@danieldenvir.bsky.social
Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
New Dig: interview w/ organizers Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on the Minneapolis fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. Critical lessons on the importance of structure-based orgs/mass base plus flexibility amid crisis www.thedigradio.com/podcast/minn...
30.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0An outstanding inquiry into the nature of Trump’s foreign policy—how it represents both an intensification of previous practices and a decisive break with them, how it arises from and compounds domestic inequalities, the prospects for a form of domination actively opposed to hegemony.
30.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Asli is on fire here. 1.5 hours in is a bracing series of points about how much precedent there is for Trump’s lawlessness. If we’re going to rebuild we need to confront the long pattern and not just Trump’s insane variations
thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
Fruktansvärt relevant. Det här är besten.
29.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The contradictions remained unsolvable because anti-immigrant policy could not deliver the better country it promised. As symbolically satisfying as one might find them, you can’t eat racism and war. The prevailing response, however, wasn’t that the strategy was wrong, but that it simply wasn’t being implemented with sufficient vigor
Border enforcement inevitably stokes racism and xenophobia because the fences, walls, and army of agents are a monument to racist and xenophobic principles. And these principles have the structure of an infinite, unsatisfiable demand whose fulfillment only reinforces the desire for more.
This piercingly sharp summary of immigration politics is doomed to become more and more relevant the longer we allow it to fester.
From @danieldenvir.bsky.social's 2020 book "All-American Nativism"
Consistently one of the best podcasts out there!
28.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0This is excellent. On the full force of what we’re up against. For the AI haters and aspiring Luddites like me, a reminder to guard against armchair contempt for the bubbling slop machine.
28.01.2026 12:28 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0liberals: listen to @thedigradio.bsky.social
The soothing and steady voice of Daniel Denvir will remind you of NPR *and* you’ll learn a lot of new stuff!
The timing was suspiciously perfect: the interview appeared the exact moment the book hit my hands. I’ll start with the book and then the interview… unless curiosity wins!
27.01.2026 22:31 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0This is really one of the best political podcasts out there. This episode lays out so much history and context for the present situation in Venezuela. It’s clear-eyed about the Maduro government‘s abuses without once letting that justify this ugly new chapter in US imperialism. I learned a lot.
27.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Very much looking forward to this - Silicon Empires by @nsrnicek.bsky.social is the best book I've read on the political economy of AI
27.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 53 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
27.01.2026 10:18 — 👍 59 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
30m in, fantastic so far. it's everything the left needs to hear. taking notes, will have more to say later. I expected no less of @danieldenvir.bsky.social and @nsrnicek.bsky.social
27.01.2026 01:57 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
26.01.2026 23:43 — 👍 111 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 10Highly recommend — and it takes up many of the analytical frameworks and conjunctural analyses elaborated by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social in @thedigradio.bsky.social’s 5 part history of modern Iran from 2022 thedigradio.com/History%20of...
23.01.2026 07:31 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Very illuminating discussion!
22.01.2026 18:27 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is an excellent episode and continues the deeper connections, explanations and continuity lens to piece together much of what we're seeing now and also how we need to pivot to address it.
22.01.2026 15:54 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Review of a fascinating new book that demonstrates that we’ve never had an energy transition but rather just accumulation and agglomeration: more and more and more. What’s missing from this is an analysis of capitalism as a social relation and of its corollary the capitalist state.
22.01.2026 14:13 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This is good analysis, making sense out of chaos. Trumpism is both rupture from the neolib/neocon past, and continuation but without the pretenses. "America First" has always been internationalist.
22.01.2026 03:00 — 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0i'm ready for another 4 part series on @thedigradio.bsky.social with Aziz Rana tbh
20.01.2026 19:17 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short @thebaffler.com Link ⬇️
20.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 96 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 5
thedigradio.com/History%20of...
Good time for people who haven’t to listen to @thedigradio.bsky.social 5 part series on the political and social history of modern iran with @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social and golnar nikpour
A really excellent analysis of imperialism, gangsterism and regionalism under Trump 47 - and some sobering thoughts about the connections between violence abroad and the white nationalist agenda at home thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
17.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1The analysis in this episode is evergreen and *extremely* right now, especially because we need to get real about where we are, where we must go, and what it will take to get there.
18.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This is as good as one would expect given that it features Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin
17.01.2026 21:55 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Always always always listen to anything with Asli Bali
17.01.2026 02:15 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Trump is clearly not the isolationist many believed he was. From the wreckage of bipartisan imperialist consensus, Trump's creating a new MAGA model empire. New Dig episode analyzing MAGA Empire and the history that made it with Aslı Bâli and Greg Grandin www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
16.01.2026 23:15 — 👍 51 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 8
The Labubu factory is as much of a nightmare as you would expect
14.01.2026 01:29 — 👍 52 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1Excellent episode. The discussion of the Venezuelan opposition is great, including an observation I haven't seen elsewhere, that the domestic opposition has largely united in opposition to the war. The closing assessment of the overall course of Chavismo is very helpful
10.01.2026 22:36 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
