https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xh85-eb8c54 On modernism and its end. We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation. We…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uvzqr-ea91e2 This is an excerpt. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On class. Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more up-to-date identities linking…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jxg8p-e660ba On political decline and realignment. The editor of American Affairs joins us to discuss the decay of conservatism and we ask whether this decay doesn't apply to other parts of the political spectrum too. Is today's 'class struggle' really just…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iphrs-e9163f This episode is for patrons only. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss a chapter taken from James Heartfield's "The 'Death of the Subject' Explained", which was recently republished in Damage Magazine as The New Social Movements Against the Old…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kgei3-e8bd28 The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this semi-regular slot, we respond to your comments and criticisms received over the past month or so. Discussion features whether we're right about the "end of the End…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2p86r-e5ec4b On US foreign policy. Following on from our episode on the political-economy of dollar hegemony (no. 139), we turn to look at how the dollar underpins American empire. Is 'permawar' a product of structural factors, rather than merely the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-evwif-e6db1b On Lebanon's crisis. We call up Rima Majed in Beirut to talk us through the aftermath of the enormous explosion and ensuing protests. How has Lebanon's history since the civil war created such a profound, multi-layered crisis? We cover…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mp9zw-e57fc7 The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this latest Three Articles, we discuss the durability or otherwise of right-populism in the UK, US and Brazil. Reading: Conservatives’ grip on ‘red wall’ holding firm, Sebastian Payne,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v4pch-e588a3 On dollar hegemony. Dutch disease has long been seen as the curse of resource-rich economies in which a currency appreciates and jobs are lost overseas. But what if the greenback is having the same effects on the US economy,…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rqi5w-e4672f The episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The protests in the US against police violence - and their globalisation - prompts us to discuss radical proposals for what to do about the police. We look at…
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