Daniel Denvir




I’m the host of The Dig podcast (Jacobin) and the author of All-American Nativism (Verso Books)

I’m a former staff writer at Salon and the Philadelphia City Paper, former writer in residence at The Appeal, and former contributing writer at the Atlantic’s CityLab.

My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Vox, Jacobin, The Guardian's Comment Is Free, Al Jazeera America, VICE, and The New Republic.

Feel free to get in touch on Twitter or Email.


PRESS

The New Yorker: “Daniel Denvir Digs Zohran Mamdani“

The Guardian: “His socialist podcast became a surprise hit. Now he’s an uncommitted Democratic delegate”

The Nation: “Is The Dig the Most Important Podcast on the Left?” 

The Providence Journal: “Dan Denvir fights RI landlords, deplorable conditions, and lead paint”

Convergence Mag: “The State of Left Ideological Infrastructure, with Johanna Bozuwa, Corinne Blalock, and Daniel Denvir“

Daniel Denvir




I’m the host of The Dig podcast (Jacobin) and the author of All-American Nativism (Verso Books)

I’m a former staff writer at Salon and the Philadelphia City Paper, former writer in residence at The Appeal, and former contributing writer at the Atlantic’s CityLab.

My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Vox, Jacobin, The Guardian's Comment Is Free, Al Jazeera America, VICE, and The New Republic.

Feel free to get in touch on Twitter or Email.

Featured Articles




The Nation, April 2026

Hasan Piker Threatens the Establishment. That’s Why They Want to Destroy Him.


Over the past few weeks, Democratic establishment figures and the Israel lobby have come together to denounce mega-streamer Hasan Pike and to demand that left-wing Democrats shun his extremely popular platform. Their charge is that he’s an antisemite. The reality, of course, is that Piker is not an antisemite. But he is a trenchant critic of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people, of US warmongering, and of a Democratic establishment that supports both. What’s more, he’s an unmatched online warrior against MAGA and an American far right that is increasingly open about its fascism and antisemitism.
n+1, September 2024

Do Border

Immigration politics and the nativist cycle

“If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.” These were the words not of Donald Trump, but of President Joe Biden, speaking in January in support of a bipartisan immigration deal then being negotiated in the Senate. As often happens, Biden’s impolitic pronouncement captured the larger dynamics at play. The Democrats are defending themselves against Republican attacks on immigration by going on offense — but for the most part, they’re doing so on Republican terms.



n+1, April 2018

ZOMBIE LIBERALISM


A plea for liberal nationalism ignores what it has looked like in practice

In February, US Citizenship and Immigration Services deleted language from its mission statement that described the country as a “nation of immigrants.” It was yet another sign that a belief pervasive in the Trump White House—that arrivals from Latin America, Asia and Africa posed a threat to an American identity truly rooted in European culture—was spreading to other institutions of government. Last year, Trump invoked Blut-und-Boden nationalism before an audience in Warsaw. “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” Trump said.

Published Works



Slate, May 2023
n+1, December 2021 
Jacobin, February 2020
New York Times, February 2019
International Viewpoint, July 2018
The Nation, September 2014 
The Nation, October 2008