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Latest Episodes

New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
March 24, 2025

Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics. We discuss: the fault lines of the green energy transition; the US and China battle for domi

Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay
March 19, 2025

Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington's shredding of the liberal international orders legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with Ch

Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc
March 12, 2025

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
March 05, 2025

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
February 25, 2025

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
February 17, 2025

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
February 09, 2025

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
February 01, 2025

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
January 27, 2025

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
January 19, 2025

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