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Latest Episodes

Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
October 03, 2021

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
September 25, 2021

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
September 20, 2021

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
September 15, 2021

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
September 10, 2021

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
September 02, 2021

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
August 26, 2021

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
August 12, 2021

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
July 28, 2021

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
July 13, 2021

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