The Dig: Troop Veneration and US Empire with Catherine Lutz

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🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The protest movement against the onset of the Iraq War was countered by a call to “support our troops” from militarists on the Right. But venerating American soldiers is not about supporting actual American soldiers; it's a rhetorical device to preclude questioning or criticism of the wars they are sent to fight. In a face-to-face interview at Brown University’s Watson Institute, anthropologist Catherine Lutz discusses John Kelly’s recent diatribe, Khizr Khan, Trump’s attack on protesting NFL players, and the roots of it all in the Nixon administration’s response to GI rebellion against the Vietnam War. Thanks to our supporters at Verso Books. Check out How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck versobooks.com/books/2519-how-will-capitalism-end And support us with $ at patreon.com/TheDig

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon and by Verso Books,
0:05.8	which has loads of great left-wing titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:11.6	One that you might like is, how will capitalism end? Essays on a failing system by Wolfgang Streak, which is out now in
0:19.2	paperback. The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper.
0:26.6	After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition.
0:31.5	Growth has given way to stagnation.
0:33.7	Inequality is leading to instability.
0:36.8	And confidence in the money economy has all but evaporated.
0:40.3	In how will capitalism end, the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics, Wolfgang Streak,
0:47.0	argues that the world is about to change.
0:50.0	The marriage between democracy and capitalism, ill-suited partners brought together in the shadow of World War II, is coming to an end.
0:58.0	The regulatory institutions that once restrained the financial sector's excesses have collapsed.
1:04.0	And after the final victory of capitalism at the end of the Cold War,
1:08.0	there is no political agency capable of rolling back the liberalization of the markets.
1:14.3	O'Lagarchic rule, a shrinking public sphere,
1:20.8	institutional corruption, and international anarchy, and no cure to these ills is at hand.
1:27.8	How will capitalism end?
1:29.7	Essays on a failing system by Wolfgang Streak, out now in paperback from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and
1:49.7	I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:54.2	The cult of troop veneration is an American civic religion
1:58.2	with a politically potent liturgy whose strictures are often most fervently
2:02.4	insisted upon by those who eagerly
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