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/116/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington

by Alex__1789April 7, 2020Leave a comment

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…

Excerpt: /110/ Three Articles: De-democratising

by Alex__1789March 3, 2020Leave a comment

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…

/77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2 [UNLOCKED]

by Alex__1789January 7, 2020November 30, 2021Leave a comment

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…

/100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests

by Alex__1789December 10, 2019December 17, 2019Leave a comment

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…

/98/ Painful Politics ft. Jennifer Silva

by Alex__1789November 28, 2019December 17, 2019Leave a comment

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…

/92/ Three Articles

by Alex__1789October 17, 2019Leave a comment

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;…

/84/ How To Fail Better ft. Adam Proctor

by Alex__1789August 15, 2019Leave a comment

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,…

/82/ Socialist Trumplandia ft. Eric Blanc

by Alex__1789August 1, 2019Leave a comment

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…

/78/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 3

by Alex__1789July 4, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

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…

/76/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 1

by Alex__1789June 20, 2019November 30, 2021Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dmeqf-b544f6 Special multipart series on the Californian Ideology: the seemingly paradoxical hybrid of New Left and New Right ideas - the synthesis of hippies with yuppies, all tied together with the promise that technology might liberate us. In part one,…