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Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary
Brazil w/ Sabrina Fernandes & Andre Pagliarini
Bolsonaro is presiding over mass COVID deaths and the destruction of the Amazon. Lula is free and polling way ahead for next year's presidential election. But the conditions that brought the far-right
Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 2
The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s m
Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 1
Part one of Dan's two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba's mil
The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow
Astra Taylor interviews archaeologist David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber. - Support us at Patreon.com/TheDig - Ch
Striketober
Guest host Gabriel Winant interviews labor journalists Alex Press and Jonah Furman, as well as IATSE member Victor P. Bouzi. - Listen to Primer, Alex's podcast about Amazon patreon.com/primerpodcast
Strike! with Jane McAlevey
A Striketober episode from The Dig archives. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter by email
The Right to Sex with Amia Srinivasan
What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Centu
The Big Scary ‘S’ Word w/ Yael Bridge
A very short ep on a great new documentary about the history and present of American socialism: The Big Scary S-Word. It’s by Yael Bridge, and it's the perfect film to show to your skeptical uncle or
Afghanistan with Tariq Ali
Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup, Soviet invasion, and US-backed mujahideen