Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that's remaking capitalism, empire, and the carceral state. - FYI: Whittaker mentioned this interview with Sarah T.

Dan interviews historian Paul Renfro on his book Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State. - Stranger Danger is also this month's Dig Book Club book. Read and discuss it with fellow listeners,

Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya, Daniel Bessner, Simon Torracinta on the manifold crises engulfing higher ed as covid exposes and exacerbates decades of austerity and neoliberal iniquity. - "House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?

Dan interviews historian Matthew Countryman on his book Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. - Join a Dig Book Club reading group and discuss Up South with Countryman on September 12. Sign up here thedigradio.com/dig-book-club -

Dan's recent live event with Yanis Varoufakis on how 2020 revealed that 2008 had changed capitalism forever. - Also: we had some pod feed issues last week. If you missed Dan's interview with brilliant organizers Andres Celin and Rapheal Randall—and th...

A must-listen conversation on organizing to win with two extraordinary organizers from Philadelphia's Youth United for Change. - Download their book Y’all Tryna Win or Nah?! https://www.youthunitedforchange.org/y_all_tryna_win_or_nah -

Dan interviews Kelly Lytle Hernández on MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. - Dan's 2017 interview with Lytle Hernández on City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965: thedigradio.

Dan's 2018 interview with Matthew Frye Jacobson on Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America. With a new intro from Dan on the Columbus myth and the politics of white ethnicity. - Support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Our police system is a product of Cold War US imperialism too. Dan interviews Stuart Schrader on Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. - Support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig

This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History. - Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig