https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s9s5h-1a67eb8 On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, and why we should ask "what…
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/537/ Letters to the Editors: Feb 2026
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eeibs-1a59ace We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month or so. Key issues this month are: What are the wrongs of the postmodern right – aand left? Will the civilisational paradigm become hegemonic? Is Trump's foreign…
/536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u9eq9-1a5468d On anti-racism, communism, and philosophy. Alex Gourevitch talks to political philosopher Paul Gomberg about his original and deep Marxist arguments for what makes racism wrong, why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism, and the limits of many contemporary…
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/535/ Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Conservatism ft. Matt McManus
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cagn2-1a45b66 On postmodern conservatives. Matt McManus talks to Alex and George about a Right increasingly shaped by the parameters of postmodern culture – and his Damage article on this. Who are the key thinkers of postmodern conservatism? Does truth matter anymore?…
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/534/ Is There a Doctrine Called Donroe? ft. Juan David Rojas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-48fwd-1a3eece On Trump and Rubio, Venezuela and Cuba. Writer Juan David Rojas talks to Alex and Lee about the abduction of Maduro, what next for Venezuela, and Trump's "hemispheric" foreign policy. What is the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America?…
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/533/ Reading Club: Illiberalism?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hcd36-1a39f72 On "thin ideologies" in a postmodern age. The Reading Club kicks off with an exploration of illiberalism, a "new ideological universe" that exists in "a permanent situational relation to liberalism." For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership What are…
/532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ec2tp-1a36d83 On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context. What is the…
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/531/ Interiorising the Border ft. Ryan Zickgraf
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3j7t9-1a3144c On ICE, Minneapolis – and your questions & comments. Contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf is back from Minnesota and tells us what is happening on the ground. We also discuss: If this was Trump picking a fight, why Minnesota? Do the…
/530/ Urgent and Immediate and Impossible ft. Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ktakh-1a28e9c On the social turn in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts Christie and Ricky talk to Alex and George about their article in issue #5 of Damage, on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through therapy. What is the 'social turn' and is…
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/529/ Don’t Pick Up: The Scam Economy ft. Mark Bo
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ymhnq-1a2339f On Southeast Asia's scam compounds. Mark Bo, organised-crime researcher and co-author of Scam, talks to Alex and Lee about his book, his experiences and why this fusion of gangsterism and speculation has taken root in the contemporary economy. What…
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