The Dig

The Dig


Latest Episodes

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

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,

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
October 10, 2025

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit

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