Episodes
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Excerpt: /372/ Reading Club: Globalisation (I)
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
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What's at stake in thinking of East Asian growth as a renaissance, or correction of the historical blip of European ascendency?
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How compelling is the account of East Asian success as a fusion of industrious and industrial revolution?
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Was Arrighi right to focus on the neoconservative Project for a New American Century?
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What do we think about Adam Smith's account of different classes' capacity for political action
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What's at stake in the revisionist view of Adam Smith as pro-state Enlightenment thinker rather than patron saint of the free market?
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The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, Razmig Keucheyan, Verso (2010)
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
/371/ The Milei Massacre Didn’t Happen ft. Ernesto Seman
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
Tuesday Oct 24, 2023
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What is 'Peronism' and how does it occupy so much political space?
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How does Milei appeal to informal workers using market ideology?
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What is distinct about Latin American populism?
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How is anti-populism used to denigrate the masses?
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What is the role of nostalgia for the golden age in Argentina?
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In Chile and Argentina, anti-populist politics is failing, Ernesto Seman, FT
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Breve historia del antipopulismo (Brief History of Antipopulism), Ernesto Seman
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Ambassadors of the Working Class, Ernesto Seman
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Javier Milei is not done yet, Alex Hochuli, Unherd
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Javier Milei is not a South American Trump, Alex Hochuli, Unherd
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/367/ Don’t Pay Them Back ft. Jerome Roos
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/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
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/93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
Friday Oct 20, 2023
/370/ Dead Ends in Israel & Palestine ft. Alex Gourevitch
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
- why Hamas was becoming irrelevant and how the 7 October attack was an attempt to combat that;
- why violence is necessary but the Palestinians are in a catch-22;
- how the West is implicated in the violence and callousness on show;
- why the Palestinians are the most oppressed and forgotten people;
- why Hamas is not an anticolonial freedom struggle; and
- what is the right way to compare this to Ukraine.
- No end in sight: Israel’s search for a Gaza strategy, Lawrence Freedman, FT (attached)
- The House of Zion, Perry Anderson, NLR
- Whither Palestine, David Polansky, Strange Frequencies
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
/369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
- On disinformation: A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century, Jacob Siegel, Tablet
- A trap has been set for Israel, Jacob Siegel, Unherd
- End US Aid to Israel, Jacob Siegel & Liel Leibovitz, Tablet
- On data: The Nanny vs. The Nanny State, Jacob Siegel & John Robb, Tablet
- Manifesto Podcast, Jacob Siegel & Phil Klay
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
/367/ Don’t Pay Them Back ft. Jerome Roos
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
Tuesday Oct 10, 2023
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Memoria del saqueo (Social Genocide), film on 2001 debt crisis and uprising in Argentina (many versions available online)
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/83/ Now It’s Syrizous (episode on Syriza's defeat in Greece)
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The World in One Country: Greece, Jonas Kyratzes (part of ep.200)
Monday Oct 09, 2023
/366/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (IV)
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
- Why the West's elites invented a permacrisis, Thomas Fazi, Unherd
- Welcome to the world of the polycrisis, Adam Tooze, FT
- Year in a word: Polycrisis, Jonathan Derbyshire, FT
- On the crisis of crisis: /327/ Capitalism on Edge ft. Albena Azmanova
- On the structural reasons why the regime survives: /246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
/365/ It’s So Over (Again) ft. Ryan Zickgraf
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
- America's Politics of Nothing, Ryan Zickgraf, Compact
- After Anti-Politics: The Apeiron, Alex Hochuli, Sublation
- Everything is Hyperpolitical, Anton Jäger, The Point
- /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Excerpt: /364/ The Eternal Sunshine of the Bourgeoisie
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
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‘A deranged masterpiece’: why you should watch The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian
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What Have the Bourgeoisie Done for us Lately?, Stephan Bertram-Lee, Sublation
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A Brief History of the Bourgeoisie, or We Are All Bourgeois Now, David Polansky, Strange Frequencies
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The Bourgeois(ie) as Concept and Reality, Immanuel Wallerstein, New Left Review
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
UNLOCKED: /351/ Eating the Left’s Lunch? ft. Cecilia Lero & Tamás Gerőcs
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
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Philippines: /52/ Duterte's Despotism ft. Nicole Curato
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Excerpt: /363/ Outsourcing the State
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
Tuesday Sep 12, 2023
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In Clover, Laleh Khalili, LRB (attached)
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The Big Con — the case against consultancies (review of Mazzucatto & Collington), Diane Coyle, FT (attached)
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Letter: Groundless assertions about a trusted profession (response from a consultant), FT
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How PwC captured Australia, Shahar Hameiri, Unherd
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Consultancies Have Been the Handmaidens of Neoliberalism, Nathan Akehurst, Jacobin
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Radical Centrism: Uniting the Radical Left and the Radical Right, Ashwin Parameswaran, Macroresilience
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The limits of government outsourcing, Martin Bortz, Pursuit
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
/362/ Life Doesn’t Have to Zuck ft. Cory Doctorow
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
Tuesday Sep 05, 2023
- The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation, Cory Doctorow, Verso
- Pluralistic, Cory Doctorow's blog
- Big Tech and the Current Challenges Facing the Class Struggle, Tricontinental Institute
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Excerpt: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Excerpt: /360/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (III)
Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
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Legitimation Crisis, Jurgen Habermas
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The Return of the Repressed, Wolfgang Streeck, NLR 104, March–April 2017
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
/359/ Apollo Gets High ft. Benjamin Fong
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
- Building Big Things, Damage Magazine, Issue 1
- Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, Benjamin Y. Fong, Verso
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Who Deserves Amphetamines, Benjamin Fong, The Point