https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yrmtr-1750ac7 On the End of History and Europe. [For full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] LSE professor Mike Wilkinson talks to Phil and Alex about how the history of European integration fits with constitutional theories and ideas of sovereignty. We discuss: …
Read More /454/ The Last Man at the Euro Tango ft. Michael Wilkinson
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-anr8b-1743527 On the maelstrom of the metropolis. [Full episode only available to subscribers. Join at patreon.com/bungacast] We kick of the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pxa8x-173e9f3 On the military decline of the American empire. [Patreon Exclusive] The Swedish writer Malcom Kyeyune talks to Phil about what happens to the evil empire when the stormtroopers can’t shoot straight and the empire isn’t producing enough star destroyers. They…
Read More /452/ Stormtroopers Can’t Shoot Straight ft. Malcom Kyeyune
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rnfqn-1738ce6 On pro-family politics, and the US election and labour. [Patreon Exclusive - in association with Damage magazine] Dustin Guastella talks to Phil and Alex about what the election of Trump will mean for US labour organisations. We then move on…
Read More /451/ Capitalism Needs No Help Abolishing Families ft. Dustin Guastella
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wqk9r-1733706 On Trump's return and the end of the End of History (still!) Historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to extract the true meaning of the US election. We discuss: How Trump's victory explodes so many Democrat assumptions…
Read More /450/ The World-Soul Rides a Golden Escalator ft. Matt Karp
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-usyx5-172d22a On your questions, comments, criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] It's our letter to the episode show where we have a chance to answer you, the listener. We discuss: Has Bungacast gone eco-austerian? Are Marx and Freud in conflict? Is abortion about…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q87en-1727b7c On Georgia's pivotal elections and its post-Soviet history. [Full episode only for patrons] Hans Gutbrod, who has been working in the Caucasus region since 1999 and now teaches at Ilia State University in Tblisi, talks to Alex about Georgia's…
Read More /448/ Foreign Agents, Quiet Oligarchs & Neverending History ft. Hans Gutbrod
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g8x7d-1720e7e On the US election, messaging and learning stupid lessons. [Full episode only at Patreon] We welcome Amber A'Lee Frost (California via Indiana and New York) and Ryan Zickgraf (Pennsylvania via Illinois and Georgia) to preview the US election. We…
Read More /447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber A’Lee Frost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-64zv6-1715111 On egg-freezing, 'having it all', and neoliberal liberty. [Patreon Exclusive] We welcome Damage editor and practicing psychologist Amber Trotter on to talk about "Frozen Freedom", Amber's piece on artificial reproductive technology and different kinds of freedom. Alex and George ask…
Read More /446/ The Techno-Fantasy of Perfect Freedom ft. Amber Trotter
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p44x3-170fe2e On the left-wing case for freedom. Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch is back on to talk about how the Democrats are approaching the US presidential election. Alex talks us through an influential and widely-read article that he wrote in 2020…
Read More /445/ How I Hacked the US Election ft. Alex Gourevitch
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