The Dig

Daniel Denvir

daniel.denvir@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

A political history and economics interview podcast featuring extended conversations with academics, researchers, journalists, and other subject-matter experts, often focused on international politics and the history of the left. Agencies could credibly pitch political scholars, historians, economists, regional specialists, and authors with substantial research or field expertise; booking difficulty is medium because specialist credibility matters more than mainstream celebrity.

Metrics

Episodes: 547

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

daniel.denvir@gmail.com

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Host

Daniel Denvir - Political journalist, author, and host of Jacobin's The Dig podcast.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Academic, research, journalistic, or professional expertise in politics, history, economics, socialism, or regional affairs, with particular value placed on deep subject knowledge and firsthand regional expertise.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or substantial research, University or research-institution affiliation, Specialized fieldwork or regional expertise, Published political or historical analysis

Recent Guest Discussions

Iqra Anugrah - The 1998 Transition, The Indonesian Left, And The Legacy Of The New Order.

Made Supriatma - Suharto's Fall, Oligarchy, Democratization, And Conflicts In West Papua, East Timor, And Aceh.

Rianne Subijanto - Suharto's Fall, The New Order Dictatorship, Oligarchy, And Political Change In Indonesia.

Farabi Fakih - The 1965 Mass Killings, Suharto's Coup, And The Political Foundations Of The New Order.

Made Supriatma - The 1965 Mass Killings, Military Rule, Authoritarianism, And Oligarchy In Indonesia.

Recent Topics

Politics, History, Economics, Socialism, Indonesia

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Dig
:

Nusantara Ep. 7 – Suharto’s Fall

July 14, 2026

The seventh episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This penultimate installment analyses the 1998 fall of Suharto and his New Order dictatorship. Basic political freedoms were established but the transition to democracy never included a transition away from oligarchy. And it happened in the absence of a mass organized left—a left that had been destroyed through the m...

Nusantara Ep. 6 – Mass Killing, New Order

July 01, 2026

The sixth episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This installment details Suharto’s right-wing military coup and the horrific political crime that accompanied it: the US-backed mass murder of Indonesian communists. The military’s mass slaughter inaugurated Suharto’s oligarchic, authoritarian, and corrupt New Order regime—a regime that would endure for three decades a...

Nusantara Ep. 5 – Armed Conflicts, Guided Democracy

June 13, 2026

The fifth episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This installment traces the armed conflicts—civil wars and then confrontations with the Dutch and British—that propelled Indonesia into Sukarno’s authoritarian Guided Democracy system and cascading economic crisis. Both the military and the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) became increasingly powerful forces on the e...

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