The Dig: Ebola in West Africa with Adia Benton
Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today.Please support this podcast with your money at patreo...
23 Touko 20201h 19min
Casualties of History: When We Burn Down Your Barn
We're on to Part II of The Making of the English Working Class. We cover chapter six and seven--"Exploitation" and "The Field Labourers," plus discuss the 1986 film Comrades, which follows the Tolpudd...
23 Touko 20201h 8min
Behind the News: Green New Deal, Vaccines
Thea Riofrancos, co-author of this book, on why the Green New Deal is more urgent than ever. Then, Alexander Zaitchik, author of this article, on how the profit-driven drug industry is an obstacle to ...
18 Touko 202054min
The Dig: Science for the People with Nafis Hasan and Frank Rosenthal
Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science.Subscribe to Science for th...
17 Touko 20202h 5min
Casualties of History: "Are We Not Always in an Exceptional Situation?"
With guest Asad Haider, we discuss at length the theoretical polemic of E.P. Thompson against Louis Althusser. What was the historical context for each side of this conflict (in which Althusser never ...
14 Touko 20201h 23min
The Dig: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser [From the archives]
Dan is playing catch up. Here's a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism's totality, including socially rep...
9 Touko 20201h 21min
Casualties of History: The Ruffian Crew of Power
We cover Chapter Five, but first have an extensive discussion of the debate between Thompson and Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn over the history of social class and economic development in England, with...
6 Touko 20201h 21min
Coronavirus in Scandinavia; Southern Politics
Michael Seltzer is a cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus at Oslo University in Norway. There is a sharp contrast in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic between Norway, Finland, and Denmar...
5 Touko 202057min
