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Enter the dig at checkout. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is my interview with Gabe Wienant, a historian and one of the most incisive essayists surround.

Over the last year, is, Gabe has written three pieces for N-plus one that together add up to

a remarkably comprehensive assessment of the present state of U.S. politics and economics and society.

And I cannot remotely do justice to summarizing the interview that follows in this introduction, but it's really good. I will link to the three essays in the show notes.

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