https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-699ur-16eca9e On France's permacrisis. [Patreon Exclusive] French sociologist Nathan Sperber talks to George and Alex about his new essay in the New Left Review, "The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural". We catch up with what has happened in France since…
Read More /442/ The Unique French Capacity for Disappointment ft. Nathan Sperber (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f55pv-16e9e37 On liberal takes on the end of the End of History. [Patreon Exclusive] We start by discussing Yasha Mounk's dismissal of an end to the End of History. Does he underestimate liberal democracy's inability to legitimise itself anymore? Is…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xrypu-16e1e72 On tradwives, influencers, and boys. [Patreon Exclusive] Amber is back on the pod, talking to Alex and George about her forthcoming piece on neo-traditionalism and women, in Damage issue 3, which will be on Mothers. We discuss: What are the…
Read More /440/ Dear Tradmother, Why Are You Sad? ft. Amber A’Lee Frost (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iq7y5-16da6fd On "eco-modernism". Ted Nordhaus, co-founder and executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, talks to Leigh and Alex the 20th anniversary of "The Death of Environmentalism" and the 10th anniversary of "The Ecomodernist Manifesto". We discuss: The fundamental philosophical differences…
Read More /439/ We Can Create Our Own Environment ft. Ted Nordhaus
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ee8f4-16d5f2c On the US culture wars, then and now. Historian Andrew Hartman, author of A War for the Soul of America, talks to Alex about how US Americans have been sorted into cultural camps over the past fifty years. We…
Read More /438/ You Are Being Enlisted into the Culture War ft. Andrew Hartman
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-95e5e-16d03ce On disinformation, misinformation and the popular will. Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo, joins us to talk about her recent pieces arguing that the climate movement's focus on disinformation is misguided.…
Read More /437/ Climate Change Is Not an Information Problem ft. Holly Buck (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jfvqx-16ca18d On corruption, charisma, populism & assassination in Slovakia. Slovak sociologist Dominik Zelinksy joins us to discuss Slovakia's positioning between East and West. We discuss: Why was Prime Minister Robert Fico a target of an assassination attempt? Whether Fico –…
Read More /436/ Slovakia’s Four World Directions ft. Dominik Zelinsky
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2q6ec-16c39e5 On the electricity grid and the institutions involved. [Episode originally released only to subscribers on 20 June 2024. Join us at patreon.com/bungacast] Fred Stafford, a STEM professional, a writer on energy and power, and an editor at Damage, talks to…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jauj5-16bfdc7 On Geoffrey Roberts’ 2013 biography of Field Marshal Zhukov. [Patreon Exclusive] Who was the Soviet general and architect of Soviet victory on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? We discuss: What does Zhukov’s life tell us about…
Read More /435/ Reading Club: Stalin’s General – Winning WWII (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4m638-16b9302 On the NGO-isation of the state. [Patreon Exclusive] Researchers and writers Matthew Thompson and Jonny Gordon-Farleigh join us to discuss their recent Damage article with George Hoare. Civil society was once occupied by popular forces that could function as a bulwark…
Read More /434/ Bodiless Bodies ft. Matthew Thompson & Jonny Gordon-Farleigh (sample)
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