https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7ejbt-1baa755 On Italy, right-wing culture war, and hegemony. David Broder is back on the pod, talking to Alex and Lee about how Giorgia Meloni has managed to become Italy's longest-serving post-war prime minister. What accounts for Meloni’s longevity? Has she…
Read More /568/ Is There a ‘Meloni Model’ for Europe? ft. David Broder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gz2s2-1b9f81c On the pupils' protests and wider riots. Charles Devellennes, author of books on Macron and French protests, is back on the pod, talking to Alex about a month of insurrection in France. –> For the full episode, subscribe at…
Read More /566/ The Last Big French Crisis ft. Charles Devellennes
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-tnags-199c0d1 On 20 years since the 2005 riots. Fred Lyra, philosopher and musicologist based in Paris, joins Alex to talk about France through 4 moments: 1995 – the last moment of classic class struggle; 2005 – riots in the banlieues;…
Read More /416/ France’s Two Peripheries: Riots and Insurrection ft. Fred Lyra
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gfy98-1971999 On the UK's working-class unrest. Sociologist Lisa McKenzie talks to Alex and contributing editor Lee Jones about why the country feels like a powder-keg. What's behind protests like Unite the Kingdom? How responsible are far-right agitators? Why are threats…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s46r8-18dcd11 On the dual crisis of the world. Wolfgang Streeck, renowned economic sociologist, is back on to talk to us about the crisis of capitalist growth and of democracy. We focus on the solutions proposed in his brilliant new book,…
Read More /494/ National Democracy or Globalist War ft. Wolfgang Streeck
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-dapej-1893ace On the charges against France's Marine Le Pen. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Alex and George discuss some main stories from the past month. After the death of Pope Francis, what's behind left-wing sympathy for the late…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x6fpv-1864bb3 On Erdogan's World and the revolt against it. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Historian Djene Bajalan joins George and Alex to review the past month – ceasefires in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, winning and losing…
Read More /477/ Talking Turkey in the Group Chat ft. Djene Bajalan
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-get3e-18334d8 On cities and the politics of development. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo…
Read More /474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow
