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Latest Episodes

Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
January 27, 2025

Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transform Los Angeles, the country, and the world. - Suppor

Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
January 19, 2025

Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the U

Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
January 11, 2025

Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Halls Marxisma Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory

Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria w/ Bassam Haddad
December 22, 2024

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

Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield
December 18, 2024

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

MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
November 29, 2024

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

Crypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 23, 2024

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

Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 18, 2024

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

Democratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
November 09, 2024

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.

Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 03, 2024

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