This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is The Good Die Young, the verdict on Henry

Kissinger, co-published with Jacobin magazine and edited by Renee Rojas, Baskar-Sunkara, and Jonah Walters.

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is

the specter haunting its dusty hallways.

For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure

in war rooms and press briefings,

shepherding the American Empire

through successive attempts at expansion.

For generations of anti-war activists, Kissinger personified the depravity of the U.S.

War Machine.

The Good Die Young compiles essays from scholars and journalists including Gerald Horn,

Carolyn Eisenberg, and Chip Gibbons with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin.

This collection of essays was compiled years ago.

Verso was ready and waiting for Kacinger's death

to publish the searing anti-obituary. The Good Die Young, out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the second of my two-part interview with Osama MacDissi on the history of

religious coexistence in the Maastrichick, the Arab region stretching from the

Eastern Mediterranean to Iraq. I strongly recommend that you listen to part one

first if you haven't done so already. Among the most maddeningly ignorant pieces of conventional wisdom about the Middle East

is that it's a place of timeless tribal inter-communal conflict pitting Muslim against

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