/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,…

/292/ Bungazão 2022: Unrealistic Pragmatism, ft. Unbridled Possibility Collective

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6xhii-12d6cf0 On Brazil's containment of the crisis. We talk to members of the Unbridled Possibility Collective (Fabio Luis B. Santos | Thais Pavez | Daniel Cunha) about their intervention, trying to look beyond this week's election in Brazil. What does…

/286/ What Was Communism? ft. Branko Milanovic

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pgv57-12b743a On Communism's historic role.   We talk to renowned Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic about growing up in Yugoslavia and how, in much of the world, History never ended. We then dedicate much of the episode to discussing Branko's claim…

/228/ Three Articles: Popular Backlash in Chile, India, Europe

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dk27v-113c640 On people power on three continents. We discuss Chile's landmark elections, the first after the uprising of 2019-20, which see a face-off between left and far-right; Modi's repeal of controversial laws that provoked a huge mobilisation of farmers in…

/200/ The World In One Country ft. Many Guests

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9d7f7-10761db On world history, 1900-2020. For our 200th episode special, we pose the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereby understand the history of the whole world, which would you pick?"…

/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pjt87-1008de0 On Latin America's progressive wave and its discontents. A new book on Latin America argues that 'pink tide' governments tried to treat the symptoms of neoliberal capitalism while allowing the underlying situation to worse. We talk to the author,…

/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jwdtt-1008d7a On cash welfarism and state investment. Plus regionalism in Belgium & the UK. Anton Jäger is back on the pod to discuss the emerging 'transfer state'. We examine Biden's massive trillion-dollar spending plans and ask if this means we're…