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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.

This episode is my interview with political theorist Wendy Brown. Our goal is to figure out why so much of American culture is pervaded by this intense nihilism, this thrill to the raw and transgressive exercise of power

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