The 6 Best The Dig Podcast Episodes
1) 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 digital democracy obscure how leaders are made more...Show More
2) Hamas w/ Tareq Baconi
Featuring Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. This is the context we need. And it is precisely what mainstream discourse mystifies, denies, and disavows. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig ...Show More
3) Uprising with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali
Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed. Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn...Show More
4) Black Socialism, Nationalism, Neoliberalism with Michael Dawson
Dan discusses the history of black politics in the US—left, nationalist, liberal, and neoliberal—with Michael Dawson. Check out New Dawn, Michael's podcast on race and capitalism: https://podcasts....Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Revisiting Racecraft with Barbara and Karen Fields
A lengthy interview with historian Barbara Fields and sociologist Karen Fields on their seminal essay collection Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Dan talks to the sister scholars ab...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, were violently removed. On some level, everyone knows this—yet it’s mostly nowhere to be found in stories that Americans tel...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...Show More
8) Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...Show More
9) Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan
Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision ...Show More
10) Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the ...Show More