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Latest Episodes
Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc
Featuring Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheD
Slopworld w/ Brace Belden and Liz Franczak
Featuring TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyones minds, including
Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
Featuring Olfmi O. Tw, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions
Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr
Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that's been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social medi
Deportation Nation w/ Chris Newman
Featuring Chris Newman on Trump's far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats' cruel and stupid complicity. - Read All-American Nativism versobooks.com/products/704-all-american-nativism - Read Dan's
Building the Union w/ Hannah Srajer
Featuring Hannah Srajer on building tenant unions by applying labor organizing models. The Connecticut Tenants Union is partnered with SEIU 1199NE to organize fighting super majority tenant unions tha
Abolish Rent w/ Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal
Featuring Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal on their book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Tenant unions fighting to transform Los Angeles, the country, and the world. - Suppor
Policing the Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, collectively authored by Stuart Hall and his colleagues at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the U
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Halls Marxisma Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory
Rise and Fall of Assad’s Syria w/ Bassam Haddad
Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assads rise and falland what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assads