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Latest Episodes

Ebola in West Africa with Adia Benton
May 23, 2020

Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today. - Please support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/thdig

Science for the People with Nafis Hasan and Frank Rosenthal
May 16, 2020

Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science. - Subscribe to Science for the People at magazine.ScienceForThePeople.org

From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser
May 09, 2020

Dan is playing catch up. Here's a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism's totality, including socially reproductive work that makes possible the world that ca...

Don’t Blame Robots with Aaron Benanav
May 01, 2020

Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn't that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse. - Read "Automation and the Future of Work" in New Left Review.

Bigger Than Bernie with Meagan Day & Micah Uetricht
April 23, 2020

Dan interviews Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, the authors of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, to assess the campaign and the way forward. - Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Blowback with Brendan James and Noah Kulwin
April 17, 2020

Dan interviews the makers of Blowback, a new podcast series telling the history of the Iraq War. - Blowback is available only on Stitcher Premium—and for a month you can listen for free. Go to stitcherpremium.com and sign up with the code BLOWBACK.

Fear City with Kim Phillips-Fein
April 13, 2020

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and about how the destruction of social democracy made today's city where coronavirus is killing its poor and working-class...

Organizing Now with Sarah Jaffe & Jasson Perez
April 08, 2020

Dan interviews veteran organizer Jasson Perez and journalist Sarah Jaffe on left organizing amid covid and where it might go. - Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Surviving This Plague with Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves
April 03, 2020

Dan interviews Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the politics of public health and what we can learn from ACT UP. - Please support The Dig with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Who Got Bailed Out with Eric Levitz
March 30, 2020

Dan interviews New York magazine writer Eric Levitz on the big corporate bailout that gave workers precious little to survive the corona crisis. - Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig