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Latest Episodes

Empire in the Philippines with Rick Baldoz
April 24, 2021

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
April 16, 2021

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
April 11, 2021

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
April 01, 2021

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
March 26, 2021

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
March 20, 2021

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
March 13, 2021

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
March 13, 2021

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
March 05, 2021

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
February 25, 2021

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