/503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity
On the end of the end of history and what comes next. Phil is back on the pod, talking with George and Alex about the big themes of the podcast. In particular, we look at a recent essay in Foreign Pol...
31 Jul 202533min
/502/ Their Own Personal Jesus ft. Lamorna Ash
On the "return of religion" in Britain. [Patreon Exclusive] Journalist Lamorna Ash talks to George and Alex about how and why young people might be turning to religion today. Have things moved on fr...
31 Jul 20254min
/501/ Reading Club: The Lower-Middle Class
On Arno Mayer's "The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem". We kick off the third block of the 2024/25 Reading Club, which is dedicated to the question of the middle class: The abatement of class ...
25 Jul 202511min
/500/ Disrupt, Decline, Decay
We celebrate 500 episodes of Aufhebunga Bunga with a cold, hard look at the decay around us. Alex and George plus contributing editors Lee Jones and Alex Gourevitch wrangle with four principal questio...
22 Jul 20251h 24min
/499/ Shame! Shame on Bungacast! ft. Taylor Hines
On shame, guilt and responsibility. Taylor Hines, an editor at Damage magazine, talks to George and Alex about his essay "Fool Me Twice" in Issue 4 of the magazine, which deals with the theme Responsi...
15 Jul 202527min
/498/ After the 12-Day War ft. Eskandar Sadeghi
On Iran and its Axis of Resistance. Historian Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi talks to Alex about the leadup and aftermath of the so-called "12-Day War between Iran and Israel and the US. Hamas and Hezb...
8 Jul 20251h 7min
/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh
On technology, transhumanism, and progress. James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and c...
1 Jul 202531min
/496/ Insane-Washing the War (Which Did Not Take Place)
On the war on Iran that wasn't (yet). Alex and George review the past month in the world and on Bungacast: The crazy will-they-won't-they of a potential US war on Iran The ex post facto justificat...
30 Jun 202522min
