member Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, talking about Joe Biden's win, the role of economic misery in votes for Donald Trump and our desperate need for real relief measures, and how the Left should approach a Biden White House. Read Micah's column on why Democrats attacking socialists for their poor election performance is absurd: https://novaramedia.com/2020/<wbr />11/10/democrats-must-stop-<wbr />attacking-socialism-their-<wbr />days-are-numbered-without-it/ Read Micah's interview with Carlos when he was kicked off a gubernatorial ticket for supporting Palestine: https://www.<wbr />jacobinmag.com/2017/09/carlos-<wbr />rosa-chicago-bds-democratic-<wbr />party

On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful History. In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating the tax-avoiding corporate elite at Davos went viral – and in the latest A World to Win he discusses a range of topics from human nature to capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle. A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron. Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Workers in the United States are getting squeezed from every angle. One of the worst consequences: Americans work way too many hours, and spend way too many hours trying to figure out how to work more hours. Jamie McCallum, a sociologist at Middlebury College, explains. Our conversation in written form: https://inthesetimes.com/<wbr />article/workers-work-time-<wbr />jamie-mccallum-union-labor-<wbr />strikeBuy Jamie's book here: https://www.powells.com/<wbr />book/worked-over-how-round-<wbr />the-clock-work-is-killing-the-<wbr />american-dream-9781541618343

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from November 7, 2020. The guest is Jacobin's executive editor, Seth Ackerman.Subscribe to the channel and press the like button!Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclubSubscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod...New issue of Jacobin out now! https://jacobinmag.com/issue/failure-...

Suzi talks to Robert Brenner about the political-economic dimension of the 2020 election, the country, and the pandemic – and what it means for the battles ahead. The corrupt and hated President Trump was defeated, yet millions more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. He was undone by the raging pandemic that he tried to minimize. COVID 19 wreaked havoc with an already weak economy, creating widespread economic hardship. Because Trump failed to deal with the pandemic or extend economic relief, the economic crisis threatens to get much worse. Had Trump handled it with decisive measures, we'd just be dealing with the regular features of a declining capitalism, instead of far more catastrophic ones. The Biden/Harris ticket ultimately prevailed because it meant an end to Trumpian chaos and destruction -- and represented genuine hope for compassion and decency. There's much to unpack, and we get Brenner's analysis and perspectives.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Vijay Prashad and Jodi Dean (separately) on the election’s long-term meaning: where Trump(ism), came from and why it’s probably here to stay, especially if weaklings like Biden are the opposition.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.With Biden's victory all but confirmed, we discuss the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election: the narratives being spun to explain the results, Trump's response, why four years of Biden/McConnell will almost certainly be bad, and why there still may be cause of optimism. Then we discuss a movie for times like this: Charlie Chaplin's career-destroying anti-capitalist black MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947), a film that told America, "Things are bad, and have always been bad."

Dan interviews Cornel West on how to think about and act upon the world that this week presented to us.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. This week we have a US election special on A World to Win, as the world’s leading superpower melts down over a cliff-edge presidential contest.Grace Blakeley is joined by two guests – former Bernie Sanders national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp – to discuss the Biden landslide that never was, the deep polarisation in American politics and the way forward for the US Left.A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from October 31, 2020. The guest is Adolph Reed Jr., Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in studies of issues of racism and U.S. politics. Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE

Suzi talks to Harry Litman, former U.S. Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, about the grim possibility that Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s citing of Bush v Gore to support a recent Supreme Court decision could portend a replay of the Court’s notorious halting of the Florida recount to decide the 2000 election. Kavanaugh’s invoking of Justice Rehnquist’s widely derided opinion to justify the Court’s interfering in a state election -- in a case about extending the ballot deadline in Wisconsin -- signals that the high Court could once again, in 2020, swoop in and save the day for a Republican president. Harry Litman explains. Marc Cooper, journalist now writing the Coop Scoop Newsletter, gives his take on the election, looking at comparisons and possible parallels between the historic plebiscite a week ago in Chile on Pinochet’s constitution, and the US election, a referendum on Trump and his handling of the pandemic. Chileans voted by a huge majority to throw out the Pinochet Constitution and for a Constituent Assembly with gender parity to write a new one, without the participation of the politicians. It is a plebiscite with huge consequences – and Marc Cooper also thinks the US election is another consequential plebiscite, which he explains.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.In this spooky Halloween episode, we consider the politics of horror by looking at the ultimate slasher film, John Carpenter's classic HALLOWEEN (1978). We discuss the way that the horror genre has traditionally served as an outlet for society's fears and traumas, and how this suburban horror story in particular articulated a certain post-'60s, pre-Reagan reactionary current in America. Don't worry, we like this movie, we promise we won't ruin it for you. PLUS: eve-of-the-election punditry and childhood Halloween memories.Exclusive subscriber-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview

Long Reads is a new, bi-weekly podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear about topics ranging from the Korean War to the Arab uprisings, and about thinkers like Albert Camus and Erich Fromm.Our guest today for a discussion on the politics of climate change is Adrienne Buller. Adrienne is a senior research fellow at Commonwealth, the British progressive think tank, where her work focuses on the link between finance and the climate crisis.Buller's articles:“The Pandemic Won’t Stop Climate Chaos — That Will Require Changing Our Economic System” June 2020 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/pandemic-climate-crisis-economic-system“Why the Green New Deal Didn’t Get a Hearing” January 2020 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/green-new-deal-industrial-revolution-labour-party-ukProduced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

What else to talk about right now other than everything about right now? Election, pandemic, BLM, climate, and how the left should think about and struggle with it all. Dan interviews Naomi Klein and Nikhil Pal Singh.Support this podcast on Patreon.com/TheDigJoin a Dig Book Club. Next book is Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism thedigradio.com/dig-book-club

Meagan and Micah talk to labor strategist and writer Jane McAlevey about Tuesday's presidential election and what unions and the Left should do to prevent an undemocratic right-wing power grab. Read a selection from Jane's first book Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell) on how the Democrats gave the 2000 election to George W. Bush: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/2020/10/trump-coup-<wbr />florida-2000-recount Read Jane's recent essay on the election in the New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.<wbr />com/daily/2020/10/19/getting-<wbr />out-of-tight-corners/

A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. This week, Grace Blakeley speaks to Labour MP for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana.Since her election in December, Zarah has been one of the most prominent figures on the party’s Left – most recently speaking out against the Spy Cops Bill in parliament.She discusses the Tories’ attempts to impose the costs of the pandemic on those least able to bear it, the lessons the Left can learn from Corbynism, and why we need to fight for a global Green New Deal in the wake of this crisis.A reminder that you can support our work on the show by becoming a Patron.Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from October 24, 2020. The guest today is Professor Richard D. Wolff. Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School in New York. Join the Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE

Meagan and Micah talk to journalist Anand Gopal, author of the book No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes,about his article in the latest issue of our journal Catalyst, "The Arab Thermidor," on the rise and fall of the Arab Spring. You can subscribe to Catalyst here: https://catalyst-<wbr />journal.com/subscribe Read "The Arab Thermidor" here: https://catalyst-<wbr />journal.com/vol4/no2/the-arab-<wbr />thermidor Read Micah's columns on the American election at novaramedia.com.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.After he named names for Joseph McCarthy, Elia Kazan made a movie about an informer. We watched ON THE WATERFRONT (1954), one of the great American films by the most famous American rat, and discuss its personal meaning for Kazan, and the historical context behind its powerful depiction of working-class New York. PLUS: a free-flowing discussion of celebrity and politics."Revisiting On the Waterfront" by Kathy M. Newman - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/07/revisiting-on-the-waterfront/

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors of Voices from the Valley, on workers in the tech industry. Also, Paul Street, author of Hollow Resistance, on the dismal post-presidency of Barack Obama.

