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Recent Episodes

Demystifying Big Tech with Meredith Whittaker

Posted September 25, 2020 • 02:08:55

Guest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that's remaking capitalism,...

Child Safety Sex Panics with Paul Renfro

Posted September 19, 2020 • 02:04:58

Dan interviews historian Paul Renfro on his book Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State. Stranger Danger is also...

Higher Ed in Crisis

Posted September 12, 2020 • 01:57:19

Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya, Daniel Bessner, Simon Torracinta on the manifold crises engulfing higher ed as covid exposes and exacerbates decades...

Philly Black Power with Matthew Countryman

Posted September 3, 2020 • 02:11:09

Dan interviews historian Matthew Countryman on his book Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Join a Dig Book Club reading group and...

Yanis Varoufakis on the Economic Situation

Posted August 23, 2020 • 01:14:17

Dan's recent live event with Yanis Varoufakis on how 2020 revealed that 2008 had changed capitalism forever. Also: we had some pod feed issues last...