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Latest Episodes

How Capitalism Works w/ Nancy Fraser
July 18, 2022

Featuring Nancy Fraser on why a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view: what everyday labor exploitation requires from politics, care work, war-making,

It’s Still Capitalism w/ Evgeny Morozov
July 08, 2022

Featuring Evgeny Morozov on his essay "Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason." Thinkers from the Marxist left all the way to the neoliberal and even neo-reactionary right are convinced that we’ve exited ca

Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
July 01, 2022

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons i

In This House w/ Jared Clemons
June 24, 2022

Political scientist Jared Clemons on feckless liberal anti-racism: how In This House We Believe racial liberalism leaves racial capitalism's inequalities in place and why, drawing on Martin Luther Kin

The American Right w/ Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
June 18, 2022

Know Your Enemy hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell on terrifyingly protean right-wing American politics. - Check out our newsletter: thedigradio.com/newsletter - Read James Pogue on the New Right

Gunpower Death Drive w/ Patrick Blanchfield
June 10, 2022

Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email. - Check out our mos

The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer
June 05, 2022

Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: T

Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar
May 28, 2022

What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it? Ruth Wilson Gilmore with Alberto Toscano and Brenna

Center and Periphery w/ Margarita Fajardo
May 21, 2022

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American econ

The Return of Labor Militancy
May 13, 2022

Live from New York: Dan interviews Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Jaz Brisack of Starbucks Workers United, SEIU Local 1199NE president Rob Baril, Jacobin writer Alex Press, and Labor Notes