Hello, this is Daniel Denver, your host of The Dig. I'm here to tell you that I'm still not done with my book, All-American Nativism, how the bipartisan war on immigrants explains politics as we know it, and it really, really needs to be done with.

My partner, Dig, senior advisor, Theoria Franco's, has been remarkably

tolerant, even as I, her partner, have become strange, messy, nocturnal, and rather useless.

And so in the spirit of getting this book done and getting things back to normal, we're doing

something we've never done before, but that people have assured me is really quite all right.

We are taking a week off for the first time ever since we started the show on December 6th,

2016.

And instead, we're posting this classic from deep in our archives.

Aziz Rana on his book, The Two Faces of American Freedom, aka Episode 62.

Oh, and before I hand this off to the certainly somewhat less capable Daniel Denver

of circa October 2017, I want to alert you to some fundraising news. As you know, this podcast exists

because you, our listeners, support us with your money at patreon.com slash the dig and those of you contribute

at least $10 a month get a book from us as a thank you and I wanted to tell you that we

have a new book on offer capital city gentrification in the real estate state, by Sam Stein.

So now you can choose Stein's amazing book, which I recently interviewed him about,

or you can choose feminism for the 99% mistaken identity, or the ABCs of socialism,

when you sign up to support us at patreon.com slash the dig, that's

P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash the dig. Capital City is a really stellar book. Okay, we'll be back to our

regularly scheduled programming next week,

and I've got lots of good stuff in store.

For now, here's the very first interview I did with Aziz Rana

from October 31st, 2017.

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