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…
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/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 It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more up-to-date identities linking…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…
/141/ Oh Lebanon, What Now? ft. Rima Majed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-evwif-e6db1b On Lebanon's crisis. We call up Rima Majed in Beirut to talk us through the aftermath of the enormous explosion and ensuing protests. How has Lebanon's history since the civil war created such a profound, multi-layered crisis? We cover…
/140/ Three Articles: Right-Populism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mp9zw-e57fc7 The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this latest Three Articles, we discuss the durability or otherwise of right-populism in the UK, US and Brazil. Reading: Conservatives’ grip on ‘red wall’ holding firm, Sebastian Payne,…
/139/ Dollar Empire ft. Yakov Feygin & Dominik Leusder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v4pch-e588a3 On dollar hegemony. Dutch disease has long been seen as the curse of resource-rich economies in which a currency appreciates and jobs are lost overseas. But what if the greenback is having the same effects on the US economy,…
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