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Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce
June 17, 2025

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
June 08, 2025

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
May 29, 2025

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
May 19, 2025

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
May 10, 2025

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
May 03, 2025

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
April 26, 2025

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
April 19, 2025

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
April 10, 2025

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
April 02, 2025

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