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Recent Episodes

Right Riot with Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes

Posted January 11, 2021 • 01:51:27

Nikhil Pal Singh and Joe Lowndes discuss and debate today's American Right: what sort of threat does the Far-Right pose? How does it relate to the Republican...

The Social Question with Gabriel Winant

Posted January 3, 2021 • 02:09:08

Dan interviews historian and essayist Gabriel Winant on the social worlds that make US politics and how that sociality is rooted in the economy, carceral...

Family Values with Melinda Cooper

Posted December 27, 2020 • 01:46:30

From The Dig archives: Dan interviews Melinda Cooper about her book, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, which makes...

China and the US with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

Posted December 19, 2020 • 02:01:29

A big-picture interview with Tobita Chow and Jake Werner on China that puts today's geopolitical conflict and repression into the context of global...

How Left Parties Neoliberalized with Stephanie Mudge

Posted December 11, 2020 • 02:19:49

What happened to social democratic politics? Dan interviews sociologist Stephanie Mudge on her book Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism...