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Troop Veneration and US Empire with Catherine Lutz

Posted January 3, 2018

The protest movement against the onset of the Iraq War was countered by a call to “support our troops” from militarists on the right. Venerating...

Bhaskar on the Bolsheviks

Posted December 27, 2017

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...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Recovering Identity Politics from Neoliberalism

Posted December 19, 2017

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...

Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields

Posted December 13, 2017

A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in...

The Destruction of Black Wealth with Ryan Cooper

Posted December 8, 2017

Journalist @ryanlcooper talks about the new paper he wrote with @MattBruenig, founder of the @PplPolicyProj, a new left-wing think tank founded by Bruenig...