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Latest Episodes

Europe w/ Anton Jäger & Dominik Leusder
October 10, 2022

Featuring Anton Jger and Dominik Leusder on Europe and the European Union from the crises of social democratic welfare states in the 1970s and 80s, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, through the eurozone

On the Line w/ Daisy Pitkin
October 02, 2022

Featuring Daisy Pitkin on her book On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union, a memoir that powerfully captures the drama of an organizing driveand so muc

Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib
September 25, 2022

Featuring Laura Weinrib on The Taming of Free Speech: Americas Civil Liberties Compromise. Did you know that the ACLU was founded as a radical labor organization allied with the IWW? Weinrib traces t

Emancipation Circuit w/ Thulani Davis
September 18, 2022

Featuring Thulani Davis on The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom, a monumental history of freedpeople organizing amid the Civl War and Reconstruction. - Support this po

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin Kelley, and Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
September 10, 2022

Featuring Olfmi Tw, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore on racial capitalism, intergenerational organizing, internationalism, and a whole lot more. Dan's live Dig interview from the Socia

The Sahel w/ Rahmane Idrissa
September 02, 2022

Featuring Rahmane Idrissa on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The region has been beset by jihadist insurgencies and, in the case of Mali and Burkina Faso, recent military coups. This is a comprehensive

A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
August 27, 2022

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalisms Geneva Schoolincluding Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm

Worldmaking after Empire w/ Adom Getachew
August 19, 2022

Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 epis

Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram
August 12, 2022

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and

Dead Generations w/ Matt Christman
July 30, 2022

Featuring Matt Christman on how American history brought us to this awful present. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig