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 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 author of All-American Nativism (forthcoming from Verso), Visiting Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute, a writer in residence at The Appeal, and the host of The Dig podcast on Jacobin Radio.

I’m a former staff writer at Salon and the Philadelphia City Paper, 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




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.




Philadelphia Magazine, June 2023

LaFaye Gaskins, Whose Conviction Was the Subject of a Philly Mag Investigation, Freed From Prison


I visited Philly last week to spend time with LaFaye Gaskins, whose murder conviction I investigated for this magazine in 2016. Gaskins, 54, walked out of prison on the morning of Friday, June 9th, after spending 34 years behind bars on a life sentence for a murder there was no evidence he had committed.

“It makes me feel like I’m a tourist coming to a city that I don’t know,” he told me. “And I’m just walking around trying to figure everything out. That’s how I feel. Even when I went to my old neighborhood, it’s totally different.”




The New York Times, February 2019

THE CASE AGAINST ‘BORDER SECURITY’


Voters want more open borders, not a ‘smart wall.’ Democrats should listen.

The last government shutdown ended because Democrats stood firm against President Trump’s border wall. But funding will soon run out again, talks between Democrats and Republicans are in crisis, and Mr. Trump remains committed: “The Wall will get built one way or the other!” he tweeted on Saturday.

The Senate’s minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has made it clear that Mr. Trump won’t get his way: “Democrats are against the wall.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has admirably enforced party discipline, has called the wall “immoral.”


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