Where do US-China relations go from here? w/ Jake Werner
Jake Werner on US-China relations in the context of the trade war. We discussed why Donald Trump has dialled down his rhetoric over tariffs, and why the term "decoupling" hardly captures the severity ...
29 Apr 202551min
Israel's renewed offensive w/ Amjad Iraqi
Amjad Iraqi returns to PTO to discuss the Israeli offensive in Gaza - following on from Israel's violation of the ceasefire in late March. We spoke about why the ceasefire was always likely to be viol...
22 Apr 202546min
Excerpt - Quinn Slobodian responds to listener questions
Quinn Slobodian returns to answer questions sent in by listeners in response to our recent episode on Quinn's new book, Hayek's Bastards: The neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right. If you'd like to ...
13 Apr 20251min
Hayek's bastards w/ Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian returns to PTO to talk about his new book 'Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right'. Whilst politicians and thinkers of the new right are typically characterised a...
31 Mar 202558min
Whither the Democrats? w/ Natasha Lennard
Natasha Lennard joins PTO to talk about her recent writing on how the Democrats are making sense of their electoral defeat in November and how the mainstream of the party is adopting conservative soci...
21 Mar 202536min
Excerpt - Ambushed in the Oval Office? w/ Richard Seymour
In the latest episode of Interregnum Richard Seymour comments on the the fallout from the calamitous meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and JD Vance. If you would like to listen to thi...
3 Mar 20253min
The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat w/ Hannah Proctor
Hannah Proctor joins PTO to discuss her book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat. Amongst other aspects of the book, we discussed the practice of Maoist self-criticism and its influ...
25 Feb 202553min
Excerpt - Adam Tooze on resistance to Trump
Adam Tooze returns to answer the many excellent questions sent in by PTO supporters. If you would like to listen to this episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 p/m supporter on patreon: ...
8 Feb 20251min
