Transmissions from Jonestown

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 ...  Show more

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Bl ...  Show more

Five bodies were found yesterday inside a shipwrecked yacht in the search for British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and fellow missing passengers. Just hours before the sinking, the party had been celebrating a spectacular legal victory - so what led to this moment?

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Richie McGinniss, independent journalist and author of Riot Diet: One Man's Radical Ride Through America in Chaos, joins to share his firsthand experiences covering the chaos of 2020. From the explosive nights in Kenosha and the Kyle Rittenhouse trial to Portland’s surreal “battl ...  Show more

On Monday evening, the death toll from the flooding in Central Texas rose past 100. A single place accounted for 27 of those deaths: Camp Mystic, a century-old Christian summer camp for girls.

Erin Paisan, who attended Camp Mystic, explains what the place meant to genera ...

In this episode, Karol interviews David Harsanyi, a senior writer at the Washington Examiner and author of 'The Rise of Blue Anon.' They delve into the concept of Blue Anon, exploring how conspiracy theories have evolved, particularly on the left, and the role of media in shap ...