https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-asd99-96e754 In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink's sofa. It's a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order. Why can't the liberal establishment accept that…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5xzrk-95659b In which we ask why the urban question become so pointed today - in the Global North as well as in the South? We look at contestation in urban politics - in São Paulo, Johannesburg, London, New York, and beyond. What…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3y3v-948e65 In which we survey Turkey's election results in light of five years of tumult - Gezi, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, Syrian war, coup, repression. Are cracks beginning to show for Erdogan? He teamed up with ultranationalists, while opposition secularists and Islamists…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wmeej-9407ec In which we discuss how the Right won this month's election -- in a country that has never seen the Left in power. Is Colombia an exception? The civil war there feels like part of the Cold War that…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wfz5p-9396e3 In which we try to understand why it's not the extremes, but the centre, that has given up on democracy. David Adler talks to us about his research, and we learn about the centrist tribes: elites, anti-elite populists, and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-apwrv-932009 In which we talk about the politics of hosting the World Cup + the sublots & intrigues that will animate the tournament: hot and cold wars, Salah's revenge, Brazil after the 7-1. Featuring lots of hating on Sergio Ramos.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8w9tt-92455c In which we discuss why the Left should not to be scared of sovereignty: Brexit, Italexit, and Modern Monetary Theory
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-44j6f-90f036 In which we unpick the legacies of 1968 and all that: political fragmentation, the loss of authority, the cult of youth.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-w3k3f-906c20 In which we debate whether Portugal really represents an alternative to austerity
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5fkw8-8feff4 In which we delve into the gun control debate: are guns really essential for democracy? Plus, the 2018 UK university strike.
