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Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz
US empire in the Philippines, Filipino migration, labor organizing in the fields, and the nativist campaign for Asian exclusion. Dan interviews Rick Baldoz on his remarkable book The Third Asiatic Inv
Combat Liberalism w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Mindy Isser, & Zachary Hershman
Three thinkers and organizers on the much debated question of ultra-leftism post-Bernie 2020. Two texts that informed our discussion: The Liberal to Ultra-Left Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle by Brian W
Black Left with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Dan interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly on racial capitalism, the history of the US Black left, and the US government's Red Scare attacks on Black radicals. - Read Burden-Stelly's work Modern U.S. Raci
Asian America w/ Andy Liu, Jay Caspian Kang, & Tammy Kim
Dan interviews the hosts of Time to Say Goodbye podcast on Asian American politics and identity. - Check out Time to Say Goodbye wherever you get podcasts. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig
Counterculture to Cyberculture with Fred Turner
How the 60s counterculture went on to make the techno-utopian ideology that suffuses our techno-dystopian reality. Dan interviews Fred Turner on his classic From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewar
Global Vaccine Apartheid with Achal Prabhala
Astra Taylor interviews Achal Prabhala on emerging global vaccine apartheid: from the neoliberal turn handing the pharmaceutical industry global patents to today's government-funded vaccines put under
We Need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams
Why we need the PRO Act with Jimmy Williams, General Vice President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Sign up to join DSA's PRO Act phonebank actionnetwork.org/forms/proactp
State of the Unions with Alex Press & Jonah Furman
Dan interviews Jacobin's Alex Press and organizer Jonah Furman on the state of the labor movement. - Sign up to join DSA's Pro Act phonebank actionnetwork.org/forms/proactphonebank - Read Alex Press's
Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
We're taking a week off to play catch up and posting an early Dig episode from the archives that people keep returning to time and again: Barbara and Karen Fields on their book Racecraft: The Soul of
Work Won’t Love You Back with Sarah Jaffe
Dan interviews Sarah Jaffe on her book Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. - Support this podcast on Patreon.com/TheDig - Join The Dig Book Club