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Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce
Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryanns book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. Interview by guest host Astra Taylor. - We are working on
From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn
Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020's summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: "The pressing question is how w
Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy
Featuring Derek Guy on the politics, history, economics, and style of Western menswear. Guest hosted by Dennis M. Hogan. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - In These Times is offering 78% off pr
Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist siblings around the world arent just a backlash to neolibe
A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Featuring Jean-Luc Mlenchon, leader of the left-wing French party La France Insoumise. How the radical left confronts and then defeats the far-right, in France and everywhere. Recorded before an audi
Rogue State w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the final in a four-part series, traces the great unravelin
Black Power, Cold War w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the third in what is now a four-part series, looks at how b
Liberal Hegemon w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the second in a three-part series, takes the story from Wor
Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana
Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American capitalist, imperialist project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the first in a three-part series, t
Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke
Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labors Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labors top leadership acted as an agent of the US national se