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One that you might like is, we're not here to entertain.

Punk rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, by Kevin Mattson. The 1980s produced some of the most

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but also visual arts, literature, poetry, and film. Historian and co-founder of DC's

positive force, Kevin Mattson, documents how widespread the punk

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building.

The noise they unleashed still reverberates today,

waiting to set off future provocation from people and places as yet unknown.

We are not here to entertain.

Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America by Kevin Madsen.

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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. Cryptocurrency may not be currency. Indeed, as we

discussed in last week's episode, it is a speculative asset, but it does have roots in an old

neoliberal dream to create private money and break the state's

fiat money monopoly. The politicization and depolitization of money has long been central to the

history of capitalism. Amid the economic crises and inflation of the 1970s, money was

re-politicized, and, as I discussed with Tim Barker this past summer, Capital

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