https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rqi5w-e4672f The episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The protests in the US against police violence - and their globalisation - prompts us to discuss radical proposals for what to do about the police. We look at…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nnniv-e4522d Reading Club episodes are only available to patrons $10+. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastThis month we discuss Wolfgang Streeck's reading of Friedrich Engels which appeared recently in the New Left Review, which deals with the Marxian understanding of war and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u3kid-e37333 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cqk2g-e31cb2 This episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast Mailbag + bonus content ft. Corey Robin In this new semi-regular slot, we feature bonus recordings (here, 20mins of additional discussion with Corey Robin from episode 129)…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5sijq-e27fbf This is a sample. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The three of us discuss some of the themes that emerged from our interview with Krithika Varagur (ep.133) - the entanglement of the US state with Islamism,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uyzd7-e24db2 On Saudi religious proselytism. Saudi Arabia has actively sought to export Salafism. How has it done this - and what have been its effects, in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria and Kosovo? Why was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-we8w3-e13c17 This episode is for patrons $10 and up. Please sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On the Ehrenreich's re-evaluation of the Professional-Managerial Class. We discuss Barbara and John Ehrenreich's "Death of a Yuppy Dream". Also attached are the Ehrenreichs' analyses from…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g7byi-e0b8c5 Full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On this latest Three Articles, we discuss the global Black Lives Matter protests. Reading: The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption, Cedric Johnson, NonSite ‘As soon…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ws9hf-e0b23a On the left case for freedom. We talk to Corey Robin about how the left has sacrificed the realm of freedom to the right. And why the Left's weakness is also the Right's. Plus, why is it clear that Trump…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-msgg7-df4d87 On culturally conservative critics of capitalism. Neoliberalism’s fragmentary and atomising tendencies have gone too far. In response, some right-wingers have turned against the market. At the same time, there’s a (marginal) tendency on the left turning against cultural liberalism.…
