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Latest Episodes

The Ruling Class with Doug Henwood
June 29, 2021

Who governs? Upon closer inspection, the composition of the ruling class has undergone huge changes that are driving this political moment. Dan interviews Doug Henwood, the author of "Take Me to Your

Empire’s Workshop with Greg Grandin
June 21, 2021

The history of the United States is in no small part the history of US intervention in Latin America. Historian Greg Grandin on his classic book Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, an

Our History Is the Future with Nick Estes
June 14, 2021

The Dig is taking a break to play catch up this week and posting a favorite interview from our archives: Nick Estes on his book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeli

Climate Politics with Kate Aronoff
June 07, 2021

Journalist Kate Aronoff discusses climate policy and politics and her book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Organizing DSA’s PRO Act Campaign
May 31, 2021

How ecosocialists formed a powerful coalition with unions to fight for labor law reform and why we need a powerful labor movement to win a Green New Deal. An interview with four members of DSA's Green

From the River to the Sea w/ Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi
May 22, 2021

Dan speaks with Noura Erakat and Tareq Baconi: an in-depth interview on Israeli apartheid and dispossession, the history and future of the Palestinian struggle, Israeli politics, media false equivalen

Gaza with Aya Alghazzawi & Issam Adwan
May 18, 2021

Two voices from Gaza. The first of two episodes on Palestine this week with teacher and BDS activist Aya Alghazzawi and journalist Issam Adwan, project manager for We Are Not Numbers. - DONATE NOW to

Hammer and Hoe with Robin D.G. Kelley
May 15, 2021

Dan interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on his classic book Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. - Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

“Cancel Culture” w/ Moira Weigel, Nikhil Pal Singh, Patrick Blanchfield
May 09, 2021

What is so-called cancel culture? Why has it suddenly emerged as arguably the issue in right-wing politics? How does today’s cancel culture discourse differ from the anti-PC discourse that first emerg

Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili
April 30, 2021

Dan interviews Laleh Khalili on Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The Suez Canal, the colonial roots of contemporary maritime trade, Aden dock worker radicals,