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Recent Episodes

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...

Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Posted December 5, 2020 • 01:47:32

Prevailing identity politics norms call on people “listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalized." But this often works out quite...