https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6v6ia-14db517 On Argentina's historic election. Historian of populism and anti-populism Ernesto Seman tells us what is happening in Argentina amidst severe economic crisis. The radical libertarian madman Javier Milei failed to win, and a second-round runoff will be needed,…
Read More /371/ The Milei Massacre Didn’t Happen ft. Ernesto Seman
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cudxe-14d794e On violence and the lack of political resolution. Regular guest Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss why the Israel/Palestine conflict is so intractable – and why it draws so much attention. Alex then explains why, lamentably, there is…
Read More /370/ Dead Ends in Israel & Palestine ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-suitt-14d355c On the war on disinformation and the war in Gaza. Jacob Siegel, senior editor at Tablet, joins us to talk about Hamas's attack on Israel and Israel's assault on Gaza. We also discuss how the US crusade against…
Read More /369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gnpfv-14c915b On sovereign debt and taking back control. The leading candidate in Argentina's election this month wants to avoid defaulting on the country's debt at all costs. But back in 2001, after a mass revolt, Argentina reneged on its…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z2max-14c7ee4 On polycrisis. [Patreon Tier II and III Exclusive - subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We reflect back on Jurgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis as a whole, having gone through it section by section in previous episodes, before exploring what the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2ye2r-14be329 On the end of politics. Is the craziness of the past years, since 2016, ebbing away? Is the establishment back in charge? Journalist Ryan Zickgraf joins us to argue that, yes, the period of 'hyperpolitics' has passed. …
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pfdn4-14b41a1 On US politics being stuck. [This was originally a subscriber exclusive. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast] We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that…
Read More UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6845s-14b3eb1 On satire of the bourgeoisie. [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast] We discuss Luis Buñuel's "deranged masterpiece" from 1972, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and debate the social ritual of dinner, and why the guests in…
Read More Excerpt: /364/ The Eternal Sunshine of the Bourgeoisie
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-btjba-14ac2da On the radical right in the global periphery. [This was originally a Patreon Exclusive] Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or…
Read More UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ui776-14a1bbd On the politics of consultancy [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up @ patreon.com/bungacast] The past 40 years have seen a whole range of things the state used to do itself outsourced to third parties. Now there is a turn…
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