Oct 5

Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks

Featuring Chris Brooks on labor’s crisis and the strategic, militant class struggle that can turn it all around. Brooks, former chief of staff to UAW President Shawn Fain, urges organizers to be flexible in their methodology, explains the federal monitor’s anti-left lawfare again ... Show More

2h 29m

Sep 26

Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-economic era. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Find Against Tech Oligarchy ... Show More

2h 46m

Sep 19

Winning Providence w/ Ben Shanahan

Featuring Ben Shanahan, the architect of socialist David Morales’ victorious campaign to be the Democratic nominee for mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. The Providence left ran a slate of left-wing candidates that not only elected Morales but also swept every single contested ci ... Show More

2h 26m

Nov 2021

The Dig: The Dawn of Everything w/ David Wengrow

Astra Taylor interviews archaeologist David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber. Support us at <a href="http://Patreon.com/TheDig" rel="nofollow">Patreon.com/TheDig</a> < ... Show More

1h 37m

Dec 2021

DAWN OF EVERYTHING: The True History of Humanity

What if everything we think we know about the history of our species is wrong? That’s the provocative question at the heart of a new book by today’s guest, David Wengrow. Hailed as fascinating, brilliant, and potentially revolutionary, “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Hu ... Show More

1h 20m

Dec 2021

237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike — either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. D ... Show More

1h 33m

May 2023

49. The Dawn of Everything

Is slavery hardwired into society? Is hierarchy inevitable? Who built the pyramids? Listen as William and Anita are joined by David Wengrow to discuss slavery in the world’s most ancient civilizations. Sign up to The Knowledge here: www.theknowledge.com/empire/ LRB Empire offer ... Show More

57m 22s

Jul 2022

A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality | David Wengrow

What if the commonly accepted narratives about the foundation of civilization are all wrong? Drawing on groundbreaking research, archaeologist David Wengrow challenges traditional thinking about the social evolution of humanity -- from the invention of agriculture to the formatio ... Show More

17m 57s

Mar 2025

The Origins of Abundance

To mark the release of our new book “<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488">Abundance</a>,” my co-author Derek Thompson had me on his podcast, “<a href="https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-thompson">Plain Eng ... Show More

1h 12m

May 2021

David Wallace-Wells

New York Magazine Journalist David Wallace-Wells joins Dr. Drew this week to discuss his extensive work on climate change and his book 'The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming'. Learn more about David by following him on Twitter @DWallaceWells. Visit AirMedCareNetwork.com/dre ... Show More

1h 1m