https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qjicr-17be94d On Trump's foreign policy, the 2nd time round. Historian and podcaster Daniel Bessner joins Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Lee Jones to ask how this era of rot and decay will proceed under Trump II, from Ukraine to China and…
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/463/ Reading Club: Place 3 – Sennett
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vywtd-17ae1be On The Fall of Public Man. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we discuss chapter 13, "Community becomes…
/462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zam22-17a00c1 On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president's life and legacy. What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter,…
/461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rdea3-1793bd7 On radical conservatism and global order. Professor Michael C. Williams talks to George and Alex about his co-authored World of the Right and how the radical right has gone global. We discuss: Does academia takes the Right as seriously…
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/460/ The Profane Appeal of Sacred Authority
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ywa5f-177fd24 On Conclave. In our final episode of the year, we debate Edgar Berger's new film about a Papal election, featuring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as Cardinals and Isabella Rossellini as a nun. Is the film about an alien,…
/459/ Reading Club: Place 2 – Augé
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r6aa9-177c477 On Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity [For access, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The Future of Place, asking, is politics possible without a sense of place. We discuss Marc Augé's…
/458/ The Society of Pure Vibe ft. Anna Kornbluh
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ivpg4-1773e44 On immediacy, representation, and anti-politics. Anna Kornbluh, professor of English and author of Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism talks to Alex about the cultural, political, and economic changes she refers to as 'immediacy'. We discuss: Is…
/457/ AufheBonus Bonus – December 2024
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i8kuf-176b8a5 On your questions, comments & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We're back with a final letters to the editor episode of 2024 in which we discuss: the universalisation of 'anti-fascism' as a kind of politics whether there are any actual 'family…
/456/ All Chips on Taiwan ft. James Lin
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8urxc-1765f54 On Taiwan, semiconductors, and war. [Full episode for subscribers only] James Lin, Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle, talks to Phil about Taiwanese politics and the country's place in the world, in terms…
/455/ Family Trouble (Damage Issue 3 launch) ft. Catherine Liu & Dustin Guastella
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8haa2-175af43 On Mothers and the institution of the family. We're happy to bring you the recording of the launch event for the third issue of Damage magazine, with whom we're partnered. George and Alex were present for the event as part…
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