Best Daniel Denvir Podcasts (2025)

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Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken 1:45:19

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Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general electoral strategy since the beginning. Organizers everywhere have a lot to learn. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDi…

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What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris 1:55:18

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Featuring Malcolm Harris on What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. An open-minded and anti-sectarian discussion about an ecumenical book that plots out three paths forward for the left—arguing we must embrace all three, simultaneously. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Live Dig in Brooklyn on December 10: Zohran and the Return o…

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500th Episode Party w/ Brace and Liz 41:03

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Featuring Brace Belden, Liz Franczak, Gabriel Winant, Aziz Rana, Sumaya Awad, Thea Riofrancos, and Alex Lewis. Toasts and roasts celebrating 500 episodes of The Dig. Plus a short speech from Dan. Live at Brooklyn’s Littlefield. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Live Dig in Brooklyn on December 10: Zohran and the Return of Municipal Socialism. N…

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Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos 2:34:14

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Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this discussion, lithium—all of which must be mined from the earth. This is a wide-ranging discussion stretching from Chile to Nevada, and from the dawn of col…

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Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad 1:00:04

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Featuring Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister of Brazil. He served as mayor of São Paulo and in 2018 was the Workers’ Party (PT) presidential candidate. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy …

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Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga 2:08:42

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Featuring Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga on neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist radical projects and the Global South social movement and civil society networks that rose from the ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. A wide-ranging interview with two important, long-standing Global South leaders. Call in to leave a question for The Dig’s …

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Another World Was Possible 1:31:13

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Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions, farmers, environmentalists, public interest advocates, and various radical leftists all over the world. Recorded live in Brussels with the European T…

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From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper 2:18:19

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Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficits. Deep cuts to the social wage like welfare reform disciplined labor so severely that Fed Chair Alan Greenspan opened the floodgates of easy money co…

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Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C (trailer) 4:05

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Today we're posting a trailer for OVERSHOOT, an exciting new series forthcoming from our friends over at Planet B Productions. OVERSHOOT is hosted by Laurie Laybourn, author of Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown, published by Verso Books. In 2015, the world agreed to limit global heating to 1.5°C. Ten years later, te…

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Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper 1:53:59

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Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the single-family suburban home to the stock market. This revanchist offensive sought to enforce not only the class order and fiscal rectitude but also g…

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State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader 1:17:33

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Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism already immanent in the US carceral and imperialist state? The SECOND in a two-part series. Call in to leave a question for The Dig’s ma…

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Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader 1:57:40

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Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism already immanent in the US carceral and imperialist state? The FIRST in a two-part series.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCall in t…

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Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan 1:50:35

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Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.Check out HELU higheredlaborunited.orgSupport The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigDig 500th Episode Party November 7 …

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Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley 42:07

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Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley listening back and reflecting upon old tapes of the interviews with sharecroppers he conducted in the 1980s while researching Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. This is an episode of Signal Hill, a new audio magazine made by friends of The Dig. Produced by Conor Gillies and edited by Liza Yea…

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Death and Life Under Capitalism w/ Sarah Jaffe 1:40:27

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Featuring Sarah Jaffe on her book From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. The ordinary death of a loved one under a capitalist order that routinely forbids sufficient time off to mourn. Workplace injuries, deindustrialization, police violence, pandemic, genocide, social murder, and how we can make sense of loss through struggle.Sup…

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Chicago’s Left Experiment

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Featuring Alex Han, Asha Ransby-Sporn, and Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor on Chicago's left political experiment. In the wake of Zohran's remarkable victory in New York, organizers all over the country are taking a close look at Chicago under Mayor Brandon Johnson. A Chicago Teachers Union leader elected in 2023, Johnson's win was the culmination of ye…

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Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams 1:57:54

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Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the affordable housing, green energy, and fast trains we need; and how actual capitalist social relations appear to us in mystified form as “supply” and “demand…

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Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant 1:32:34

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Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to act like an opposition party; and the resurgent dynamism and energy now coming so powerfully from our political forces on the socialist left. Conducte…

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How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA 1:54:40

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Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history and offers a model for the left everywhere across the United States. A behind-the-scenes look at how NYC DSA and the Zohran campaign did it!Support Th…

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Israel’s Forever Wars w/ Mouin Rabbani 1:33:24

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Featuring Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s war on Iran, possible direct US intervention, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Chicago: come see The Dig live! secure.actblue.com/donate/thedigliveListen to Thawra and our five-part Iran series: thedigradio.com/seriesSupport The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigRead Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in Sidecar newleftreview.o…

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Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce 2:28:36

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Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. Interview by guest host Astra Taylor.We are working on an episode analyzing Israel's war on Iran amid the ongoing Gaza genocide—it will be out soon. For now, check out our five-part series on the history of I…

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From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn 2:09:06

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Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020's summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: "The pressing question is how we went from twenty-six million people on the streets to a fascist in the White House?” We must urgently build organizations and movements that meet th…

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Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy 2:42:33

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Featuring Derek Guy on the politics, history, economics, and style of Western menswear. Guest hosted by Dennis M. Hogan.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigIn These Times is offering 78% off print subscriptions for Dig listeners at Inthesetimes.com/dig Buy I Didn't Come Here to Lie at Haymarketbooks.com…

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Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian 2:34:25

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Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. MAGA and its far-right populist siblings around the world aren’t just a backlash to neoliberalism. The far-right has also long been animated by extremist mutant neoliberal anarcho-capitalist and paleo-libertarian strains that in the 1980s an…

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A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon 55:41

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Featuring Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing French party La France Insoumise. How the radical left confronts and then defeats the far-right, in France and everywhere. Recorded before an audience at n+1’s Brooklyn office.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigRegister for "Our Collective Is the Prize" at comrades.education Buy Reconsidering …

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Rogue State w/ Aziz Rana 2:15:34

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Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the final in a four-part series, traces the great unraveling of the American empire from the 1970s to our present MAGA 2.0 moment.Would you like to know more? Aziz made a bibliography for you: thedigradio.com/…

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Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken 1:45:19

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What’s Left w/ Malcolm Harris 1:55:18

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500th Episode Party w/ Brace and Liz 41:03

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Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos 2:34:14

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Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad 1:00:04

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Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga 2:08:42

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Another World Was Possible 1:31:13

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From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper 2:18:19

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Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C (trailer) 4:05

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Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper 1:53:59

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State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader 1:17:33

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Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader 1:57:40

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Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan 1:50:35

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Pie Down Here w/ Robin D.G. Kelley 42:07

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Death and Life Under Capitalism w/ Sarah Jaffe 1:40:27

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Chicago’s Left Experiment

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Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams 1:57:54

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Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant 1:32:34

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How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA 1:54:40

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Israel’s Forever Wars w/ Mouin Rabbani 1:33:24

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Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce 2:28:36

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From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn 2:09:06

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Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy 2:42:33

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Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian 2:34:25

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A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon 55:41

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Rogue State w/ Aziz Rana 2:15:34