Daniel Denvir

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Freelance Writer at Freelance

Host Jacobin's @thedigradio podcast. Author of All-American Nativism from @versobooks. Organizing for housing justice @reclaimri.

Articles

Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy

1 week ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Menswear and the World System w/ Derek Guy 29 May 2025 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/digBuy I Didn’t Come Here to Lie at Haymarketbooks.com
Hayek’s Bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian

2 weeks ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

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.
A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon

4 weeks ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

A Conversation w/ Jean-Luc Mélenchon 10 May 2025 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.educationBuy Reconsidering Reparations at haymarketbooks.com
Rogue State w/ Aziz Rana

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

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/newsletter102Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigBuy Enemy Feminisms and I Didn’t Come Here to Lie at Haymarketbooks.com
Newsletter #102: Constitutional Bind Series Bibliography

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

By Aziz RanaDuring my conversations with Dan, there were many books by scholars I wish I had mentioned. I engage with them in greater detail in The Constitutional Bind. Rather than giving a comprehensive list, I thought I’d mention some sources that were implicit in the exchanges about particular topic areas, such as the US in the Philippines, New Deal constitutionalism, or decolonization.
Newsletter #101: Who’s Going to Save the World?

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

By Edward Ongweso JrLong before Silicon Valley’s supposed right turn, it was a safe space for all manner of reactionaries: eugenicists, phrenologists, anti–New Dealers, ethnonationalists, and more. Still, there seems to be something different about our generation of reactionaries. Maybe it’s the ties to apartheid South Africa, as is the case for the “PayPal mafia”: Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.
Black Power, Cold War w/ Aziz Rana

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

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.
Liberal Hegemon w/ Aziz Rana

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Featuring Aziz Rana on the making of the American project and its legitimation through popular worship of the US Constitution.
Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana

1 month ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

Settler Empire w/ Aziz Rana 10 Apr 2025 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.
Blue Collar Empire w/ Jeff Schuhrke

2 months ago | thedigradio.com | Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

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 destroyed left-wing unions and organizers.