https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n46yy-1a99d69 On the brave new world we have entered. Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to draw out some firm consequences, beyond the immediate situtation.…
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/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v5stx-1a90e8a On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What is queer theory and why should it be abolished?…
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/541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rpw7b-1a7ddc5 On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains. Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks to Alex and George about organising workers…
/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tvsu7-1a72d18 On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose contents have been hollowed out. What is…
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/539/ Reading Club: Where’s Our Flying Cars?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zxter-1a6d6b7 On the slowing rate of technological progress. Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 essay, Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit. This builds on two of this year's themes:…
/538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9s5h-1a67eb8 On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and why we should ask "what…
/537/ Letters to the Editors: Feb 2026
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eeibs-1a59ace We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month or so. Key issues this month are: What are the wrongs of the postmodern right – aand left? Will the civilisational paradigm become hegemonic? Is Trump's foreign…
/536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u9eq9-1a5468d On anti-racism, communism, and philosophy. Alex Gourevitch talks to political philosopher Paul Gomberg about his original and deep Marxist arguments for what makes racism wrong, why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism, and the limits of many contemporary…
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/535/ Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Conservatism ft. Matt McManus
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cagn2-1a45b66 On postmodern conservatives. Matt McManus talks to Alex and George about a Right increasingly shaped by the parameters of postmodern culture – and his Damage article on this. Who are the key thinkers of postmodern conservatism? Does truth matter anymore?…
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/534/ Is There a Doctrine Called Donroe? ft. Juan David Rojas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-48fwd-1a3eece On Trump and Rubio, Venezuela and Cuba. Writer Juan David Rojas talks to Alex and Lee about the abduction of Maduro, what next for Venezuela, and Trump's "hemispheric" foreign policy. What is the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America?…
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