Best Daniel Denvir Podcasts (2025)

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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.org Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Dig 500th Episode Party November…

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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. Su…

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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 T…

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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/thediglive Listen to Thawra and our five-part Iran series: thedigradio.com/series Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Read Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in Sidecar newleftrevie…

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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 …

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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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Black Power, Cold War w/ Aziz Rana 1:36:45

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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 third in what is now a four-part series, looks at how black movements responded as the Vietnam War and the limits of formal civil rights victories combined to explode the Cold War's contradictions.Support …

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Liberal Hegemon w/ Aziz Rana 2:41:07

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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 second in a three-part series, takes the story from World War I’s hyper-nationalist, xenophobic First Red Scare, through the convulsions of the middle decades of the 20th century: the Communist Party USA, …

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Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana 2:18:56

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Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American capitalist, imperialist project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution. This episode, the first in a three-part series, traces the foundation of the American settler empire from the revolutionary generation up to the eve of World War I.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheD…

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Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke 1:44:00

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Jeff Schuhrke on his book Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade. During the Cold War, organized labor’s top leadership acted as an agent of the US national security state abroad: undermining left-wing unions, fomenting right-wing coups, and promoting the US-led capitalist order. At home, those same forces d…

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New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay 2:18:35

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Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics. We discuss: the fault lines of the green energy transition; the US and China battle for dominance while the rest of the world seeks advantage and opportunities for leverage; the US and Russia’s full-throttle commitment to fossil capitalism; t…

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Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay 1:51:44

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Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington's shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with China; Gaza genocide; Trump’s tariff wars and militarism, and his pivot toward Putin on Ukraine; European defense buildup and fiscal revolution; what th…

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Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc 1:40:25

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Featuring Eric Blanc on We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. Interview conducted by guest host Gabriel Winant.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigDefend federal workers and federal services: actionnetwork.org/forms/let-us-work/Contact the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) for help o…

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Slopworld w/ Brace Belden and Liz Franczak 2:32:15

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Featuring TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone’s minds, including their own. Now they’re seizing the state.The hideous AI “art” we discuss: https://bit.ly/4ksG1aMhttp://bit.ly/3DmDfTDSupport The Dig at Patreon.com/T…

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Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy 2:28:27

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Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions to the class domination of capital and struggles against it. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigRead Mike’s article "The Problem of Class Abst…

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Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr 2:15:06

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Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that's been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social media. We trace the rise of psychiatry as a Gilded Age human science, the disastrous contradictions of asylum deinstitutionalization, the invention of neu…

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Deportation Nation w/ Chris Newman 2:35:21

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Featuring Chris Newman on Trump's far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats' cruel and stupid complicity.Read All-American Nativism versobooks.com/products/704-all-american-nativismRead Dan's essay on Gaza and migration politics in n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-borderTrump's immigration executive orders propublica.org/article/donald-tr…

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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

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Black Power, Cold War w/ Aziz Rana 1:36:45

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Liberal Hegemon w/ Aziz Rana 2:41:07

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Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana 2:18:56

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Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke 1:44:00

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New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay 2:18:35

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Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay 1:51:44

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Workers Organizing Workers w/ Eric Blanc 1:40:25

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Slopworld w/ Brace Belden and Liz Franczak 2:32:15

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Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy 2:28:27

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Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr 2:15:06

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Deportation Nation w/ Chris Newman 2:35:21