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Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere.

Host: @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Producer: @alexjrlewis.bsky.social

Listen at http://thedigradio.com
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wats.ink
@nybooks.com mayoral election writeup includes part of @thedigradio.bsky.social episode with the @socialists.nyc co-chairs assessing what the primary win meant
Driving over from MSNBC Land to Commie Corridor yesterday, through the crazy-straw tangle of on-ramps and off-ramps that lead across the East River and into Astoria, I tuned into Daniel Denvir’s podcast “The Dig” for an interview with two of the main Commies from the Corridor, the young cochairs of New York City’s chapter of the DSA, a group I had joined to get some skin in the game from my distant aerie in New England. Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo described the organization’s nimble, decentralized structure, its all-hands-on-deck ethic of empowering volunteers to rise through its ranks, and, notably, its claim upon the career of Zohran Mamdani. The DSA made Mamdani, who has now made the DSA. In the two dozen or so campaigns it has run since 2018, the DSA developed a “leadership layer…right out of the gate,” according to Mausser. Zohran’s first three hires were “cadre DSA members,” its core personnel, she explained. Everything flowed out of those hires: field coordination, volunteer coordination, strategic comms, coalition building, policy writing, endorsements, social media. “The structure was iterative as it grew, and it grew in ways that were beyond expectations”: door knockers became field leads became field coordinators, and on it went. The New York City DSA and the Zohran campaign “were two different entities, and remain so,” Gordillo clarified, but “our members were embedded in every aspect of the campaign.” Mausser neatly summed up the astonishing opportunities and risks of this moment: “You can’t disentangle Zohran from DSA. Even if he wanted to step away from us, which to be clear he does not, but even if he did I think it would be impossible at this point.” It wasn’t meant to be ominous; it was a simple statement of fact. https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/06/have-you-met-z-zohran-mamdani/
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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johnknefel.bsky.social
Can’t wait to go to @thedigradio.bsky.social live tonight. Things might get a little rowdy*

*congenial debates about whether neoliberalism marks a distinct mode of capitalist development or is mostly congruous with earlier eras and forms of accumulation
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
New Dig ep w/ Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination/unequal exchange. How the left must navigate contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/braz...
Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad
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...
www.thedigradio.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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joelreinstein.bsky.social
It was pretty wild to learn listening to @thedigradio.bsky.social that neoliberalism not only created the conditions for MAGA, but from the jump it literally created a windfall for real estate guys including Trump
thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...
Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
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...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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xanlopez.xyz
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You have joined a movement for the rest of vour life.
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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nielsjongerius.bsky.social
En voor eenieder die geïnteresseerd is in hoe die specifieke context vanuit de Zohra Mamdani campagneorganisatie werd getackeld is deze podcast aflevering van @thedigradio.bsky.social een absolute aanrader
open.spotify.com/episode/3Azl...
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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daveishere.bsky.social
this is such a good podcast
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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mtmiller.bsky.social
It is really hard to overstate how important @thedigradio.bsky.social has been for sharpening the Left's political analysis in recent years.

Subscribe and listen if you don't already!

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Daniel Denvir Digs Zohran Mamdani
The host of the socialist podcast “The Dig” says that Mamdani has the charisma of Barack Obama, with better politics. But is the left really ready for his mayorship?
www.newyorker.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
I second this Mamdani team endorsement for @danieldenvir.bsky.social and The Dig podcast from The New Yorker.
Excellent material
The Dig" is not mass entertainment. Episodes are long and unapologetically academic-for listeners who want to "jump into the deep end of left politics," as Denvir puts it. (The Guardian once called him "a socialist Terry Gross.") He has interviewed nearly every star intellectual on the left, as well as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (twice each). The politicians may or may not have time to listen, but their staffers certainly do. "Within my world-leftist organizers, lapsed academics, or political-campaign staff, all of which I am-the show is incredibly influential," Andrew Epstein, Mamdani's creative director, said.
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
New Dig ep w key Global South leaders from Philippines and Uganda, Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga. We trace neoliberalism’s defeat of Third Worldist project to Global South social movement/civil society networks that rose from ashes to take on neoliberal globalization. thedigradio.com/podcast/thir...
Third World Networks w/ Walden Bello and Jane Nalunga
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...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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abruzos.bsky.social
Combine this with what @melindacooper.bsky.social said recently in @thedigradio.bsky.social about a fiscal regime designed to suppress wage growth and inflate asset values through a combination of austerity measures and tax expenditures that operate as hidden public spending to benefit asset-owners.
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14d
from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
camera photo of a section of text reading: "The stakes of this difference can be seen by considering the financial takeaways of two people who are financially involved with Uber, one as a driver and one as a shareholder. If an Uber driver earns $100000 from driving for the platform for a year, the driver is subject to income taxes and payroll taxes with combined rates of 30 percent or more. If an Uber investor earns 100000 from growth in the value of the stock, the investor would be subject only to capital gains taxes, at a rate of 15 percent"
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
Two weeks ago Andrew Marantz accompanied me to the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rally in Wash Heights. He wrote a piece about @thedigradio.bsky.social and about how I see this huge opening for the left, need for coalition w libs, and the urgency of getting serious about building/wielding power. Link👇
October 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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eurtradejustice.bsky.social
What was the 'Battle in Seattle'? Who won? How did it shape the movement for trade justice globally and in Europe?

