https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7ejbt-1baa755 On Italy, right-wing culture war, and hegemony. David Broder is back on the pod, talking to Alex and Lee about how Giorgia Meloni has managed to become Italy's longest-serving post-war prime minister. What accounts for Meloni’s longevity? Has she…
Read More /568/ Is There a ‘Meloni Model’ for Europe? ft. David Broder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-77mx3-1ba6037 On the US midterms and the beginning of the end of Trump. Ryan Zickgraf talks to Alex about an election of real import, and whether it is an endorsement of the Democrats or mere anti-incumbency. --> Subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast How…
Read More /567/ Did They Dump Trump on Blue Tuesday? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gz2s2-1b9f81c On the pupils' protests and wider riots. Charles Devellennes, author of books on Macron and French protests, is back on the pod, talking to Alex about a month of insurrection in France. –> For the full episode, subscribe at…
Read More /566/ The Last Big French Crisis ft. Charles Devellennes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u3pv3-1b96abc On Brazil and national reconstruction. In our first ever episode in Portuguese, Alex speaks to Orlando Lima (editor of Valete, in-house magazine of new right-wing party, Missão) about the party and how Orlando came to be a "right-wing Zizekian".…
Read More /565/ New Right Modernizers? ft. Orlando Lima [in Portuguese]
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bj3h8-1b8b443 On infrastructure – who owns and who controls it. Scholar Joscha Abels talks to Lee and Alex about global infrastructure, from satellites to cloud computing to undersea cables. --> For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast What, actually, is…
Read More /564/ The Wealth of Those with No Wealth ft. Joscha Abels
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-syhwa-1b8237f On migration, monarchy, and legitimacy. Merouan Mekouar, professor of development studies at York University in Toronto, gives Alex and Lee an in-depth view of a country at the centre of multiple tendencies. –> Subscribe for more like this, at…
Read More /563/ Kingly Contradictions in Morocco ft. Merouan Mekouar
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jguct-1b78bf2 On dead ends and new beginnings. Socialist writers, teachers and podcasters, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn, talk to Alex and George about their pamphlet, The People Are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism, which came out this…
Read More /562/ No More Populist Shortcuts? ft. Daniel Tutt & C. Derick Varn
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ji9ax-1b6ff0f On sovereignty and Brazil's election. Juliano Fiori, Alameda Institute director, talks to Alex about Lula versus (Flávio) Bolsonaro through the lens of internal and external threats to sovereignty. Is this an election about nothing? What is at stake? How…
Read More /561/ Who Actually Rules Brazil? ft. Juliano Fiori
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sv72f-1b6118f A docu-series from Bungacast. This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what the future of place is in the 21st century.…
Read More Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part four.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3spmp-1b6118b A docu-series from Bungacast. This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what the future of place is in the 21st century.…
Read More Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part three.
