Aziz Rana: Reviving Resistance to Empire
It’s our 100th episode and the launch of our spring fundraising drive! Aziz Rana returns to The Dig 15 years after the invasion of Iraq to reflect on the paucity …
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Student-Debt Capitalism
It’s obvious that student debt can be an excruciating financial burden. But anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom explains that it has also done a lot to make American families into plunderable financial …
No Human Being Is Illegal with Mae Ngai
Many Americans take the existence of so-called “illegal immigrants” for granted, whatever their opinion of the matter. But illegality isn’t a property of immigrants; rather, it’s a creation of positive …
Real Sanctuary Means Ending Mass Policing with Kade Crockford
Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority countries and those nations he deems to be “shitholes” …
Transcript: MLK, Political Philosopher. With Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry.
Listen to Episode Martin Luther King Jr is often remembered for his soaring oratory. But the commonplace emphasis on his rhetoric rather than his ideas too often allows conservatives to …
MLK, Political Philosopher. With Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry.
View Transcript Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry talk about their new book To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. King is …
Lamb Is Not Enough. Three Leftist Women Run in Pennsylvania
Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory is a stunning rebuke of Republicans. But Lamb is far from an ideal candidate, and so the race also raises a perennial debate between the left …
West Virginia and Labor after Janus with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant
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Gun Culture is Neoliberalism with Patrick Blanchfield
Neoliberal culture is one that expects little from government and everything from plucky individuals—including, apparently, the self-sacrificing courage to charge an AR-15 wielding gunman while your classmates cower behind bulletproof …
Gun Culture and Masculinity in an Age of Decline with Jennifer Carlson
How does gun culture get built from the ground up? What are the everyday politics of guns? Sociologist Jennifer Carlson does ethnographic fieldwork that provides answers to these questions, showing …