https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u2rhe-1490532 On US politics being stuck. [Patreon Exclusive] We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that hope is a problem because it's…
Read More Excerpt: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9jp7y-148c4ed On the 3rd and final part of Jurgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We wrap up this challenging book by debating some key points. Habermas already felt we lived in a post-truth society.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5c8hb-1488852 On the American drug binge. Forget all the stereotypes – drug use is no longer confined to particular subcultures. US Americans are taking world-historic levels of drugs. Benjamin Fong tells us about his new book, Quick Fixes: Drugs…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vyt2m-147f49e On Australian and New Zealand at the End of History. Antipodean political scientists Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor join us to discuss the history and politics of Australia and New Zealand. If Australia is the “lucky country”, what…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kz97m-1475991 On everyday, private tyranny. Sohrab Ahmari, one of the editors of Compact Magazine, joins us to talk about his book, Tyranny, Inc. We discuss the sorts of private coercion that are found in the US workplace and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yfr2d-146dc12 On film and left-wing terrorism. [Patreon Exclusive] We talk about Uli Edel’s 2008 film The Baader Meinhof Complex, which tells the story of the Red Army Faction in 1960s and 70s Germany. What sorts of myths do…
Read More Excerpt: /355/ F***ing and shooting are not the same
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y3mv8-1467c4d On geopolitical competition over Africa. This episode was originally for subscribers only. To join, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast In light of the 'new Cold War', we look at what the US, Europe, Russia and China's respective "pitches"…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ennjm-146486f On Jürgen Habermas' Legitimation Crisis. [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] What made postwar capitalism 'organised'? And why did many believe it had overcome economic crisis? In this second episode on Legitimacy, we go through part…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3h4hz-14645d7 On music, pop culture, and the politics of the spectacle. Musician, host of This is Revolution and Sublation columnist, Jason Myles joins us to talk about how every podcast is a failed band, if pop music is dead,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ay8n-145b314 On China, Russia, the US and UK.Professor Emeritus and one of the founders of ‘Radical Philosophy’, Sean Sayers, joins us to talk about Marxist philosophy, how it’s developed and changed over the course of the twentieth century and into…
Read More Excerpt: /352/ Cold War Marxism, East & West ft. Sean Sayers
