https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rgct3-18a875a On Romania's annulled election – and the repeat. Academic and housing activist Enikő Vincze talks to Alex about why December 2024's election result was annulled, and how Romanian politics is following the script of European politics: lawfare, misinformation, techno-populism,…
Read More /486/ Romania Is Following the Script ft. Enikő Vincze
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ifhb7-1898beb On the promise of videos games. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Pawel Kaczmarski – a literary critic who teaches modern and contemporary Polish literature at the University of Wrocław – talks to George and Alex about his…
Read More /485/ Can Games Teach Us Agency? ft. Pawel Kaczmarski
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dapej-1893ace On the charges against France's Marine Le Pen. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Alex and George discuss some main stories from the past month. After the death of Pope Francis, what's behind left-wing sympathy for the late…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9jccy-189321c On the mass-production of loyalty. *** We are exceptionally making this episode of the Reading Club freely available. See the full syllabus here: 2024/25 Reading Club. If you'd like to join, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership. *** The second reading in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2qgun-1888e68 On Filipino politics and geopolitics. Renowned public intellectual Walden Bello talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about his recently published memoirs, former president Rodrigo Duterte's arrest, warring political dynasties and more. What's behind Duterte's arrest? Is it…
Read More /482/ The Philippines’ Dynasty & Duterte’s Arrest ft. Walden Bello
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rxdcm-187ed7a On Trump's government, his motives and his modus operandi. Political theorist Corey Robin talks to Alex H and contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch about Trump II from a domestic perspective. We look at the three main things…
Read More /481/ Everything is Plausible: Oligarchy – or Worse ft. Corey Robin
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-avsaq-187dea3 On Perry Anderson's "Internationalism: A Breviary". [For the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] We kick off the second block/theme of the 2024/25 Reading Club on Nations & Internationalism in the 21st Century by looking at a 2002 essay which…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7y94v-18756cb On Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs and the end of globalisation. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Lee Jones talks to Alex about the tariffs, as they try to reconstruct the Trump admin's thinking, and consider avenues and…
Read More /479/ El Tarifazo: Trump’s Tariff Thwack ft. Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nzqgj-1869414 On revolution, epic poetry, John Milton, and freedom. George and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch talk to Orlando Reade, who teaches English at Northeastern University London. We discuss Orlando’s new book What In Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of…
Read More /478/ Should You Listen to Satan? ft. Orlando Reade
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x6fpv-1864bb3 On Erdogan's World and the revolt against it. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Historian Djene Bajalan joins George and Alex to review the past month – ceasefires in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, winning and losing…
Read More /477/ Talking Turkey in the Group Chat ft. Djene Bajalan
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