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Latest Episodes

Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein
February 26, 2022

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. - Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Cris

Feminist International w/ Verónica Gago
February 19, 2022

Feminist political theorist and organizer Verónica Gago on Argentina’s massive feminist movement and strike, the ties that bind domestic labor and financial exploitation, neoliberalism from below, and

Inflamed w/ Raj Patel and Rupa Marya
February 11, 2022

Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Financial Empire w/ Daniela Gabor & Ndongo Samba Sylla
February 04, 2022

Olúfẹmi Táíwò guest hosts an interview with Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Cons

Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko
January 28, 2022

An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko. - Read Volodymyr's work: truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-a

Biden’s Pandemic w/ Justin Feldman
January 21, 2022

Epidemiologist Justin Feldman makes a comprehensive and devastating critique of Biden's pandemic response. - Read Justin's essay: jmfeldman.medium.com/?p=88452c696f2 - Support this podcast at Patreon

Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
January 14, 2022

Historian Gabriel Winant discusses The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America. It's a fascinating study of the emergence of the service sector and a new work

Interregnum w/ Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh, Wendy Brown
January 06, 2022

Everyone feels bad right now because conditions are awful and the outlook is bleak. What is going on, and where might things be headed? How might we become unstuck from this interregnum? Dan interview

Private Money with Stefan Eich
December 22, 2021

Episode two of our two-part series on cryptocurrency: political theorist Stefan Eich on how crypto fits into Hayek's old neoliberal dream of private money and why that vision emerged in a new form in

Cryptocurrency w/ Edward Ongweso Jr & Jacob Silverman
December 16, 2021

Edward Ongweso Jr. and Jacob Silverman on cryptocurrency, NFTs, Elon Musk, the metaverse, meme stocks, and techno-utopianism amid the crushing reality of our neoliberal hellscape. The first in a two-e