https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x9tf4-12dbc87 On the meaning of Gorbachev. [Patreon Exclusive] Mikhail Gorbachev continues to be lauded in Western circles for overseeing the collapse of the Soviet Union without much bloodshed. But given the historic societal disaster that followed, is this…
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/292/ Bungazão 2022: Unrealistic Pragmatism, ft. Unbridled Possibility Collective
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xhii-12d6cf0 On Brazil's containment of the crisis. We talk to members of the Unbridled Possibility Collective (Fabio Luis B. Santos | Thais Pavez | Daniel Cunha) about their intervention, trying to look beyond this week's election in Brazil. What does…
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/291/ The Right Timeline ft. Mattia Salvia
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-29xwb-12d5f4b On the Brothers of Italy. We talk to Mattia Salvia, former Rolling Stone Italia politics editor and author of Interregno, about Italy's election last weekend in the context of a Europe in crisis. The big question to start: is…
/290/ Cassoulet of Disruption ft. Nathan Sperber
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sau29-12d3d3e On La Macronie, or Macronistan Is France in perma-crisis? We talk to Nathan Sperber, independent researcher on political economy based in Paris and the author of a recent piece on Macronistan in American Affairs. Does Macron evince a…
Excerpt: /289/ Aufhebonus Bonus (September)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s7acq-12cc25c On your questions and criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We discuss the Chinese Dream, speculation and horizontal politics, foreign fighters and spies, Dune, and killing Phil.
Excerpt: /288/ Feudal Limpets (Bunga Goes Royal)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p775q-12c12b9 [Patreon Exclusive] On the death of Queen Elizabeth, a 20th century figure To our own surprise, we are doing an episode on the Queen of England. How will her death impact the UK when she was basically…
/286/ What Was Communism? ft. Branko Milanovic
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pgv57-12b743a On Communism's historic role. We talk to renowned Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic about growing up in Yugoslavia and how, in much of the world, History never ended. We then dedicate much of the episode to discussing Branko's claim…
/284/ Bungazão 2022 ft. Alcysio Canette
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-23mt5-12b6eff On Brazil's elections and the military. A month away from the first round showdown between former president Lula and current president Jair Bolsonaro, lawyer, podcaster and communist Alcysio Canette joins us to look at the features that have…
Excerpt: /283/ Reading Club: Trust & Mistrust
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q4pqh-12b0d6e On Anthony Giddens' The Consequences of Modernity (ch.3) [Patreon Tier 2&3 Exclusive] In the second episode of the Cynical Ideology section of the 2022 Reading Club, we look at what trust is and why it has declined so precipitously…
Bunga Holiday
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yn8cx-12aeac7 Just a short announcement about what's coming up, while we're off on summer holidays. Subscribe to the podcast to support us and get two new, original, paywalled episodes a month ($5/mo). For $10/mo you also get access to the…
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