https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9eraj-da98c3 On the end of Left Populism. This is a sample. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/BungaCast Friend of the podcast Anton Jäger joins us to discuss the fate of Left Populism, investigate the response of the Left…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r8kzh-d86200 In the first of an occasional series of episodes on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Nick Frayn, a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign in New England. How have things gone on the campaign…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gqn76-d4eacc In this latest Three Articles, we discuss American democracy and those who pretend to save it or undermine it. Sign up for access to the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast Readings: It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vixyn-b90dd2 On drugs and mental health. In part two, we chat about recreational drugs and mental states in a Hollywood bar with friends of the podcast, Amber A'Lee Frost and Alex Gendler. But mostly, we delve deeper into capitalism and…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-c62c9-c93718 On working class pain and politics. We talk to Jennifer Silva about her most recent book, and working class Americans' experience of and perspectives on pain. We discuss racial, gender and class identities and sense of relative losses and…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdiys-c36143 A new format in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack. This week we take a sharp look at the crumbling US political establishment and its empire: impeachment and regime legitimacy;…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ku6a2-baefc2 Scenario-planning for Bernie: what is success, what is productive failure? We attempt to "dream realistically" with Adam Proctor (Dead Pundits Society): how far can this wave of 'democratic socialism' go? Bernie will fail - he won't bring in socialism,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qr3yz-b9ded5 2018 saw a strike wave in the US, as anger was given material form. We talk to Eric Blanc about his book on the wave of teachers' strikes in otherwise 'conservative' states. How can this experience be broadened out…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xzb9m-b6ce27 In part three, we move from the Californian Ideology to talk about the Californian reality: class, suburbs and social mobility. We meet up with Joel Kotkin to discuss the new Californian class structure and the end of the Californian…
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