Episodes
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Excerpt: /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
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Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this model 'global city', and how does its communist and anti-colonial past lead to its hyper-capitalist present?
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
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On the end of the Age of Imitation.
We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why liberal democracy stopped being the model to follow - in Eastern Europe, Russia and even the USA.
Thanks for all the questions, they are addressed in the last third of the episode.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
/113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
On global cities.
Global cities flaunt themselves to global capital and are shaped by it. They are self-conscious and eager to transmit 'globalness'. But why? And how has the city under globalisation been reshaped? What is the role of money and power - not to mention sex and culture? And does the sameyness of global cities now mean that medium and small cities are where we should be looking for cultural and political change?
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Excerpt: /112/ Ideologies of the Near Future
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
On political conflict over the next decade
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We debate what ideological contestation is going to look like in the next 2/5/10 years. Will liberalism adopt Silicon Valley solutionism? Does the centre-right become fully nationalist? And the far right have a future if that happens? And where does the left go next?
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
/111/ Big Money Talk: The Case for MMT ft. Bill Mitchell
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
- Reclaiming the State, Bill Mitchell and Thomas Fazi (book)
- MMT Has Been Around for Decades. Here’s Why It Just Caught Fire, Ben Holland & Matthew Boesler, Bloomberg
- An MMT response on what causes inflation, FT
- What you need to know about modern monetary theory, Gavyn Davies, FT
- MMT Is Already Helping, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Jacobin
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Excerpt: /110/ Three Articles: De-democratising
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
In this latest Three Articles, we discuss American democracy and those who pretend to save it or undermine it.
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Readings:
- It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president, Julia Azari, WaPo
- Michael Bloomberg: Smirking Id Of America’s Elites, Matt Purple, The American Conservative
- Bernie Sanders Was Right to Talk About Wage Slavery. We Should Talk About It, Too., Alex Gourevitch, Jacobin