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Latest Episodes

Zohran’s Message w/ Andrew Epstein
December 28, 2025

Featuring Andrew Epstein on the Zohran campaigns savvy, funny, sharp, disciplined, and moving comms operation. As one hundred thousand volunteers knocked three million doors, Andrew and a team of strategists, speechwriters, designers, and filmmakers wrot

NYC and the Hegemonic Project
December 19, 2025

Featuring Sumaya Awad, Sumathy Kumar, and Nathan Gusdorf on building power on the ground as our allies exercise it from above in the service of a larger hegemonic project to transform the United States. As Zohran Mamdani takes office on January 1, its ti

Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
December 12, 2025

Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistances sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in the streets, and just generally looking favorably upon s

Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
December 05, 2025

Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general electoral strategy since the beginning. Orga

What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris
November 26, 2025

Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the leftarguing we must embrace all three, simultaneousl

500th Episode Party w/ Brace and Liz
November 20, 2025

Featuring Brace Belden, Liz Franczak, Gabriel Winant, Aziz Rana, Sumaya Awad, Thea Riofrancos, and Alex Lewis. Toasts and roasts celebrating 500 episodes of The Dig. Plus a short speech from Dan. Live

Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
November 13, 2025

Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc

Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad
November 04, 2025

Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister

Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga
October 28, 2025

Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalisms defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. A wide-ranging interview wit

Another World Was Possible
October 22, 2025

Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrn, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions, farmers, environmentalists, public interest advocates,