https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3xgpf-1232ce8 [Patreon Exclusive] On the economic drivers and political choices of inflation. In the absence of workers demanding higher wages, where is inflation coming from? Is there more to it than pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and the Ukraine…
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Excerpt: /264/ Aufhebonus Bonus
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cbpn6-122e057 [Patreon Exclusive] On your comments & criticisms. We tackle ideological realignments over the use of history; conspiracy theorising; a game-show called The Last True Marxist; whether we've had any progress over the last 50 years; and much more.
/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3h65d-122149a On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars. We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion going on, where…
Excerpt: /261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fwwzm-1217524 [Patreon Exclusive] We analyse the French presidential election results, the country's geographical and class divides, and what a second term for Macron means for the EU. Three Articles: Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview…
Excerpt: /260/ Reading Club: Fear II – Furedi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wzs9c-12137f8 [Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works. Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fear. To join a local Reading Club where you…
/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wgbss-120e7ad On Marxism & the Left. We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left. Who or what is "the Left" today – merely the left wing of Capital?…
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/257/ How to Boil a Frog (2) ft. Chris Bickerton
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fr7s9-1205b58 The second part of our double ep on France's presidential election. Ahead of the second round, we discuss how likely a Le Pen victory could be and the effect of Zemmour’s candidacy – which appears to have made her…
/256/ How to Boil a Frog (1) ft. Charles Devellennes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xbtf8-120364e On France's presidential elections. We talk to Charles Devellennes to digest the first round, which saw centre-right Macron and far-right Le Pen come out on top, with leftist Mélenchon missing out. How similar are Macron and Le Pen's…
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Excerpt: /255/ Reading Club: Fear I – Robin
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7xn2m-11fd5b1 [Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Corey Robin's Fear: The History of a Political Idea. This is March's Reading Club, the third in the Emergency Politics section of the 2022 Syllabus.
/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6qud8-11f84ff [Patreon Exclusive] On US proxy wars, Russia's elite, Ukrainian neutrality. 'Three Articles' aims to provide serious political discussion on current affairs that we feel is lacking elsewhere, drawing out the logical conclusions of the three pieces' arguments.…
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