https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-77mx3-1ba6037 On the US midterms and the beginning of the end of Trump. Ryan Zickgraf talks to Alex about an election of real import, and whether it is an endorsement of the Democrats or mere anti-incumbency. --> Subscribe: patreon.com/bungacast How…
Read More /567/ Did They Dump Trump on Blue Tuesday? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7mbxn-1a9d3d8 On Hungary's elections. Hungarian political analyst and editor of Partizan, Szilard Pap, talks to Alex about the end of 16 years of Fidesz in government. What is the scale of Fidesz’s wipeout? Who is Péter Magyar, and is he…
Read More /545/ Orbanism without Orban: the New European Centre? ft. Szilard Pap
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v8euf-19d6108 On post-woke strategies. Ryan Z is back on, talking to Alex and George about the US Democrats' attempt to respond to Trump/MAGA. In association with Damage magazine. Can the Democrats escape the shadow of woke? Is Big Woke dying?…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q5z8s-18c733e On Poland's election, its history, its self-conception. Philosopher Maciej Szlinder joins us to talk about Polish politics, society and history. Maciej is a member of the general council of the left-wing political party Razem ("Together"), as well as the…
Read More /491/ Squeezed Between Two Empires ft. Maciej Szlinder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pbgnh-180dd47 This episode, originally published in June 2024 only for subscribers, is crucial backdrop to this Sunday's (23 Feb 2025) snap elections in Germany. For more like this, join us at patreon.com/bungacast On German political derangement. Independent researcher and writer…
Read More UNLOCKED: /418/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown System, German-Style ft. Gregor Baszak
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4a6k7-17f2a73 On European decline and inertia. [For full episode: patreon.com/bungacast] Anton Jäger is back, talking to Alex and George about Belgium's new right-wing government, American hyperpolitics, and the lack of a European future. The radical right has prevailed in Belgium,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wqk9r-1733706 On Trump's return and the end of the End of History (still!) Historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to extract the true meaning of the US election. We discuss: How Trump's victory explodes so many Democrat assumptions…
Read More /450/ The World-Soul Rides a Golden Escalator ft. Matt Karp
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q87en-1727b7c On Georgia's pivotal elections and its post-Soviet history. [Full episode only for patrons] Hans Gutbrod, who has been working in the Caucasus region since 1999 and now teaches at Ilia State University in Tblisi, talks to Alex about Georgia's…
Read More /448/ Foreign Agents, Quiet Oligarchs & Neverending History ft. Hans Gutbrod
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g8x7d-1720e7e On the US election, messaging and learning stupid lessons. [Full episode only at Patreon] We welcome Amber A'Lee Frost (California via Indiana and New York) and Ryan Zickgraf (Pennsylvania via Illinois and Georgia) to preview the US election. We…
Read More /447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber A’Lee Frost
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p44x3-170fe2e On the left-wing case for freedom. Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch is back on to talk about how the Democrats are approaching the US presidential election. Alex talks us through an influential and widely-read article that he wrote in 2020…
Read More /445/ How I Hacked the US Election ft. Alex Gourevitch
