Show overview
Podcast Archives - The Dig has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 550 episodes. That works out to roughly 640 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 34m and 2h 9m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2018, with 94 episodes published. Published by Daniel Denvir.
From the publisher
A podcast from Jacobin magazine. By Daniel Denvir.
Latest Episodes
View all 550 episodesDestruction of the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple
Making the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple
Nusantara Ep. 8 – Reform Stalls, Oligarchy Triumphs
Nusantara Ep. 7 – Suharto’s Fall
Nusantara Ep. 6 – Mass Killing, New Order
Nusantara Ep. 5 – Armed Conflicts, Guided Democracy
Primary Struggle w/ Troy Jackson, Francesca Hong, and other insurgent candidates
Nusantara Ep. 4 – Indonesian Republic, Third World Revolution
Dan Denvir’s Theory of Power and Organization
Primary Struggle w/ Claire Valdez and other insurgent candidates
Primary Struggle w/ Abdul El-Sayed and other insurgent candidates
Organizing Zohran’s NYC w/ Alina Shen and Fahd Ahmed
Rogue Elephant w/ Paul Heideman
Nusantara Ep. 3 – Japanese Occupation, Indonesian Revolution
Nusantara Ep. 2 – National Awakening, Red Movement
Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder
Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Find Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads at UCPress.edu Buy Cold War on Five Continents at Haymarketbooks.org
Nusantara Ep. 1 – The Long Arc of Dutch Colonialism
Nusantara is a new Dig series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This episode traces a long period of European plunder and domination that began with the Portuguese and then continued, for centuries, under the Dutch—a story stretching from the murderous mercantilism of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) seeking to monopolize the spice trade to a modern colonial administration profiting from plantations, petroleum, and countless commodities. The first installment features Rianne Subijanto and Made Supriatma. Other scholars of the archipelago will join us in the episodes that follow. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Sign up for SUDAN: Confront Empire Together by April 5th at comrades.education Find Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Writers at UCPress.edu
Anti-War w/ Ben Mabie & Salar Mohandesi
Featuring Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what the war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why the US doesn’t have a massive anti-war movement even amid historic anti-war public sentiment. Capitalist states have changed war-making in ways that insulate imperialism against popular resistance. We must make movements that can thrive and win under new conditions. Find Venezuela in Crisis at haymarketbooks.org Find Anti-Eviction at UCPress.edu Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Dig party in London with Equator magazine this Friday March 13. Tickets all claimed but sign up for the waitlist and you can probably come anyhow. Info here: eventbrite.com/e/the-dig-x-equator-party-tickets-1982694479561?
Primary Strategy w/ Geoff Simpson
Featuring Geoff Simpson on Justice Democrats’ massive 2026 slate of insurgent House candidates taking on AIPAC/Big Tech money. Also: the history of post-Bernie 2016 primary challenges, the Israel lobby’s legitimacy crisis, radicalizing liberals, and the role of electoral politics in the larger left project. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Dig party in London with Equator magazine on March 13. Info and RSVP here eventbrite.com/e/the-dig-x-equator-party-tickets-1982694479561? Subscribe to Heat the Ground Up from Haymarket Originals tinyurl.com/heatthegroundup Find Leave if You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds at UCPress.edu
Breaking the Machine w/ Peter Linebaugh
Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played by capital punishment in the consolidation of the capitalist state, and remaking the struggle against enclosure for the 21st century. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Dig party in London with Equator magazine on March 13. Info and RSVP here eventbrite.com/e/the-dig-x-equator-party-tickets-1982694479561? Find Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy at Haymarketbooks.org Find Revolutions: A New History at Versobooks.com