The Dig: AOC on US Hegemony and Latin American Sovereignty
Featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Latin American left and the long history of US intervention in the region.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigBuy War Made Invisible thenewpress.com/books/wa...
1 Sep 202351min
Long Reads: The Hidden Rosa Luxemburg w/ Peter Hudis
More than a century after her death in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably one of the most celebrated Marxist thinkers. But until very recently, most of her work had never appeared in English trans...
31 Aug 202354min
Behind the News: A Social History of the Internet w/ Taylor Lorenz
Lisa Corrigan, author of a recent Nation article, explains what the savage cuts at West Virginia University mean for higher ed. Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online, discusses the social history ...
29 Aug 202353min
The Dig: Emergent Terrain w/ Akbar, Winant, & Riofrancos
Featuring Amna Akbar, Gabriel Winant, and Thea Riofrancos on the emerging terrain of struggle. Is American liberalism exhausted or revitalized? What are the successes and limits of the new US left ele...
24 Aug 20232h 14min
Michael and Us: Arrested Development
We've been talking about a lot of soulless, big-budget IP movies that represent a rot in our culture... so how about a how about a hand-crafted, achingly personal movie that exists as a wart on the ba...
22 Aug 202348min
Behind the News: The State of Trans Politics w/ Erin Reed
Sohrab Ahmari, author of Tyranny, Inc., talks about the dictatorship of capital. Erin Reed, aka Erin in the Morning, discusses the state of trans politics.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, cove...
21 Aug 202353min
Michael and Us: Long Live the New Flesh
After years of hearing from censors that violent media images cause harm, David Cronenberg made a movie... in which violent media images cause harm. We discuss VIDEODROME (1983) - its media satire, it...
15 Aug 20231h
Behind the News: US Interests in Niger w/ Caitlin Chandler
Francisco Pérez of the University of Utah talks about the CFA franc. Caitlin Chandler, author of a 2022 Harper's article about "the next frontier in the war on terror," discusses US interests in Niger...
14 Aug 202353min
