https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qtwe9-153798c On the missed opportunity of the 2010s. [Patreon Exclusive] Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins us to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss: Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p5zwa-151a9ee On NATO expansion and the end of neutrality Previously a Patreon Exclusive. For more like this, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Lily Lynch is back on the pod to talk about Northern and Eastern Europe and growing hawkishness. We…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9w7u6-1536e4d FROM THE VAULT: ALEX'S PICK (2)On The Economist and the contradictions of global liberalism. Alexander Zevin joins us to discuss his work on the 176 year history of the magazine that has accompanied liberalism's global expansion. Has it just reflected…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-77zup-1536e48 FROM THE VAULT: ALEX'S PICK (I) In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink's sofa. It's a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order.…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kz3yg-1536e3c FROM THE VAULT: GEORGE'S PICK (2) On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. We talk to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neoliberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, but…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-emrrv-1536e35 FROM THE VAULT: GEORGE'S PICK (1) On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway and end up…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-22qb4-1536e30 FROM THE VAULT: PHIL'S PICK (2)The third in our Neoliberal Breakdown series. In which we discuss the late Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, 10 years on. Does his analysis still hold? The mood music of the time - the age of…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4rdxm-1536e25 FROM THE VAULT: PHIL'S PICK (1)On British decline.Much ink has been spilled over the Britain’s fate since the end of its empire. Could it be that decline has been overstated? And what will happen to Britain as it leaves…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eq8m2-152c002 On contemporary art. Critic and editor at Art Review, JJ Charlesworth, joins us to talk about why so much contemporary art is bad. We discuss: Why is art no longer about beauty? Are we stuck between art that…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vvi8s-1521c2b On Ridley Scott's Napoleon. [Patreon Exclusive] We couldn't avoid discussing the new biopic about the "world soul" himself, Napoleon Bonaparte. The film isn't great, but what can we learn from it? And how does it sit in…
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