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Latest Episodes

Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
December 12, 2025

Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistances sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in t

Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
December 05, 2025

Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran's campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA's field operation and its general e

What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris
November 26, 2025

Featuring Malcolm Harris on What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the left

500th Episode Party w/ Brace and Liz
November 20, 2025

Featuring Brace Belden, Liz Franczak, Gabriel Winant, Aziz Rana, Sumaya Awad, Thea Riofrancos, and Alex Lewis. Toasts and roasts celebrating 500 episodes of The Dig. Plus a short speech from Dan. Live

Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
November 13, 2025

Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc

Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad
November 04, 2025

Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister

Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga
October 28, 2025

Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalisms defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on

Another World Was Possible
October 22, 2025

Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrn, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions,

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
October 10, 2025

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
September 30, 2025

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the