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Latest Episodes

The Manifesto w/ China Miéville
July 09, 2023

Featuring China Miville on The Communist Manifesto. Miville is the author of A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Register for Dan's event with

Counting in Chinese
June 29, 2023

Writer and critic Andrea Long Chu wanted to ask her family one simple question. - The Dig Presents is edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex

AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West
June 25, 2023

Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Subscribe to New Left Re

The Fall of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini
June 18, 2023

Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The second in a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world

The Rise of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini
June 11, 2023

Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The first of a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world s

Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar
June 04, 2023

Featuring Brenna Bhandar on Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership. The centuries-long history of how dominant conceptions of private property were (and are) made alongs

Transmissions from Jonestown
May 27, 2023

A sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple. - Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex L

Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
May 20, 2023

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard, envision a world

Trans Children w/ Jules Gill-Peterson
May 13, 2023

Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and trans childrenand also trans politics more genera

The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han
May 08, 2023

Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han on how Chicago's labor left took over City Hall. Brandon Johnson's mayoral victory, the product of a decade-plus of social movement union