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Latest Episodes

Philly’s Left Turn w/ Helen Gym & Nikil Saval
May 05, 2023

Featuring Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a long-time public education organizer, a frontrunner in

Superhighway!
April 28, 2023

We have as many roads in the United States as we have streams and rivers. - Produced by Caroline Kanner and Jackson Roach, with original music by Jackson Roach. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Joh

Teach the Children Well w/ Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider
April 23, 2023

Featuring Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider on the politics of public education. The authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Education and the Future of School and co-hosts o

How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey
April 15, 2023

Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor movement. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Da

Zionism’s Civil War w/ Edo Konrad & Joshua Leifer
April 08, 2023

Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Check out +972 Magazine at

The Dig Presents: A Garden in Cairo
March 31, 2023

It started with a few cones and a cryptic sign. - Produced by Omar Etman. Edited by Liza Yeager, Mitchell Johnson, and Daniel Denvir. - Special thanks to Alan Dean, Alex Lewis, and Nihal El Aasar. -

Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon
March 25, 2023

Featuring Max Fox and Chris Nealon on the late Christopher Chitty's book Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig - Che

Trailer: The Dig Presents
March 21, 2023

Coming Soon: The Dig Presents is a new monthly series that features original documentary reporting, personal narrative, and other sonic experiments from a wide range of contributors.

Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
March 19, 2023

Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing

Labor Histories w/ Nelson Lichtenstein
March 13, 2023

Featuring Nelson Lichtenstein on his life and scholarship, from membership in the International Socialists and studies of the early United Auto Workers and CIO to his later turn to studying Walmart an