Dig: Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and about how the destruction of social democracy made today's city where coronavirus is killing its poor and working-class people. In other news: Dan's Jacobin essay on keeping the Bernie infrastructure alive is here (https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-campaign-coronavirus-response) and the volunteer petition to do so, which you should sign, is here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqMpCESGhvAF0TONlRN--GZiG3kS1db-Y1TiteA7d0txpdmQ/viewform). Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig (patreon.com/TheDig)