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Latest Episodes

Crypto Dystopia or Popular Democracy w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 23, 2024

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cullar in the final installment of a three-part series on Central America. This episode picks up with Nayib Bukeles authoritarian crypto enthusiasm in El Salvad

Neoliberalism, Violence, Migration w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 18, 2024

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cullar in the second of a three (not two!) part series on the history and present of Central America. This interview picks up our discussion of revolutionary armed

Democratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
November 09, 2024

Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trumps decisive victory, Harriss catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here. - Support The Dig at Patreon.

Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar
November 03, 2024

Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cullar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th and early-20th century rise of export-crop oligar

Solidarity w/ Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
October 28, 2024

Featuring Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig -

Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
October 18, 2024

Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics thats sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a product of an old contradiction: the need to

Thawra Epilogue: Genocide and Resistance
October 11, 2024

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the third and final part of the epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our epic series on the history of revolutionary Arab politics. This episode takes us from Hamas

Ending the New Cold War w/ Jake Werner
October 04, 2024

Featuring Jake Werner on how the US and China entered into a New Cold War and why the whole world urgently needs an alternative international order that fosters great power cooperation. - Read Jake

Third Worldism w/ Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana
September 25, 2024

Featuring Asl Bli and Aziz Rana on the history of left-wing internationalism from the Third Worldist currents that powered decolonization and struggles against neocolonialism through todays renewed

Thawra Epilogue: Decades of American Destruction
September 19, 2024

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the second of what has become a three-part epilogue to Thawra (Revolution), our series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. This episode takes us from the di