https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q87en-1727b7c On Georgia's pivotal elections and its post-Soviet history. [Full episode only for patrons] Hans Gutbrod, who has been working in the Caucasus region since 1999 and now teaches at Ilia State University in Tblisi, talks to Alex about Georgia's…
Read More /448/ Foreign Agents, Quiet Oligarchs & Neverending History ft. Hans Gutbrod
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g8x7d-1720e7e On the US election, messaging and learning stupid lessons. [Full episode only at Patreon] We welcome Amber A'Lee Frost (California via Indiana and New York) and Ryan Zickgraf (Pennsylvania via Illinois and Georgia) to preview the US election. We…
Read More /447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber A’Lee Frost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-64zv6-1715111 On egg-freezing, 'having it all', and neoliberal liberty. [Patreon Exclusive] We welcome Damage editor and practicing psychologist Amber Trotter on to talk about "Frozen Freedom", Amber's piece on artificial reproductive technology and different kinds of freedom. Alex and George ask…
Read More /446/ The Techno-Fantasy of Perfect Freedom ft. Amber Trotter
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p44x3-170fe2e On the left-wing case for freedom. Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch is back on to talk about how the Democrats are approaching the US presidential election. Alex talks us through an influential and widely-read article that he wrote in 2020…
Read More /445/ How I Hacked the US Election ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3zij3-1709f03 On Israel's invasion of Lebanon and beyond. Karl Sharro (Lebanese-Iraqi architect and satirist @KarlreMarks) and Iranian writer and historian Arash Azizi join us to discuss war in the Middle East. We ask: Is Israel finally waging the great war that…
Read More /444/ Opportunism & Revenge in the Middle East ft. Karl Sharro & Arash Azizi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vii7f-16fd8c4 On Nations & Nationalism since 1870. [Patreon Exclusive] We start by dealing with your questions regarding last month's RC, on Stalin, Zhukhov and WWII. Then we read and discuss Eric Hobsbawm's classic work in which he emphasises that nations…
Read More /443/ Nations, Globalisation & De-development: Reading Club (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-699ur-16eca9e On France's permacrisis. [Patreon Exclusive] French sociologist Nathan Sperber talks to George and Alex about his new essay in the New Left Review, "The French Crisis: Organic or Conjunctural". We catch up with what has happened in France since…
Read More /442/ The Unique French Capacity for Disappointment ft. Nathan Sperber (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f55pv-16e9e37 On liberal takes on the end of the End of History. [Patreon Exclusive] We start by discussing Yasha Mounk's dismissal of an end to the End of History. Does he underestimate liberal democracy's inability to legitimise itself anymore? Is…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xrypu-16e1e72 On tradwives, influencers, and boys. [Patreon Exclusive] Amber is back on the pod, talking to Alex and George about her forthcoming piece on neo-traditionalism and women, in Damage issue 3, which will be on Mothers. We discuss: What are the…
Read More /440/ Dear Tradmother, Why Are You Sad? ft. Amber A’Lee Frost (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iq7y5-16da6fd On "eco-modernism". Ted Nordhaus, co-founder and executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, talks to Leigh and Alex the 20th anniversary of "The Death of Environmentalism" and the 10th anniversary of "The Ecomodernist Manifesto". We discuss: The fundamental philosophical differences…
Read More /439/ We Can Create Our Own Environment ft. Ted Nordhaus
