/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual. What is qu...
7 Huhti 30min
/542/ Letters to the Editors: March 2026
We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month. Key issues: The difference between radical conservatism and the far right Racism in class society in decomposition Tech ...
31 Maalis 29min
/541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong
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 ab...
24 Maalis 1h 8min
/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor
On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral institutions but whose...
17 Maalis 41min
/539/ Reading Club: Where's Our Flying Cars?
On the slowing rate of technological progress. Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 essay, Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Pro...
13 Maalis 28min
/538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, an...
10 Maalis 1h 15min
/537/ Letters to the Editors: Feb 2026
We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month or so. Key issues this month are: What are the wrongs of the postmodern right – aand left? Will the civilisational paradigm...
27 Helmi 31min
/536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg
On anti-racism, communism, and philosophy. Alex Gourevitch talks to political philosopher Paul Gomberg about his original and deep Marxist arguments for what makes racism wrong, why racism cannot be e...
24 Helmi 50min
