Podcast Episodes

Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield

Dan interviews Jeanne Morefield on her book Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection and how the disavowed …

5 years, 5 months ago

Digital Party with Paolo Gerbaudo

Dan interviews sociologist Paolo Gerbaudo on his book The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. How does the promise of direct …

5 years, 5 months ago

Pakistan Hyperreality with Fatima Bhutto

Dan interviews author Fatima Bhutto on social media subjectivities; Pakistani history, politics, and identity; and her novel The Runaways.

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5 years, 5 months ago

Resource Radicals with Thea Riofrancos

Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos on how Ecuador’s Pink Tide government was constrained by an unequal world system and on the conflict over mining that …

5 years, 5 months ago

Right Riot with Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes

Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today’s American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Re…

5 years, 6 months ago

The Social Question with Gabriel Winant

Dan interviews historian and essayist Gabriel Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carc…

5 years, 6 months ago

Family Values with Melinda Cooper

From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which make…

5 years, 6 months ago

China and the US with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today’s geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global c…

5 years, 6 months ago

How Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge

What happened to social democratic politics? Dan interviews sociologist Stephanie Mudge on her book Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialis…

5 years, 7 months ago

Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized.” But this often works out quite bad…

5 years, 7 months ago