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Latest Episodes

Read This, Not White Fragility. With Jared Loggins and Wendi Muse.
July 10, 2020

Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead. - Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC -

Nativist Carceral State: Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir
July 04, 2020

Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It. -

Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream
June 25, 2020

Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism. - Read Dan's essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus -

Defund Police Organizers Forum
June 20, 2020

A Dig special. Zoom forum Dan hosted with leading defund police organizers from around the country. For more info: - blackvisionsmn.org byp100.org daretowin.org reclaimRI.org blmla.org - If you live in RI,

Antibody, Ep 3: Combat
June 16, 2020

Antibody is a narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. - In this episode: - All Cops Are Idiots (featuring Kafui Attoh, you can buy his book here: ugapress.org/book/9780820354217/rights-in-transit) -

Empire Unhinged with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana
June 11, 2020

Dan interviews returning guests Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the long history behind the crisis of American imperial legitimation that has become so manifest amid the pandemic. - Some works by Bâli and Rana cited in this interview: bostonreview.

Antibody, Ep 2: Making Contact
June 08, 2020

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. - In this episode: - The Corner (featuring Pablo Alvarado and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network) -

Uprising with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali
June 04, 2020

Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed. - Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.org - Check out Malaika's short film Left Out.

Antibody, Ep 1: Existing Conditions
May 31, 2020

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. - In this episode: - Zoom Canvass (featuring Nikil Saval) - Hardwood Flesh (produced by Ari Mejia) - Dial 3 to Admit Your Personal Failure (produced by...

Introducing Antibody, a Dig special series on COVID-19
May 29, 2020

From The Dig and Jacobin: a new narrative series about how COVID-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. The first of three episodes is coming soon.