The roots of the new cold war w/ Gilbert Achcar
In 1999 in the wake of the Kosovo conflict Gilbert Achcar published a book titled 'The New Cold War: The World After Kosovo'. At the time, describing tensions between the United States, Russia and Chi...
14 Sep 20231h 37min
Excerpt - Adam Tooze on the significance of the Inflation Reduction Act
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to respond to the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. Become a £5 supporter on patreon to get access to this and other episodes of PTO Extra! Go to patreon.com/po...
5 Sep 20234min
Excerpt: Adam Tooze on the UK's economic malaise
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to respond to the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. Become a £5 supporter on patreon to get access to this and other episodes of PTO Extra! Go to patreon.com/po...
2 Sep 20231min
The Plague: Living Death in Our Times w/ Jacqueline Rose
Jacqueline Rose returns to the show to discuss her new book, The Plague: Living Death in Our Times. We talked about what the Covid-19 pandemic revealed about contemporary society and whether the the i...
23 Aug 202339min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on conspiracism
Richard Seymour responds to questions sent in by listeners on subjects ranging from conspiracy theory, the ferocity of anti-communist rhetoric on the right - in spite of the absence of a global commun...
12 Aug 20231min
An ideology of the flesh w/ Amber Husain
Amber Husain joins PTO to talk about her new book, Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh. We talked about whether it's possible for there to be such a thing as 'ethical meat', why Amber thinks veganism ...
3 Aug 202355min
Writers and missionaries w/ Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz joins PTO to talk about his new book, 'Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination'. We talked about why Adam, though a huge admirer of Edward Said and his classic work Or...
20 Jul 20231h 7min
Interregnum - The meaning of Prigozhin's rebellion
On the 23rd of June, following months of increasing tension between the Wagner Group and the Russian Ministry of Defence, Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his rebellion. Prigozhin's forces quickly took cont...
10 Jul 202341min
