Episodes

Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Excerpt: /275/ Our Reply to Critics: Review of Reviews
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
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War at the End of History, Adam Tooze, Chartbook 109
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The End of the End of the End, Sam Kriss, First Things
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Book Review: The End of the End of History, Jason C. Mueller, Critical Sociology
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How long is the end of history?, Connor Harney, Platypus
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Beginning of the End, or End of the Beginning?, Park McDougald, American Affairs
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Book Review: The End of the End of History, Dan Taylor, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
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Certainly the End of Something or Other, Joseph Keegin, The Bellow
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New Perspectives journal roundtable (forthcoming) on The End of the End of History: Daniel Zamora, Anton Jäger, Richard Sakwa, Nicholas Kiersey

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Excerpt: /274/ Aufhebonus Bonus: July 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
On your questions & criticisms.
We discuss the link between Covid and war in Ukraine and return to the question of who exactly is the ruling class. Plus: inflation, what actually happened in the 1990s, contemporary art, and the politics of abortion.

Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
/272/ As Late As Necessary ft. Alex Gourevitch
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
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 was problematic.
How can we ground the right to abortion in an argument for freedom in general? And is the US really faced with a rising tide of reaction, as liberals claim? Are same-sex marriage and contraception imperilled by the decision.
Reading:
- Wrong Life and Abortion, Ethan Linehan, Sublation
- The Left killed the pro-choice coalition, Kat Rosenfield, Unherd
- A Defence of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Johnson
- How to Win the Abortion Argument, Helen Lewis, The Atlantic

Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
/270/ Russia vs the West ft. Richard Sakwa
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
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Whisper it, but Putin has a point in Ukraine, Richard Sakwa, The Spectator
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The Dual State in Russia, Richard Sakwa, Post-Soviet Affairs
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A Review of 'Frontline Ukraine' by Richard Sakwa, Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
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Putin Redux: Continuity and change, Richard Sakwa, openDemocracy

Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Excerpt: /269/ Three Articles: The 90s
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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The 1990s: An age without qualities, Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman (attached)
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Were the 1990s Really Devoid of Politics?, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin
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The ‘90s: The decade that never ended, Jason Farago, BBC

Friday Jun 10, 2022
Anti-Politics & Beyond (Munich Book Launch - Audio)
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
If the End of History was characterised by post-politics, and the 'populist decade' of the 2010s dominated by anti-politics, then how should we understand more recent phenomena? Are the following of a qualitatively different nature to anti-politics, namely: the intensification of culture wars, growing polarisation that does not always align neatly with class, of increasingly hysterical and personalised politics, and of the competition between escalating emergency politics?
To commemorate the publication of the German edition of The End of the End of History, co-author Alex Hochuli was in conversation with historian of political thought, Anton Jäger at the Monacensia in Munich.

Friday Jun 10, 2022
Ruling Class Hysteria (Berlin Book Launch - Audio)
Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022

Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
/268/ Emergency vs Emergency ft. Geoff Shullenberger
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
[Live events in Germany: Berlin / Munich]
On emergency politics today.
We talk to Geoff Shullenberger about competing emergency politics, left and right. Should politics be enjoyable and provide a frisson of transgression, or not? Is bare life all that's on offer? And is declaring the predominance of 'emergency politics' itself an emergency a problem?
Readings:
- How We Forgot Foucault, American Affairs
- The Crisis of the Crisis, The New Atlantis

Tuesday May 31, 2022
/267/ South Africa Mafia State ft. Benjamin Fogel
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
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The insurrection in South Africa is about more than freeing Zuma, Benjamin Fogel, Al Jazeera
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Dons have KZN in their grip — and Don of Dons Jacob Zuma has the tightest grip, Chris Makhaye, Daily Maverick
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No two elephants are alike, Ryan Brunette, Africa Is A Country
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Rising vigilantism: South Africa is reaping the fruits of misrule, Landau & Misago, The Conversation

Thursday May 26, 2022
Excerpt: /266/ Reading Club: Foucault & Biopolitics
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022

Tuesday May 24, 2022
Excerpt: /265/ Three Articles: Inflation!
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
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Chartbook #122: What drives inflation?, Adam Tooze, Substack
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Inflation Is No Accident, Christopher Caldwell, Compact
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Britain is drifting towards economic oblivion, Ben Marlow, Telegraph

Thursday May 19, 2022
Excerpt: /264/ Aufhebonus Bonus
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
On your comments & criticisms.
We tackle ideological realignments over the use of history; conspiracy theorising; a game-show called The Last True Marxist; whether we've had any progress over the last 50 years; and much more.

Tuesday May 10, 2022
/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
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 liberals see history in terms of original sin and cycles of injustice, or at best, want to relitigate the past in order to fight battles of the present. Meanwhile conservatives have abandoned the past. What does this say about current attitudes to capital-h History and making the future?
Readings:
- History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past, Matt Karp, Harpers
- Ends in Sight: Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson, Gregory Elliott
- The End of the End of History, Bungacast

Tuesday May 03, 2022
Excerpt: /261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
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Emmanuel Macron Is Forming a New Right-Wing Bloc, Interview with Bruno Amable, Jacobin
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Why Macron is invincible, Christopher Caldwell, Unherd
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Le Pen was doomed from the start, Nathan Pinkoski, Compact
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Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France, Alexis Moriatis, Brooklyn Rail
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Macron, Le Pen and France’s long battle between order and dissent, Sudhir Hazareesingh, FT
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon's new supporters: the young, urban working class, Julie Carriat, Le Monde

Friday Apr 29, 2022
Excerpt: /260/ Reading Club: Fear II - Furedi
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works.
Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fear.
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