Aug 5

Making the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple

Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. The first episode of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Unions of Our Own and Femmephilia at Haymarketbooks.org

2h 24m

Jul 22

Nusantara Ep. 8 – Reform Stalls, Oligarchy Triumphs

The eighth and final episode in a 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 last installment picks up with the 2014 election of Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, to the pres ... Show More

2h 15m

Jul 14

Nusantara Ep. 7 – Suharto’s Fall

The seventh episode in a 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 penultimate installment analyses the 1998 fall of Suharto and his New Order dictatorship. Basic ... Show More

2h 10m

Jun 2023

Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, "A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School" (The New Press, 2023)

Across the U.S., state legislatures-often under the cover of darkness, and usually in spite of public opposition-are passing bills that channel public dollars to private schools. These voucher schemes promise to transfer billions from state treasuries to upper-income families. Bu ... Show More

42m 6s

Oct 2023

Culture Wars Have American Parents Opting for Home-Schooling

Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Businessweek Freelance Contributor Charley Locke explain how in states where conservatives have overhauled curricula, parents on the other side of the political spectrum are taking their kids out of school. Malaika Jabali, Senior News ... Show More

17m 48s

Apr 2018

Behind the News: Teachers' Strikes and Zombie Liberalism

The CUNY Grad Center's Kate Doyle Griffiths on teachers’ strikes and the crisis in social reproduction. Then, <a href="http://www.theariofrancos.com/" rel="nofollow">Thea Riofrancos</a> and <a href="http://www.danieldenvir.com/" rel="nofollow">Daniel Denvir</a> join to discuss Ya ... Show More

52m 2s

Nov 2022

Meet The Parents Taking Over School Boards

For decades, parents have been passionate about what their children learn in school. In 1970s West Virginia they protested over diverse textbooks, in 2022 it’s the handling of the pandemic and issues of gender and race. In this episode, Audie talks to two parent activists turned ... Show More

36m 32s

Apr 2020

Charles Steele, Arthur Herman, Ben Whalen, and Becky Holland

TOPICS: Right To Work laws, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Ernest Hemingway, & teaching classical education at home<br><br>Host Scot Bertram talks with Charles Steele, from Hillsdale's economics department, about the fight over Right to Work laws in the U.S. Arthur Herman, senior fellow ... Show More

51m 2s

Sep 2021

2+2 = You're Oppressing Me: It's Our Back-To-School Special!

The politicization of college campuses is now happening in lower and secondary schools. FIRE's Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder, author of "Undoctrinate," tells Danielle how parents can recognize it and deal with it. PLUS: Christina Hoff Sommers joins the cocktail segment to discuss "wokef ... Show More

1h 15m

Teach the Children Well w/ Jennifer Berk...