Michael and Us: Roadside Picnic
Is Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979) about the Soviet Russia in which it was made? And if not, then where exactly is "The Zone"? We wade into one of the most forbidding cinematic objects of all time, ...
30 Okt 20241h 31min
The Dig: Solidarity w/ Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Featuring Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigGet 4...
29 Okt 20241h 30min
Behind the News: The Scale of US Aid to Israel w/ William Hartung
William Hartung, co-author of a recent paper for Brown University's Watson Institute, outlines how much aid the US has given to Israel over the last year (plus, he shares some wacky stuff on AI weapon...
28 Okt 202453min
Long Reads: The German Peasants' War w/ Martin Empson
The German Peasants’ War was the biggest social revolt in a European country during the period before the French Revolution. In the wake of the Reformation, a movement among the popular classes rose u...
24 Okt 20241h 2min
Michael and Us: Requiem for a Joker
Five years after Joker because an era-defining cultural phenomenon, its sequel, JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024), is the biggest flop of the year. We sifted through the wreckage to find a purposely abrasive...
22 Okt 202447min
Behind the News: The Belligerence of Biden-Harris w/ Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven dissects the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden-Harris foreign policy. Lily Lynch, author of a recent article for The Baffler, talks about the emptying out of the Balkans.B...
21 Okt 202453min
The Dig: Down the Rabbit Hole w/ Naomi Klein
Featuring Naomi Klein on how the pandemic turbocharged a far-right conspiracist politics that’s sweeping into power. This strange new world, however, is a product of an old contradiction: the need to ...
18 Okt 20241h 40min
Behind the News: Revisiting Marx's Capital w/ Paul North & Paul Reitter
Paul North and Paul Reitter discuss their new translation of Marx’s Capital. Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzhaky, authors of a recent article for Jacobin, talk about the vicious political culture of ...
17 Okt 202453min
