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We are OFF this week. In the meantime, peruse our vast archives at thedigradio.com. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig.

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The Dig is a podcast from Jacobin magazine that discusses politics, criminal justice, immigration and class conflict with smart people. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4839800

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Climate Politics with Kate Aronoff: Journalist Kate Aronoff discusses climate policy and politics and her book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig by The Dig
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Organizing DSA’s PRO Act Campaign: How ecosocialists formed a powerful coalition with unions to fight for labor law reform and why we need a powerful labor movement to win a Green New Deal. An interview with four members of DSA's Green New Deal Campaign Committee: Ashik Siddique, by The Dig
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Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz: US empire in the Philippines, Filipino migration, labor organizing in the fields, and the nativist campaign for Asian exclusion. Dan interviews Rick Baldoz on his remarkable book The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, by The Dig
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War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 1: Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush. - Subscribe to Spencer's Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman - by The Dig
139 min listen
The Media War w/ Adam Johnson and Eric Levitz: Media critic Adam Johnson and New York Magazine's Eric Levitz on the media's warmongering attack on Biden's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. - Further reading: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/media-bias-biden-polls-approval-afghanistan-wit... by The Dig
102 min listen
Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley: Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. - Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig by The Dig
135 min listen
Combat Liberalism w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Mindy Isser, & Zachary Hershman: Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion: The Liberal to Ultra-Left Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle by Brian W. Liberalism, ultraleftism or mass action, by The Dig
120 min listen
The Right to Sex with Amia Srinivasan by The Dig
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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili: Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary maritime trade, Aden dock worker radicals, why Dubai is not exceptional, by The Dig
126 min listen
Chile w/ Aldo Madariaga & Camila Vergara: Dan interviews scholars Aldo Madariaga and Camila Vergara about how Chilean politics have been playing out since the massive popular uprisings that began in October 2019. - Further reading: jacobinlat.com/2021/06/19/el-neoliberalismo-atenta-contra-... by The Dig
120 min listen
Afghanistan with Tariq Ali: Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup, Soviet invasion, and US-backed mujahideen war; the rise of the Taliban; and the 2001 US-led N... by The Dig
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Jesus and John Wayne w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez: Dan interviews historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. "Having replaced the Jesus of the Gospels with the vengeful warrior Christ, by The Dig
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“Cancel Culture” w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield: What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first emerged in the early 1990s? by The Dig
126 min listen
Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly: Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government's Red Scare attacks on Black radicals. - Read Burden-Stelly's work Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights by The Dig
84 min listen
The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow: Astra Taylor interviews archaeologist David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber. - Support us at Patreon.com/TheDig - Check out Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill reakti... by The Dig
98 min listen
War on Terror W/ Spencer Ackerman Part 3: Episode three of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Decadence, Trump, and Biden. - Subscribe to Spencer’s Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman - Support The Dig at Patreon. by The Dig
72 min listen
Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson: Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, by The Dig
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Gaza with Aya Alghazzawi & Issam Adwan: Two voices from Gaza. The first of two episodes on Palestine this week with teacher and BDS activist Aya Alghazzawi and journalist Issam Adwan, project manager for We Are Not Numbers. - DONATE NOW to the Palestinian people: by The Dig
62 min listen
Striketober: Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. - Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast about Amazon patreon.com/primerpodcast Listen to Victor's podcast WAIT, by The Dig
87 min listen
The Ruling Class with Doug Henwood: Who governs? Upon closer inspection, the composition of the ruling class has undergone huge changes that are driving this political moment. Dan interviews Doug Henwood, the author of "Take Me to Your Leader, by The Dig
79 min listen
Inflamed w/ Raj Patel and Rupa Marya: Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig by The Dig
116 min listen
How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber: How China rejected neoliberal orthodoxy and became the new workshop of the world. Dan interviews economist Isabella Weber on her book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig by The Dig
126 min listen
China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung: Part one of a two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008: why capitalism took off in England and then elsewhere but not in China; and then, by The Dig
78 min listen
War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 2: Episode two of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Obama, ISIS, and the Sustainable War. - Subscribe to Spencer’s Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman - Support The Dig at Patreon. by The Dig
20 min listen
Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 2: The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s military defense of the Angolan government against a ... by The Dig
122 min listen
Feminist International w/ Verónica Gago: Feminist political theorist and organizer Verónica Gago on Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labor and financial exploitation, neoliberalism from below, and more. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - by The Dig
95 min listen
Our History Is the Future with Nick Estes: The Dig is taking a break to play catch up this week and posting a favorite interview from our archives: Nick Estes on his book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.... by The Dig
164 min listen
The Big Scary ‘S’ Word w/ Yael Bridge: A very short ep on a great new documentary about the history and present of American socialism: The Big Scary S-Word. It’s by Yael Bridge, and it's the perfect film to show to your skeptical uncle or to someone new to (or curious about) socialist polit... by The Dig
16 min listen
From the River to the Sea w/ Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi: Dan speaks with Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi: an in-depth interview on Israeli apartheid and dispossession, the history and future of the Palestinian struggle, Israeli politics, media false equivalences, and shifting US public opinion toward Palestine... by The Dig
93 min listen
Inflation Politics with Tim Barker: Inflation is once again at the center of political debate. Dan interviews Tim Barker to put monetary policy in its historical and class war context. - Reading: Preferred Shares by Tim Barker phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wage-share - by The Dig
127 min listen

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