https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5f7yv-18fdc5c On Iran and its Axis of Resistance. Historian Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi talks to Alex about the leadup and aftermath of the so-called "12-Day War between Iran and Israel and the US. Hamas and Hezbollah have been humbled, Assad is gone…
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/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vp7yq-18f1437 On technology, transhumanism, and progress. James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips. What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL? Why…
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/496/ Insane-Washing the War (Which Did Not Take Place)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-psw7t-18f0815 On the war on Iran that wasn't (yet). Alex and George review the past month in the world and on Bungacast: The crazy will-they-won't-they of a potential US war on Iran The ex post facto justifications on all sides…
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/495/ Heritage America vs the World? ft. James Pogue
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xf52-18e5e85 On land conflicts, MAGA , and the frontier. Journalist James Pogue talks to George and Alex about his book Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West. The book concerns the events surrounding the 2016 armed occupation of the Oregon…
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/494/ National Democracy or Globalist War ft. Wolfgang Streeck
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s46r8-18dcd11 On the dual crisis of the world. Wolfgang Streeck, renowned economic sociologist, is back on to talk to us about the crisis of capitalist growth and of democracy. We focus on the solutions proposed in his brilliant new book,…
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/492/ The Armed Wing of the Deplatforming Movement ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hbari-18d0b89 On the right to protest. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talks to Alex H and George about restrictions on speech and protest at US universities and beyond – particularly with regard to Palestine…
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/491/ Squeezed Between Two Empires ft. Maciej Szlinder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q5z8s-18c733e On Poland's election, its history, its self-conception. Philosopher Maciej Szlinder joins us to talk about Polish politics, society and history. Maciej is a member of the general council of the left-wing political party Razem ("Together"), as well as the…
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/490/ Reading Club: Who Is Anti-Nationalist?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4hszi-18c73e7 On the former Yugoslavia and the ethnography of anti-nationalists. [For the full episode, subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast] [Reading Club LIVE: Sat 14 June, 9am LA, 12am NY, 5pm London, 6pm Berlin] In the third installment of this block on inter/nationalism in…
/489/ Boomer Death Rattle
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mer2v-18c3304 On the end of the (very) long 1960s. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing Editor Lee Jones joins Alex and George to talk through the themes and stories of the month, including MAGA's war on universities, right-populists…
/487/ Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? ft. Christopher Lasch’s Angry Ghost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pkgf3-18b2bc4 On what is next for 'PMC theory' [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] The social media avatar known as Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost joins us to unpick the conjuncture: as the Trump administration makes cuts and seeks to…
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