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…
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/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…
/281/ Foreign Fighters, Left & Right (I) ft. Stefan Bertram-Lee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-j4pj7-129d61d On Rojava and Ukraine.We talk to Stefan Bertram-Lee, former volunteer fighter for the the YPG in Rojava, about whom a Hollywood movie is being made. We ask him about the type of person who volunteers, and how this compares…
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Excerpt: /280/ Three Articles: Liberal Nationalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t468r-12938f2 [Patreon Exclusive] With European liberals waving Ukraine flags, how might the war and escalating geopolitical tensions between major power be prompting a return to nationalism and patriotism? Is it just a means for elites to extract sacrifices from the…
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