Featuring Max Fox and Chris Nealon on the late Christopher Chitty's book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Check out our newsletters and vast archive at thedigr...
Coming Soon: The Dig Presents is a new monthly series that features original documentary reporting, personal narrative, and other sonic experiments from a wide range of contributors.
Coming Soon: The Dig Presents is a new monthly series that features original documentary reporting, personal narrative, and other sonic experiments from a wide range of contributors.
Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing their book Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed t...
Featuring Nelson Lichtenstein on his life and scholarship, from membership in the International Socialists and studies of the early United Auto Workers and CIO to his later turn to studying Walmart and international supply chains.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity ...
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops,
Featuring Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers' industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education. - Check out Dan's interview in The Nation: thenation.
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two- part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism. - Read Dan's interview in The Nation thenation.
Featuring Shanti Singh, Tracy Rosenthal, René Moya, and Cea Weaver on the politics and practice of organizing tenants. - Please donate generously to support Pioneer Tenants United zeffy.com/en-US/donation- form/0ae18bb1-5cb9-475a-af13-aedbbd890497 -
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley on Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email - Peruse our newsletters and vast archives at thedigradio.com - Check out
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview. - Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks - Support The Dig at Patreon.
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two- part interview. - Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks - Support The Dig at Patreon.
Featuring historian Tim Barker on monetary politics, inflation, and the general capitalist conjuncture. The second of a two-part interview. - Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a more expansive primer on inflation thedigradio.
Featuring historian Tim Barker on the state of monetary politics amid the current fight over inflation. - Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a more expansive primer on inflation thedigradio.
Featuring Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s ...
Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically soci...
Astra Taylor interviews William Hogeland on his book Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation. Hogeland recovers a fascinating crop of mostly-forgotten rebels, the movements they led,
Featuring Daniel Denvir on the Citations Needed podcast (as guest, not host) debunking the argument that "woke mobs" (liberal or left identity politics) drove white working-class men into MAGA's arms. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig -
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide el...