Podcast Episodes

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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago

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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago