https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3h65d-122149a On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars. We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion going on, where…
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/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xs7x3-11ededf On the fusion of technocracy & populism. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti talks to us about his book, Technopopulism, co-authored with Chris Bickerton. This is the "new logic of democratic politics". How are all politicians today effectively technocratic and populist at the…
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/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sdcxc-11da437 On the Freedom Convoy, the indigenous question, and 'anti-socialist socialism'(?) Sociologist and commentator Ashley Frawley is back on the pod to talk about the situation in Canada. With family members involved in the protests, we asked her what she…
/242/ Bureaucracy Rules OK ft. Michael Lind
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yrmqi-11b2dba On class wars, new and old. Michael Lind, Professor of Practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, joins us to talk about what it might take to restore working class power in Western states. He explains…
Excerpt: /241/ Three Articles: Peace & Social War in North America
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jes4m-11a95d4 On dovish conservatives, Trumpist coup-mongers and Canadian truckers. - - - Live debate/book launch in NYC, Feb 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-debate-book-launch-the-end-of-the-end-of-history-tickets-261000468427 - - - We examine what arguments 'pro-worker conservatives' are making in an aim to rid the GOP of warmongers…
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/235/ Political Ritalin ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t4z5n-11769e3 On our current attention-deficit and hyperpolitical disorder. In our book, The End of the End of History, we discuss the move from post-politics to anti-politics; from consensus to rejection; from apathy to anger. In a new article,…
Excerpt: /234/ Three Articles: Restoration?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xrene-116ccfc On Millennial homeowners, the USA falling apart, and restoration in the UK. As better-off 30-somethings start to get on the property ladder, does this put paid to 'Generation Left'? Will American decline be accompanied by a second civil war…
Excerpt: /226/ Science Says: No Woke
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3a7i6-113a949 On the Jacobin & YouGov survey of the US working class. A study (pdf) carried out by YouGov on behalf of Jacobin magazine and the Center for Working-Class Politics has learned that "working-class voters prefer progressive candidates who…
/225/ Wokeistan & Lebanonworld ft. Karl Sharro
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ybm2u-11314f8 On sectarianism & identitarianism. Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) is back on Bunga to talk to us about his essay "The Retreat from Universalism in the Middle East and the World". Lebanon has been used as a model for other Middle…
Excerpt: /224/ Three Articles: Labour Revolts?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-sb7fy-111ba9d On rising wages after the pandemic. Workers are quitting their jobs and not going back. Restricted supply is seeing wages go up. Does this signal a new militancy, or are workers just deciding to make do with less?…
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