https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-77raf-1adac60 Audio from the live event held at Verdurin, London, on 28 May 2026. The OG Bunga Boys - Alex, George, and Phil - present their takes, followed by responses from contributing editor Lee Jones and friend-of-the-pod Nina Power -…
Tag: Ideas & Theory
/551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9fzr6-1acfb38 On Roland Barthes' Mythologies. Alex, George, and contributing editor Catherine Liu delve into Barthes' 1957 classic to understand the form of ideology critique it proposes – and particularly as it relates to left and right. If the bourgeoisie generates…
/549/ Why Has Politics Genderised? ft. Ashley Frawley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ifvkg-1abf8ea On angry young women. Ashley Frawley, sociologist and senior editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to delve more deeply into young people's political polarisation on gender lines. Why is there a lack of mutual understanding or goodwill between…
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/548/ Post-Legitimate Society ft. Will Charles
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fuq6e-1ab5dc3 On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology. Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself. How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?…
/547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4nas7-1aac996 On political capitalism and divided workers. Sociology professor at UC Berkeley, Dylan Riley, talks to Alex and Lee about economic stagnation, the state propping up capitalism, and class politics. What is "political capitalism"? And is it true that plunder…
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/546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dsbzg-1aa0163 On postliberalism, MacIntyre and Gray. How was the 1950s "end of ideology" (Bell, Lipset) different from the Fukuyaman 1990s "end of history"? Is John Gray correct in his characterisation of Alasdair MacIntyre as a prelapsarian? Does hyperliberal individualism lead…
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/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v5stx-1a90e8a On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What is queer theory and why should it be abolished?…
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/536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u9eq9-1a5468d On anti-racism, communism, and philosophy. Alex Gourevitch talks to political philosopher Paul Gomberg about his original and deep Marxist arguments for what makes racism wrong, why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism, and the limits of many contemporary…
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/533/ Reading Club: Illiberalism?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hcd36-1a39f72 On "thin ideologies" in a postmodern age. The Reading Club kicks off with an exploration of illiberalism, a "new ideological universe" that exists in "a permanent situational relation to liberalism." For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership What are…
/532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ec2tp-1a36d83 On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context. What is the…
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