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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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My guest today is historian Danielle Carr.

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social media, and more. We trace the rise of psychiatry as a gilded age human science, the disastrous

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