https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p3eam-138ce79 On The Covid Consensus. We're joined by two authors whose new book asks why lockdowns were adopted almost universally. National and transnational health authorities dropped pre-pandemic plans in favour of open-ended nationwide lockdowns which were to remain in…
Read More /321/ Covid Dissensus ft. Toby Green & Thomas Fazi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fjnhy-13833d0 [Patreon Exclusive] On your questions and criticisms. A bumper episode as we respond to your points from December through to the end of January. We discuss 'political capitalism', where the left is today, atomisation, degrowth, disciplining the…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8caki-137986a On the death of the left. We talk to Steve Hall and Simon Winlow, social scientists in the northeast of England, about their new book, The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin From the Beginning Again.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5wyjn-136f637 On the key events and developments in 2022. We look back at how the world transitioned from the pandemic to war over the past year, and what the socio-political fallouts have been. Is everything "better than expected"? Has…
Read More /316/ From Emergency to Emergency: 2022 Review, ft. Ashley Frawley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-e6f3q-1366501 On aesthetic criticism & performance. The hosts of a new podcast on film, Performance Anxiety, join us to talk about how a focus on performance can break through endless squabbles over wokeness and representation in film. We also discuss…
Read More /314/ Shallow & Wrongheaded Filmic Squabbles ft. Maren Thom & Alex Dale
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i69ck-1359c94 On the achievement of democracy and the 'impartial' state.We speak to sociologist Dylan Riley about his new book Microverses, a series of aphorisms on social theory and politics.The rational-legal state seems to be under threat by politicians who have…
Read More /312/ Consolation-Prize Marxism & the Bunga-Bunga State ft. Dylan Riley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d5zc3-1357261 Is there a new 'transformative' class? [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We close of the 2022 Reading Club, and the final section on 'Neo-Feudalism', by discussing how class is changing. Through readings by Guy Standing and Ruy…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vbce6-13526bf On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth is official policy. Yet its advocates, drawing from the work of radicals…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3wc5d-133c2f5 On atomisation and association. Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone came out 22 years ago and the structural changes he identified then – increasing atomisation – have only worsened. Everyone now blames the internet, and though it may have accelerated…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9tcvb-133847e On the global left after the Cold War. [Patreon Exclusive] Has the left declined, been defeated, or is it dead? Is the continuity with the Old and New Lefts of the 20th century, or should we understand 1989 as…
