https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ec2tp-1a36d83 On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context. What is the…
Read More /532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3j7t9-1a3144c On ICE, Minneapolis – and your questions & comments. Contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf is back from Minnesota and tells us what is happening on the ground. We also discuss: If this was Trump picking a fight, why Minnesota? Do the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ktakh-1a28e9c On the social turn in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts Christie and Ricky talk to Alex and George about their article in issue #5 of Damage, on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through therapy. What is the 'social turn' and is…
Read More /530/ Urgent and Immediate and Impossible ft. Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ymhnq-1a2339f On Southeast Asia's scam compounds. Mark Bo, organised-crime researcher and co-author of Scam, talks to Alex and Lee about his book, his experiences and why this fusion of gangsterism and speculation has taken root in the contemporary economy. What…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n3vgs-1a17db1 On the making of independent India – and its lessons. Assistant professor of politics at The New School, Sandipto Dasgupta, talks to contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about this new book, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony. Why…
Read More /528/ The Heroic Bourgeoisie in the Democratic Post-Colony ft. Sandipto Dasgupta
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c7c74-19efade On the collective subject at the end of the End of History. Panagiotis Sotiris, Historical Materialism editorial board member and assistant professor at the University of the Aegean, talks to Alex and Lee about class and the "national-popular". Is…
Read More /527/ Exit the Minoritarian ft. Panagiotis Sotiris
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n6pn9-19ee189 On US derangement on screen. The OG Bunga boys get togther for the annual end-of-year film episode. We discuss Ari Aster's Eddington, as well as a bit of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia:…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-69vev-19e59ea On homoploutia and national market liberalism. Branko Milanovic, Research Professor at City University of New York, talks to Phil and Alex about his most recent book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World. What unites…
Read More /525/ Neoliberalism in One Country? ft. Branko Milanovic
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wbrie-19db411 On overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority. Amber Trotter, practicing psychologist and an editor at Damage magazine, and George Hoare tell Alex about their co-written article in the print issue of Damage on "the pre-political". What is driving the…
Read More /524/ You’ve Been Diagnosed with Subjective Problems ft. Amber Trotter
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v8euf-19d6108 On post-woke strategies. Ryan Z is back on, talking to Alex and George about the US Democrats' attempt to respond to Trump/MAGA. In association with Damage magazine. Can the Democrats escape the shadow of woke? Is Big Woke dying?…
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