Daniel Denvir

6 days 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

1 week 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

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.