The Dig: Conservative Intelligentsia with Sam Adler-Bell & Matt Sitman
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🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at Patreon.com |
| 0:05.8 | and by The New Press, which has loads of great titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. |
| 0:12.9 | One that you might like is Immigration Matters, Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive |
| 0:19.3 | Future, edited by Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bhagava, and Penny Lewis. |
| 0:25.0 | The Biden administration rescinded Trump's executive orders and sent immigration reform |
| 0:29.6 | legislation to Congress on day one, signaling that immigration will be a governing priority. |
| 0:36.4 | Featuring essays by many of the country's leading immigration scholars and activists, Immigration |
| 0:41.8 | Matters offers a blueprint for a just path forward. |
| 0:45.7 | This upcoming Friday, February 26th at 1 p.m. EST, four contributors to the book, including |
| 0:52.4 | U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, will join Community Change Action President Lorella |
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| 1:07.2 | Register at communitychange.org slash immigration-matters. |
| 1:15.4 | Immigration Matters, edited by Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bhagava, and Penny Lewis. |
| 1:20.8 | Coming soon from the new press. |
| 1:32.2 | Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. |
| 1:35.8 | My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:41.6 | What happened to conservative intellectuals? |
| 1:44.5 | By 2020, many found themselves with zero support among a right wing base that despises them. |
| 1:51.4 | Yet others, Paleocons, West Coast Rousians, found in our smooth brain former president |
| 1:58.4 | a champion for their long-held ideas. |
| 2:01.8 | My guests today are Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sidman, the host of Know Your Enemy, a wonderful |
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