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/462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker

by Alex__1789January 8, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zam22-17a00c1 On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former president's life and legacy. What do people get wrong about Carter? Was Carter,…

/450/ The World-Soul Rides a Golden Escalator ft. Matt Karp

by Alex__1789November 8, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wqk9r-1733706 On Trump's return and the end of the End of History (still!) Historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to extract the true meaning of the US election. We discuss: How Trump's victory explodes so many Democrat assumptions…

/447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber A’Lee Frost

by Alex__1789October 29, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g8x7d-1720e7e On the US election, messaging and learning stupid lessons. [Full episode only at Patreon] We welcome Amber A'Lee Frost (California via Indiana and New York) and Ryan Zickgraf (Pennsylvania via Illinois and Georgia) to preview the US election. We…

/445/ How I Hacked the US Election ft. Alex Gourevitch

by Alex__1789October 18, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p44x3-170fe2e On the left-wing case for freedom. Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch is back on to talk about how the Democrats are approaching the US presidential election. Alex talks us through an influential and widely-read article that he wrote in 2020…

/438/ You Are Being Enlisted into the Culture War ft. Andrew Hartman

by Alex__1789September 17, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ee8f4-16d5f2c On the US culture wars, then and now. Historian Andrew Hartman, author of A War for the Soul of America, talks to Alex about how US Americans have been sorted into cultural camps over the past fifty years. We…

/428/ The First Poaster (Vice) President? ft. Ryan Zickgraf

by Alex__1789August 1, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u5muc-1689b87 On JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, and arresting decline. [For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast] We discuss the Netflix adaptation of vice-presidential nominee JD Vance's memoir – and the memoir itself – and what it tells us about the direction of…

/384/ Millennial Rule ft. Amber A’Lee Frost

by Alex__1789January 23, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-geib5-155af13 On Dirtbag and the Millennial Left. Bungacast regular Amber A'Lee Frost is back to talk about her new book, Dirtbag — part memoir, part critical essays on millennial socialism. In this episode we discuss: Why "millennial"? Does it…

Excerpt: /382/ Death of the Millennial Left ft. Chris Cutrone

by Alex__1789January 9, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qtwe9-153798c On the missed opportunity of the 2010s. [Patreon Exclusive] Chris Cutrone of Platypus joins us to talk about his collection of essays, The Death of the Millennial Left. We discuss: Why define it as the "Millennial" Left?…

[FROM THE VAULT] /44/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome (N.O.B.S.)

by Alex__1789December 28, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-77zup-1536e48 FROM THE VAULT: ALEX'S PICK (I) In which we lay the liberal establishment down on the shrink's sofa. It's a systematic analysis of liberal derangement: of the inability to accept, explain, or respond to the breakdown of the current order.…

/369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel

by Alex__1789October 17, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-suitt-14d355c On the war on disinformation and the war in Gaza. Jacob Siegel, senior editor at Tablet, joins us to talk about Hamas's attack on Israel and Israel's assault on Gaza. We also discuss how the US crusade against…