Come celebrate the launch of the book with us in Central London on 24 July. We'll be in the upstairs room of the Marquis Cornwallis pub from 3pm. Register at Eventbrite
Alex__1789
Writer & Researcher | Comms Consultant & Analyst
Excerpt: /199/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5ncsp-106c250 We take your questions, comments & criticisms. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On this Aufhebonus Bonus, we discuss whether unions are still capable of fighting for their members; the Arab-Israeli conflict at…
/198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y7kw9-106a1bb On secularism, nationalism and identity politics. India is held up as a model developing country: liberal, democratic, multicultural. Renowned Indian writer and activist Achin Vanaik joins us to examine how India has turned away from universalism and secularism. How…
RE-RELEASE: /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hqjbz-1064384 In the lead-up to our 200th episode later this month, we're exceptionally re-releasing our 100th episode special this week. On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question:…
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Excerpt: /197/ Reading Club: The Breakaway
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f7g74-105f9a9 We discuss the third and final in the series of Perry Anderson essays on the EU in the London Review of Books, "The Breakaway", and wonder if the EU can - despite its crises - just carry on indefinitely.…
Excerpt: /196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tz4ai-1051112 On atrocity and sovereignty. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The disasters of Iraq, Libya, Syria and beyond are there for all to see. Why hasn't an emphasis on Human Rights led to fewer atrocities?…
/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z6a2j-1050273 On China, economic reform, and the future. While the USSR famously succumbed to destructive neoliberal "shock therapy", China managed to avoid it. How and why? Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, tells us about China's opting for…
TEOTEOH on The Jacobin Show
Alex was on The Jacobin Show to talk about our book, The End of the End of History. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOl1Yp5a_9E
Brazilianization
Alex has an essay in American Affairs, arguing that decline and crisis in core capitalist countries is best understood a Brazilianization: not just inequality and oligarchy, but cynicism, anti-politics, indeterminacy, and the End of History - these are all facets…
Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k89bm-10464bd On global insurrection and identity politics. This episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss an essay by the ultra-left collective 'Endnotes' that deals with the same political questions as we do, but comes up with…
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