Political theorist Wendy Brown on how neoliberalism attacked society and democracy and in doing so laid the foundation for right-wing authoritarianism and nihilism.Episodes from the archives on neoliberalism:A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn SlobodianFamily Values with Melinda Cooper

Suzi looks at two historic trials, in different countries and different eras, beginning with Greece, where the extraordinary trial of the neo-fascist political party Golden Dawn has just ended after five and half years, resulting in convictions and prison sentences for its top leadership. Golden Dawn was at one point the third largest political party in Greece and is known for its violence and intimidation against its opponents, immigrants, and LGBTQ communities. Suzi spoke to Attorney Thanasis Kampagiannis, one of the lawyers who pursued this case, and journalist and analyst Kevin Ovenden to get their account and analysis of the trial and of Golden Dawn, a criminal organization that operated under the guise of being a democratically elected party. Since we spoke on October 15, the state prosecutor has proposed suspension of the sentencing until appeals hearings for all but one of the Nazi convicts, which could take years. Thanasis Kampagiannis has told the media that the state prosecutor is acting as a public defender for Golden Dawn. We get the continuing story. The second trial is the Chicago 8 (and then Chicago 7) Conspiracy Trial that riveted the world in 1969, lasting five months. Suzi speaks to historian Jon Wiener, whose 2006 book Conspiracy in the Streets: The extraordinary Trial of the Chicago 7 has been reissued to coincide with the release on Netflix this week of the Aaron Sorkin film called “The Trial of the Chicago 7”. The Chicago Conspiracy trial brought together Yippies, antiwar activists and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges following massive protest at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. We’ll talk about the film and the actual history of the trial, noting the significance of that moment in history for our own.

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.A former prickly TV personality tries to become a better man... a former president tries to refine his brand... on the pilot episode of the stupefyingly dull Netflix talk show MY NEXT GUEST NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION... WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (2018), the onetime innovator of late night is joined by Barack Obama for a gruelling conversation. PLUS: batten down the hatches for Ron Howard's "Hillbilly Elegy."Support the show and hear exclusive subscriber-only episodes at this link: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on October 17, 2020. The guest is Ben Burgis.Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE

Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission, fighting with the FMLN in El Salvador, making sense of MS-13, weaving back together the pieces of a transnational history severed by borders and violence. Lovato retells El Salvador and US history through his family's story.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigJoin The Dig book club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/

This week, Grace is joined by Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, to discuss the issues that drove the party's dramatic rise in this year’s general election, the impact of the pandemic on the Irish economy, and Sinn Fein’s proposals for a unification poll in the event of a no deal Brexit. Like this week's episode? Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/aworldtowinpod

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin Magazine's Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic for a roundtable discussion of Nora Ephron's YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998), starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. We discover that this parable for gentrification may be the key to all of politics and culture in the 1990s. PLUS: thoughts on the Harris-Pence VP debate and the famous fly."Want to Know What a Return to 'Normal' Will Look Like? Stare Into Mike Pence's Dead Eyes" by Branko Marcetic - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/mike-pence-vp-vice-presidential-debate-trump

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on October 10, 2020. The guest is Wosny "Big Wos" Lambre. Wos is the culture and NBA writer for The Athletic and co-host of the Woke Bros podcast.Subscribe to Jacobin here: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=AFTERBERNIE

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug interviews Kathleen Belew, author of Bring the War Home, on the history of the white power movement. Plus, Billy Fleming and AL McCullough on The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal.

Micah speaks with historian Jon Wiener, coauthor with Mike Davis of the book Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. You can buy the book here: https://www.versobooks.<wbr />com/books/3164-set-the-night-<wbr />on-fire And you can listen to Jon's excellent podcast Nation magazine podcast Start Making Sense here: https://www.<wbr />thenation.com/authors/start-<wbr />making-sense/

Dan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.Join a Dig book club at thedigradio.com/dig-book-clubSupport this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. In this episode, Doug speaks with Max Sawicky, author of this report, on the postal service's problems and what could be done about them. Plus, Kelly Grotke on college endowments and selective austerity (janitors lose, portfolio managers win).

This week, Grace talks to Rob Davies, senior figure in the South African Communist Party and former South African Minister for Trade and Industry. They discuss the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa and the rest of the Continent, the hegemony of the ANC over South African politics, and the challenges of developing an industrial strategy in a highly financialised, highly unequal, semi-perhipheral economy.