Podcast Episodes

Anti-Populism with Thomas Frank

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Thomas Frank about his book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.

From The Dig archives on populism:
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5 years, 7 months ago

The NAACP’s Anti-Lynching Struggle with Megan Ming Francis

Dan interviews political scientist Megan Ming Francis about the NAACP’s struggle against racist violence in the teens and 20s and how it remade the c…

5 years, 7 months ago

Mike Davis on This Moment

Dan interviews Mike Davis on what the election reveals about this US political moment and the way forward for the Left.

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5 years, 8 months ago

What Now with Cornel West

Dan interviews Cornel West on how to think about and act upon the world that this week presented to us.

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5 years, 8 months ago

2020 with Naomi Klein and Nikhil Pal Singh

What else to talk about right now other than everything about right now? Election, pandemic, BLM, climate, and how the left should think about and st…

5 years, 8 months ago

Ruins of Neoliberalism with Wendy Brown

Political theorist Wendy Brown on how neoliberalism attacked society and democracy and in doing so laid the foundation for right-wing authoritarianis…

5 years, 8 months ago

Unforgetting with Roberto Lovato

Roberto Lovato on Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. Growing up Salvadoran-American in The Mission, …

5 years, 8 months ago

SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law

Dan interviews legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal RBG and court ven…

5 years, 9 months ago

Arctic Energy Frontiers with Bathsheba Demuth

Bathsheba Demuth on her monumental book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. From the 19th century through today, governmen…

5 years, 9 months ago

Demystifying Big Tech with Meredith Whittaker

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that’s remaking capit…

5 years, 9 months ago