/402/ Revolution and Conservatism, e.g. in Mexico ft. Roger Lancaster (sample)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mqsby-15cbc90 On President AMLO and the rebuilding the working class.   [Patreon Exclusive]   We continue our discussion with anthropologist Roger Lancaster who has lived and researched in Mexico for decades, on the past and present of Mexican radicalism. How…

/388/ Betting on Bukele (I) ft. Nelson Rauda / Juan Rojas

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g798a-157253a On El Salvador and mass incarceration.    Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, has just been re-elected on a landslide. His trademark policy is a state of emergency and the locking-up of tens of thousands of suspected gang members. He…

/374/ You’re Gonna Need Representation ft. Vincent Bevins

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-b4m2c-14f006a On a decade of protest around the world.   Journalist Vincent Bevins is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. We discuss the 2010s protest…

/371/ The Milei Massacre Didn’t Happen ft. Ernesto Seman

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6v6ia-14db517 On Argentina's historic election.   Historian of populism and anti-populism Ernesto Seman tells us what is happening in Argentina amidst severe economic crisis. The radical libertarian madman Javier Milei failed to win, and a second-round runoff will be needed,…

/367/ Don’t Pay Them Back ft. Jerome Roos

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gnpfv-14c915b On sovereign debt and taking back control.   The leading candidate in Argentina's election this month wants to avoid defaulting on the country's debt at all costs. But back in 2001, after a mass revolt, Argentina reneged on its…

UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-btjba-14ac2da On the radical right in the global periphery.   [This was originally a Patreon Exclusive]   Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or…

Excerpt: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d7wyh-145246f On the radical right in the global periphery.   [Patreon Exclusive]   Erdogan, Modi, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte. Though the latter two are gone, the first three are still going strong, in government for a decade or more. What unites…

/299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-crhj2-12fbca7 On reclaiming populism.   With only a couple of days to go until the decisive runoff between Lula and Bolsonaro, we continue our Bungazão 2022 series by talking to to political scientist Miguel Lago about how Lula and Bolsonaro…

/297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-znebw-12f2e1f On corruption & anti-corruption. When Bolsonaro won in 2018, he rode a wave of anti-corruption sentiment. Now he's doled out billions in pork via a secret budget, but this doesn't seem to bother his supporters. What happened? Benjamin Fogel,…