The Dig

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Latest Episodes

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
September 30, 2025

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the

State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
September 22, 2025

Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trumps intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGAs fascist and authoritarian projectand about the

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
September 18, 2025

Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trumps intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGAs fascist and authoritarian projectand about the

Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan
September 06, 2025

Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trumps all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision

Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
August 27, 2025

Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the

Death and Life Under Capitalism w/ Sarah Jaffe
August 16, 2025

Featuring Sarah Jaffe on her book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. The ordinary death of a loved one under a capitalist order that routinely forbids sufficient time off to mour

Chicago’s Left Experiment
August 04, 2025

Featuring Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor on Chicago's left political experiment. In the wake of Zohran's remarkable victory in New York, organizers all over the country ar

Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams
July 22, 2025

Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the afford

Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant
July 11, 2025

Featuring Asl Bli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regimes fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishments inability to

How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA
July 01, 2025

Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history