Podcast Episodes

Michael and Us: London and World Assurance

For nearly 20 years, one libertarian businessman with a wildly dangerous theme park held the state of New Jersey under his thumb. We discuss the documentary CLASS ACTION PARK (2020) and its uneasy mi…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Long Reads: The Wounded Knee Uprising w/ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Fifty years ago, a group of Native Oglala Lakota and their supporters occupied a small village called Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Wounded Knee was the site of a notori…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Trailer: The Dig Presents

Coming Soon: The Dig Presents is a new monthly series that features original documentary reporting, personal narrative, and other sonic experiments from a wide range of contributors. 

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Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Behind the News: The State of the Carceral State w/ Wanda Bertram

After some introductory comments on the bank failures, Doug speaks with Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative about the state of the carceral state. Then, Annelle Sheline discusses the Chines…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis

Featuring Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg on how American capitalism and its illusions of whiteness both created the opioid crisis and shaped the response to it. We are discussing…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Michael and Us: I Don't Like Sand

A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exact…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Jacobin Radio: 50 Years of Chilean Politics w/ Marc Cooper

Suzi talks to veteran journalist Marc Cooper, who was a translator to President Salvador Allende in the Popular Unity government from 1970-1973. Marc has memorialized his experience in Chile in Pinoc…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Behind the News: The DeSantis Agenda w/ Paul Ortiz

A Florida follow-up: historian and union president Paul Ortiz on the DeSantis agenda and resistance to it. Then human rights lawyer Noa Levy discusses the far right agenda in Israel and resistance to…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Dig: Labor Histories w/ Nelson Lichtenstein

Featuring Nelson Lichtenstein on his life and scholarship, from membership in the International Socialists and studies of the early United Auto Workers and CIO to his later turn to studying Walmart a…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Jacobin Radio: A Year of War in Ukraine

Suzi talks to Vladyslav Starodubtsev and Jeremy Bigwood about the war in Ukraine, now entering its second year. Russia’s war on Ukraine has been a disaster causing human suffering and economic devast…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago