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 Thea Ria Francos,

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 who 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 at reoen.com slash the dig.

The dig. Capital City is a really stellar book. Okay, we'll be back to our

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