Podcast Episodes

Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol

Ayşe Zarakol on her book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. How centuries of Asian empires from Genghis Khan to Timur and th…

4 years, 2 months ago

Bonds of Inequality w/ Destin Jenkins

Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, which makes a powerful argument about how the ubiquitou…

4 years, 2 months ago

Police w/ Mariame Kaba and Geo Maher

Mariame Kaba and Geo Maher discuss police, the politics of policing, abolition, reform—and more.

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4 years, 2 months ago

Price Wars w/ Rupert Russell & Isabella Weber

Rupert Russell and Isabella Weber discuss Russell’s book Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World and also the current politics…

4 years, 3 months ago

Vaccine Apartheid Endures w/ Achal Prabhala

Astra interviews Achal Prabhala on the lethal persistence of global vaccine apartheid. Moderna is selfishly refusing to share or even sell (license) …

4 years, 3 months ago

Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung

The second of our two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political and economic history. This episode covers the 2008 financial …

4 years, 3 months ago

China Boom w/ Ho-fung Hung

Part one of a two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political economic history from the 18th century to 2008: why capitalism to…

4 years, 3 months ago

War w/ Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder

Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder on the war, its origins, how it’s being experienced by Ukrainians, Russians, Europeans, and Americans—and also its geo…

4 years, 4 months ago

Russia Invades w/ Tony Wood

Tony Wood returns to The Dig to discuss Russia’s invasion, what it reflects about Russian politics and geopolitics today and historically, and how th…

4 years, 4 months ago

Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.

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4 years, 4 months ago