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Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of
Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor
It's Occupy Wall Street's tenth anniversary. Dan interviews Astra Taylor. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our new weekly newsletter. - Listen to other pods in the retrospective series
War on Terror W/ Spencer Ackerman Part 3
Episode three of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Decadence, Trump, and Biden. - Subscribe to Spencer’s Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman - Suppo
War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 2
Episode two of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Obama, ISIS, and the Sustainable War. - Subscribe to Spencer’s Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman
War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 1
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush. - Subscribe to Spencer's Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2
The Media War w/ Adam Johnson and Eric Levitz
Media critic Adam Johnson and New York Magazine's Eric Levitz on the media's warmongering attack on Biden's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. - Further reading: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/
Chile w/ Aldo Madariaga & Camila Vergara
Dan interviews scholars Aldo Madariaga and Camila Vergara about how Chilean politics have been playing out since the massive popular uprisings that began in October 2019. - Further reading: jacobinl
Jesus and John Wayne w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Dan interviews historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. "Having replaced the Jesus of the Gospels with the veng
Inflation Politics with Tim Barker
Inflation is once again at the center of political debate. Dan interviews Tim Barker to put monetary policy in its historical and class war context. - Reading: Preferred Shares by Tim Barker phenomena
How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber
How China rejected neoliberal orthodoxy and became the new workshop of the world. Dan interviews economist Isabella Weber on her book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. - Supp