The Dig

Featuring Derek Guy on the politics, history, economics, and style of Western menswear. Guest hosted by Dennis M. Hogan. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] In These Times is offering 78% off print subscriptions for Dig listeners at Inthesetimes.com/dig [http://Inthesetimes.com/dig] Buy I Didn’t Come Here to Lie at Haymarketbooks.com [http://Haymarketbooks.com]

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist siblings around the world aren’t just a backlash to neoliberalism. The far-right has also long been animated by extremist mutant neoliberal anarcho-capitalist and paleo-libertarian strains that in the 1980s and 90s built a new New Fusionist politics of capitalist extremism—a politics that promoted IQ as the measure of individual and racial value; hard borders for humans with free trade for capital; and gold as the only true currency. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Register for the Socialism Conference at Socialismconference.org [http://Socialismconference.org] Register for “Our Collective Is the Prize” at Comrades.education [http://Comrades.education] before May 31

Featuring Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing French party La France Insoumise. How the radical left confronts and then defeats the far-right, in France and everywhere. Recorded before an audience at n+1’s Brooklyn office. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Register for “Our Collective Is the Prize” at comrades.education [http://comrades.education] Buy Reconsidering Reparations at haymarketbooks.com [http://haymarketbooks.com]

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the final in a four-part series, traces the great unraveling of the American empire from the 1970s to our present MAGA 2.0 moment. Would you like to know more? Aziz made a bibliography for you: thedigradio.com/newsletter102 [http://thedigradio.com/newsletter102] Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Buy Enemy Feminisms and I Didn’t Come Here to Lie at Haymarketbooks.com [http://Haymarketbooks.com]

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the third in what is now a four-part series, looks at how black movements responded as the Vietnam War and the limits of formal civil rights victories combined to explode the Cold War’s contradictions. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig [http://Patreon.com/TheDig] Buy Reconsidering Reparations at Haymarketbooks.com [http://Haymarketbooks.com] Subscribe to a year of Jacobin for only $15— a special offer for Dig listeners! bit.ly/digjacobin [http://bit.ly/digjacobin]