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Latest Episodes

Conservative Intelligentsia with Sam Adler-Bell & Matt Sitman
February 18, 2021

Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia. - Listen to Know Your Enemy, their really great podcast on the American Right, wh

Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield
February 10, 2021

Dan interviews Jeanne Morefield on her book Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection and how the disavowed wars have come home on the American Right. - Suppo

Digital Party with Paolo Gerbaudo
February 03, 2021

Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more

Pakistan Hyperreality with Fatima Bhutto
January 27, 2021

Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways. - Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/The

Resource Radicals with Thea Riofrancos
January 19, 2021

Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos on how Ecuador's Pink Tide government was constrained by an unequal world system and on the conflict over mining that erupted between leftist President Rafael Correa and

Right Riot with Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes
January 11, 2021

Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today's American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican Party and to the neoliberal imperial Cente

The Social Question with Gabriel Winant
January 03, 2021

Dan interviews historian and essayist Gabriel Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral state, social media, religion, and more. Read

Family Values with Melinda Cooper
December 27, 2020

From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes the case that neoliberalism and social conservati

China and the US with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner
December 19, 2020

A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today's geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global capitalism. - Join a Dig Book Club thedigradio.com/d

How Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge
December 11, 2020

What happened to social democratic politics? Dan interviews sociologist Stephanie Mudge on her book Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism. - Join a Dig Book Club thedigra