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…
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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…
Read More Excerpt: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
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…
Read More /299/ Micropower & Transcendence in Brazil (Bungazão 2022) ft. Miguel Lago
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,…
Read More /297/ Bungazão 2022 (Clean & Godly) ft. Benjamin Fogel
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…
Read More /292/ Bungazão 2022: Unrealistic Pragmatism, ft. Unbridled Possibility Collective
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…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-23mt5-12b6eff On Brazil's elections and the military. A month away from the first round showdown between former president Lula and current president Jair Bolsonaro, lawyer, podcaster and communist Alcysio Canette joins us to look at the features that have…
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…
Read More /228/ Three Articles: Popular Backlash in Chile, India, Europe
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?"…
Alex has an essay in American Affairs, arguing that decline and crisis in core capitalist countries is best understood a Brazilianization: not just inequality and oligarchy, but cynicism, anti-politics, indeterminacy, and the End of History - these are all facets…
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