https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2ye2r-14be329 On the end of politics. Is the craziness of the past years, since 2016, ebbing away? Is the establishment back in charge? Journalist Ryan Zickgraf joins us to argue that, yes, the period of 'hyperpolitics' has passed. …
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UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pfdn4-14b41a1 On US politics being stuck. [This was originally a subscriber exclusive. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast] We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that…
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Excerpt: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u2rhe-1490532 On US politics being stuck. [Patreon Exclusive] We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that hope is a problem because it's…
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/359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5c8hb-1488852 On the American drug binge. Forget all the stereotypes – drug use is no longer confined to particular subcultures. US Americans are taking world-historic levels of drugs. Benjamin Fong tells us about his new book, Quick Fixes: Drugs…
/356/ Land of the Unfree ft. Sohrab Ahmari
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kz97m-1475991 On everyday, private tyranny. Sohrab Ahmari, one of the editors of Compact Magazine, joins us to talk about his book, Tyranny, Inc. We discuss the sorts of private coercion that are found in the US workplace and…
Excerpt: /352/ Cold War Marxism, East & West ft. Sean Sayers
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ay8n-145b314 On China, Russia, the US and UK.Professor Emeritus and one of the founders of ‘Radical Philosophy’, Sean Sayers, joins us to talk about Marxist philosophy, how it’s developed and changed over the course of the twentieth century and into…
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/272/ As Late As Necessary ft. Alex Gourevitch
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mvydt-1267417 On abortion. After the US Supreme Court ruling, where does this leave women in the US? Political theorist Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss Roe v Wade, and how the fact it rooted abortion in a right to privacy…
/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
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…
/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…
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