Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today's government-funded vaccines put under private pharma control. -
Why we need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams, General Vice President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Sign up to join DSA's PRO Act phonebank actionnetwork.org/forms/proactphonebank - Support this podcast at Patreon.
Dan interviews Jacobin's Alex Press and organizer Jonah Furman on the state of the labor movement. - Sign up to join DSA's Pro Act phonebank actionnetwork.org/forms/proactphonebank - Read Alex Press's interview with political scientist Michael Goldfi...
We're taking a week off to play catch up and posting an early Dig episode from the archives that people keep returning to time and again: Barbara and Karen Fields on their book Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (episode 75 from Decembe...
Dan interviews Sarah Jaffe on her book Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. - Support this podcast on Patreon.com/TheDig - Join The Dig Book Club and discuss The Digital Party: Political Organisa...
Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia. - Listen to Know Your Enemy, their really great podcast on the American Right, wherever you get your podcasts.
Dan interviews Jeanne Morefield on her book Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection and how the disavowed wars have come home on the American Right. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig -
Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more powerful and less accountable?
Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways. - Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig - Join a Dig Book Club at thedigradio.
Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos on how Ecuador's Pink Tide government was constrained by an unequal world system and on the conflict over mining that erupted between leftist President Rafael Correa and the Indigenous movement that laid the groundwork fo...
Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today's American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican Party and to the neoliberal imperial Center? What does that mean for the Left? -
Dan interviews historian and essayist Gabriel Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral state, social media, religion, and more. Read these n+1 essays and Dissent interview for context:...
From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case that neoliberalism and social conservatism have been consistent collaborators in creating an...
A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today's geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global capitalism. - Join a Dig Book Club thedigradio.com/dig-book-club - Support this podcast at patreon.
What happened to social democratic politics? Dan interviews sociologist Stephanie Mudge on her book Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism. - Join a Dig Book Club thedigradio.com/dig-book-club -
Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized." But this often works out quite badly in practice. Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his brilliant essay "Being- in-the-Room Privilege: Elite C...
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Thomas Frank about his book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism. - From The Dig archives on populism: Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana Populism’s Power with Laura Grattan and Thea Riofra...
Dan interviews political scientist Megan Ming Francis about the NAACP's struggle against racist violence in the teens and 20s and how it remade the criminal justice system and the civil rights movement alike. - Join a Dig book club!
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 ...
Dan interviews Cornel West on how to think about and act upon the world that this week presented to us. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig