https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-y8fkt-edffc0 Episode for patrons $10+. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Polish economist Michal Kalecki's landmark essay, "The Political Consequences of Full Employment". This follows on from our recent free episode, 'It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism' (ep 149) focusing…
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/150/ Shadow Commander ft. Arash Azizi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7z4qr-ed741b On Iran at the End of History. When the US assassinated Iran's 'shadow commander', Qassem Soleimani, everyone thought WW3 would break out. What happened instead? We talk to the author of a new book on Soleimani about the "local…
/149/ It’s Not Robots, It’s Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kh9f6-ecb86f On unemployment. The Covid crisis has led to millions out of work - but the situation was none too rosy before, either. Post-crisis recoveries seem increasingly 'jobless', while the overall labour force participation rate keeps falling as people drop…
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Excerpt: /148/ Three Articles (September)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gzxea-ec85e5 Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation bias; and on Beethoven and access to high culture. Readings: Of moonshots and bus subsidies: How…
/147/ The Past Doesn’t Go Away ft. Benjamin Moser
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xh85-eb8c54 On modernism and its end. We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation. We…
Excerpt: /146/ Class is Cancelled ft. Ben Tippet
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uvzqr-ea91e2 This is an excerpt. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On class. Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more up-to-date identities linking…
/145/ The End of Conservatism ft. Julius Krein
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jxg8p-e660ba On political decline and realignment. The editor of American Affairs joins us to discuss the decay of conservatism and we ask whether this decay doesn't apply to other parts of the political spectrum too. Is today's 'class struggle' really just…
Excerpt: /144/ Reading Club: New Social Movements
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iphrs-e9163f This episode is for patrons only. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss a chapter taken from James Heartfield's "The 'Death of the Subject' Explained", which was recently republished in Damage Magazine as The New Social Movements Against the Old…
Excerpt: /143/ Aufhebonus Bonus (August)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kgei3-e8bd28 The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this semi-regular slot, we respond to your comments and criticisms received over the past month or so. Discussion features whether we're right about the "end of the End…
/142/ Dollar Empire (2) ft. Daniel Bessner
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2p86r-e5ec4b On US foreign policy. Following on from our episode on the political-economy of dollar hegemony (no. 139), we turn to look at how the dollar underpins American empire. Is 'permawar' a product of structural factors, rather than merely the…
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