https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9bpj-d0594d On The Economist and the contradictions of global liberalism. Alexander Zevin joins us to discuss his work on the 176 year history of the magazine that has accompanied liberalism's global expansion. Has it just reflected the world or has it…
Read More /104/ The Aristocracy of Finance ft. Alexander Zevin
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vneh7-cf6394 This episode is for Patrons only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On forecasts for the next decade. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack -…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vixyn-b90dd2 On drugs and mental health. In part two, we chat about recreational drugs and mental states in a Hollywood bar with friends of the podcast, Amber A'Lee Frost and Alex Gendler. But mostly, we delve deeper into capitalism and…
Read More /77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2 [UNLOCKED]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4g52r-cb8a14 On how Labour lost. Was it Brexit that did for Labour? In what sense? What now for the British Left - and for democracy? Running order: 02:40 Opening chat 05:15 The electoral map, the generational divide 21:46 Class 33:52…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
Read More /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8wk4f-c9cc44 UK general election preview. Is is really the Brexit election, if Labour doesn't want it to be? We survey the parties' positions, and promises, and ask some big what ifs. Could there be a major realignment in the offing?…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c62c9-c93718 On working class pain and politics. We talk to Jennifer Silva about her most recent book, and working class Americans' experience of and perspectives on pain. We discuss racial, gender and class identities and sense of relative losses and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9sxga-c84129 On algorithms and politics. Can we "blame the media" today for political outcomes? Who's responsible for The Discourse in a fragmented landscape? It seems like there's increasing polarisation today, driven by social media 'filter bubbles'. Are they real? Who's…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-68vzv-c74c0e This is a sample. Go to Patreon for the full episode. On Bolivia, Macron, Randian Chile. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack - we…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…
Read More /95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
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