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…
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/482/ The Philippines’ Dynasty & Duterte’s Arrest ft. Walden Bello
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…
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/481/ Everything is Plausible: Oligarchy – or Worse ft. Corey Robin
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…
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/480/ Reading Club: 21st Century Internationalism
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…
/479/ El Tarifazo: Trump’s Tariff Thwack ft. Lee Jones
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…
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/478/ Should You Listen to Satan? ft. Orlando Reade
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…
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/477/ Talking Turkey in the Group Chat ft. Djene Bajalan
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…
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/476/ Freedom against the New Nihilism ft. Jensen Suther
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xg3bm-185ee41 On critical theory and autonomy. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Jensen Suther, a junior fellow at Harvard working in philosophy and literature, talks to Alex H and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about art, culture, and socialism. He…
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/475/ Class Power: Professionals, Petits and Proles ft. Dan Evans
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pnaws-1845f7c On class formation, fragmentation, pessimism and optimism. George and contributing editor Leigh Phillips talk to Dan Evans, a writer and academic based in South Wales. We discuss his piece in the New Socialist, ‘Is the Working Class Back?’ and themes…
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/474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-get3e-18334d8 On cities and the politics of development. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo…
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