Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.

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Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.

Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/TheDig

Join a Dig book club! Next book is Wendy Brown's In the Ruins of Neoliberalism thedigradio.com/dig-book-club/

With the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court now has three justices nominated by President Trump. At the same time, there is open discussion of court packing, setting court term limits, and even impeaching Trump-nominated justices.

In this episode, we sit down with Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, which advocates for the confirmation of President Trump’s judicial nominees.

Davis is also founder and president of the Internet Accountability Project, which seeks to hold big tech companies accountable for censorship and monopolistic practices.

This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

#amyconeybarrett #supremecourt #bigtech

DFS Podcast: The Big Tilt, Season 3, Episode 4: Hosts Kyle Dvorchak (@KyleTweetsHere) and Matt Gajewski (@Matt_Gajewski) are joined by The Podfather (@Fantasy_Mansion) to debate Mike Davis chalk week and Joe Mixon's upside.

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Mike Davis was a Senior Advisor in Health and Social Services for the Victorian Government. Where through his time there he realised the importance of measuring social impact. After his time at Victorian Government, Mike begun his own business - Purposeful, a social impact consultancy, helping many government, not for profit and business clients to measure and communicate their purpose and impact. Mike now runs his own podcast called Humans of Purpose.

Mike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda’s Wagon, and Planet of Slums. His new book is Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.

Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review.

He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.

Davis is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.

Mike Davis warns that the pandemic is only the first in a series of disasters which will include food and fresh water shortages, loss of jobs to AI, robotics and other new technologies, global climate change, and growing income and wealth inequality that will change the world as we know it.

Mike Davis also explains how if the Republicans lose control of the United States Congress, presidency, and other ruling bodies that there will likely be civil unrest as right-wing paramilitaries join together with White Americans en masse to fight a low intensity conflict modeled on the Jim Crow South’s “massive resistance” against the civil rights movement.

And Professor Davis warns that the Republican Party in the Age of Trump may represent the single greatest threat to human civilization in the world today.

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Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism.

Read Dan's essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus

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