Podcast Episodes

Emergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & Riofrancos

Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What …

3 years ago

Conjuncture w/ Akbar, Winant, & Riofrancos

Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the American conjuncture. Did an era that began with Occupy and Ferguson—marked by teach…

3 years, 1 month ago

The Dig Presents: Power Struggle

Reporter Dharna Noor learns about the Tennessee Valley Authority: the good, the bad, the past, and the future.

This is the 5th episode of The Dig Pre…

3 years, 1 month ago

Bidenomics w/ Daniela Gabor, Ted Fertik, & Tim Sahay

Featuring Daniela Gabor, Ted Fertik, and Tim Sahay on Bidenomics. We define and debate the new American industrial policy, the energy transition, the…

3 years, 2 months ago

The Manifesto w/ China Miéville

Featuring China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto. Miéville is the author of A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.

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3 years, 2 months ago

Counting in Chinese

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…

3 years, 2 months ago

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

Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.

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3 years, 2 months ago

The Fall of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

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 histo…

3 years, 3 months ago

The Rise of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

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 histor…

3 years, 3 months ago

Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar

Featuring Brenna Bhandar on Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership. The centuries-long history of how dominant concept…

3 years, 3 months ago