Policy – Aufhebunga Bunga

/541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong

by Alex__1789March 24, 2026Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rpw7b-1a7ddc5 On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains. Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks to Alex and George about organising workers…

/481/ Everything is Plausible: Oligarchy – or Worse ft. Corey Robin

by Alex__1789April 15, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rxdcm-187ed7a On Trump's government, his motives and his modus operandi. Political theorist Corey Robin talks to Alex H and contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch about Trump II from a domestic perspective. We look at the three main things…

/479/ El Tarifazo: Trump’s Tariff Thwack ft. Lee Jones

by Alex__1789April 8, 2025Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7y94v-18756cb On Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs and the end of globalisation. [For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] Contributing editor Lee Jones talks to Alex about the tariffs, as they try to reconstruct the Trump admin's thinking, and consider avenues and…

/451/ Capitalism Needs No Help Abolishing Families ft. Dustin Guastella

by Alex__1789November 12, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rnfqn-1738ce6 On pro-family politics, and the US election and labour. [Patreon Exclusive - in association with Damage magazine] Dustin Guastella talks to Phil and Alex about what the election of Trump will mean for US labour organisations. We then move on…

/439/ We Can Create Our Own Environment ft. Ted Nordhaus

by Alex__1789September 19, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-iq7y5-16da6fd On "eco-modernism". Ted Nordhaus, co-founder and executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, talks to Leigh and Alex the 20th anniversary of "The Death of Environmentalism" and the 10th anniversary of "The Ecomodernist Manifesto". We discuss: The fundamental philosophical differences…

/434/ Bodiless Bodies ft. Matthew Thompson & Jonny Gordon-Farleigh (sample)

by Alex__1789August 29, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4m638-16b9302 On the NGO-isation of the state. [Patreon Exclusive] Researchers and writers Matthew Thompson and Jonny Gordon-Farleigh join us to discuss their recent Damage article with George Hoare. Civil society was once occupied by popular forces that could function as a bulwark…

/420/ Fertility Freefall & Gender Strife in South Korea ft. Hyeyoung Woo (sample)

by Alex__1789June 25, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-snk4y-163c23b On baby bust, feminism and male resentment. [Patreon Exclusive] Alex and regular contributor Leigh Phillips call up Korean sociologist Hyeyoung Woo, director of the Institute for Asian Studies at Portland State University, to talk about demography, family and gender…

/419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford (sample)

by Alex__1789June 20, 2024Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9p576-163c5c3 On the electricity grid and the institutions involved. [Patreon Exclusive] Fred Stafford, a STEM professional, a writer on energy and power, and an editor at Damage, talks to Alex and regular contributor Leigh Phillips about the utility of utilities…

/377/ The Locked-Up Country ft. Shahar Hameiri & Tom Chodor

by Alex__1789November 28, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gdvfw-150dbff On Australia's lockdown. We welcome back Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor to talk about their new book, The Locked-Up Country, to try to learn some lessons from Australia's response to Covid-19. We also talk about the country's recent…

Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State

by Alex__1789September 12, 2023Leave a comment

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ui776-14a1bbd On the politics of consultancy [Patreon Exclusive. Sign up @ patreon.com/bungacast] The past 40 years have seen a whole range of things the state used to do itself outsourced to third parties. Now there is a turn…