Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assads rise and falland what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assads

Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxie

Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trumps triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cullar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukeles authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvad

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cullar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary armed

Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trumps decisive victory, Harriss catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here. - Support The Dig at Patreon.

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cullar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligar

Featuring Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig -

Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics thats sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a product of an old contradiction: the need to

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the third and final part of the epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our epic series on the history of revolutionary Arab politics. This episode takes us from Hamas