Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don't have to read Rand's work yourself. Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed is out now from University of California Press.Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comPlease support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig
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Folge vom 27.09.2019The Dig: Ayn Rand's Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan
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Folge vom 23.09.2019Behind the News: UAW Strike; Slavery in the Early United StatesSam Gindin on the UAW’s strike against GM, and the possibilities for the green repurposing of a plant GM is abandoning. Then, Robin Einhorn on the role of slavery in shaping tax politics in the early United States (article here).
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Folge vom 20.09.2019The Dig: The Class Politics of Suburban Racism with Matt LassiterThe history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveal the class power underpinning both racism and the demolition of the New Deal order. Dan interviews Matt Lassiter, discussing suburbanite resistance to school busing, why Nixon's Silent Majority was the the product of a suburban strategy rather than a Southern one, and why the class base of all politics matters.Thanks to Verso. Check out their huge selection of left-wing titles at www.versobooks.comSupport this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig
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Folge vom 19.09.2019The Vast Majority: "West Virginia Isn't Just Trump Country" with Cathy KunkelAs we trudge closer to 2020, candidates are emerging for elected office beyond the presidency. And, thank God, they don't all suck. Like Cathy Kunkel, who is running for Congress in West Virginia's second district. Cathy is an energy analyst, cochair of the Working Families Party in West Virginia, an activist during the 2018 West Virginia teachers strike, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She's also a contributor to Jacobin, where she's written half a dozen articles about West Virginia and Puerto Rico. You can read her Jacobin articles here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/author/cathy-kunkel You can learn more about her campaign at her website: https://<wbr />kunkelforcongress.com