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One title that I think listeners might find interesting is

Tear in the Mind of God the Global Rise of religious violence by Mark Jorgensmeyer.

Militant Islamists get a lot of attention in the US, but a lot of people around the world

commit violence in the name of God. Tear in the mind of God, now in its fourth edition, analyzes terrorism related to European

Christians who oppose Muslim immigrants, American Christians who support abortion clinic

bombings, Muslims in the Middle East associated with the rise of ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Hamas, Israeli Jews who support the persecution of Palestinians and more.

Tear in the mind of God, the global rise of religious violence, out now from University of California

Press. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm recording from Providence, Rhode Island.

What's the matter with Appalachia?

Many liberal elites think they know the answer.

Since Trump's campaign first took off, the economically devastated mountain range has become a symbol of all that is wrong with Red State America.

A place replete with guns, bigotry, and pickup trucks that proudly fly the Confederate flag.

There is indeed a lot wrong with Appalachia, but what's most wrong is this, a region where

people for decades waged amongst the most militant labor struggles in American history

has been devastated by coal company greed, automation, shifts in global commodity markets, and of course by Republican reaction and

neoliberal maligned neglect. It goes without saying that opposing bigotry

must be central for leftist but the left must also fight the liberal

elite proclivity to write Appalachia off. Building a multiracial working-class

movement is integral to fighting racism. By contrast, neoliberalism foments racism

by paving the way for a right-wing politics that tells white people that people of color

...