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American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of st
Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American
Higher Ed Industrial Unionism w/ Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson
Featuring Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on Rutgers University workers' industrial unionism strategy. The second in a two-part series on the crisis in American higher education. - Check out Dan's interv
Higher Ed Crisis w/ Dennis Hogan
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism. -
The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing
Featuring Shanti Singh, Tracy Rosenthal, Ren Moya, and Cea Weaver on the politics and practice of organizing tenants. - Please donate generously to support Pioneer Tenants United zeffy.com/en-US/dona
Freedom Dreams w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley on Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. - Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email - Peruse our newsletters and vast archives
Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview. - Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramscinotebooks
Gramsci & Hegemony w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. Part one of an expansive two-part interview. - Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan read to prepare: thedigradio.com/gramsci
The Capitalist Conjuncture w/ Tim Barker
Featuring historian Tim Barker on monetary politics, inflation, and the general capitalist conjuncture. The second of a two-part interview. - Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a
Monetary Politics w/ Tim Barker
Featuring historian Tim Barker on the state of monetary politics amid the current fight over inflation. - Check out my July 2021 interview with Barker if you want a more expansive primer on inflation