It was wonderful to have @danieldenvir.bsky.social join us recently to unpick these questions for the latest episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social podcast
Man sitting in a chair, wearing a light blue patterned shirt and holding a microphone, looking at notes Sitting man wearing a suit jacket, holding a microphone A seated woman and man, the man holding a microphone
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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pauladlerstein.bsky.social
So honored when @danieldenvir.bsky.social & the @eurtradejustice.bsky.social invited me to appear as a guest on a live episode of my fave politics/history podcast,
@thedigradio.bsky.social. Check out a fascinating convo on the global justice movement's history: thedigradio.com/podcast/anot....
Another World Was Possible
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,...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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toddwalker.bsky.social
Another great episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social which I belatedly just finished overcast.fm/+AAFPlxNNOwI
Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader — The Dig
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...
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October 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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theunread.bsky.social
If you’ve not yet listened, the first of two recent @thedigradio.bsky.social episodes with @melindacooper.bsky.social is a productive discussion of this. overcast.fm/+AAFPlzNpVPg
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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will-davies.bsky.social
At some point in Melinda Cooper's 5-hour @thedigradio.bsky.social marathon she explains Greenspanism as a macro-framework that is actively tolerant of asset bubbles, and when one pops the priority is to defend the monetary conditions for the next one to arise
pauljdavies.bsky.social Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 26d
Bubbles are good, actually…

on.ft.com/476jUkn ‘Of course it’s a bubble’: AI start-up valuations soar in investor frenzy
“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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motorres.bsky.social
a fun part of aziz rana’s recent-ish @thedigradio.bsky.social series was learning about du bois as a constitutional scholar + how social movements have varied in their (strategic, rhetorical) relationships to the founding texts
stephenwest.bsky.social Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 28d
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.
October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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miriammthsn.bsky.social
Again, got to be one of the best dig episodes I’ve ever listened to and the bar is *sky* high
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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johanpries.bsky.social
This is just crucial listening to make sense of the moment. In fact, its so good I tried to log into my old Patreon account to update my lapsed credit card and reset my The Dig subscription, failed, downloaded the app, reset the password and card no and updated all my old Patreon subscriptions...
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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guldfiske.bsky.social
Två år gammalt avsnitt av The Dig. Men var verkligen ögonöppnare för mig om Hamas historia och hur de realpolitiskt styrt Gaza.

I övrigt har jag knappt under två års tid läst eller hört något som förklarat Hamas som politiskt fenomen. Inte bara polemiserat.

thedigradio.com/podcast/hama...
Hamas w/ Tareq Baconi
Featuring Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. This is the context we need. And it is precisely what mainstream discourse mystifies, denies, and disavows.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
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 deficit...
www.thedigradio.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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skookses.bsky.social
Essential analysis of the, well for lack of a less cliched phrase, the "stage of global capitalism" we seem to have entered. Kind of a private assets police state.
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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journalspectre.bsky.social
Dan Denvir talking to Melinda Cooper for @thedigradio.bsky.social .

Good stuff
October 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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cgelderloos.bsky.social
Important two-part conversation at @thedigradio.bsky.social with Stuart Schrader and Alberto Toscano, everyone should listen to it.

thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...
Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
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...
thedigradio.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM