/464/ Decline Under The Donald ft. Daniel Bessner
On Trump's foreign policy, the 2nd time round. Historian and podcaster Daniel Bessner joins Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Lee Jones to ask how this era of rot and decay will proceed under Trump...
21 Jan 20251h 13min
/463/ Reading Club: Place 3 – Sennett
On The Fall of Public Man. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus and the first theme, The Future of Place. We ask is politics possible without a sense of place. Here we ...
14 Jan 202516min
/462/ Blame Carter ft. Tim Barker
On President Jimmy Carter's responsibility for neoliberalism. [Patreon Exclusive] Writer and historian Tim Barker talks to Alex Hochuli and contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about the former preside...
8 Jan 202513min
/461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams
On radical conservatism and global order. Professor Michael C. Williams talks to George and Alex about his co-authored World of the Right and how the radical right has gone global. We discuss: Does ...
2 Jan 20251h 19min
/460/ The Profane Appeal of Sacred Authority
On Conclave. In our final episode of the year, we debate Edgar Berger's new film about a Papal election, featuring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as Cardinals and Isabella Rossellini as a nun. Is t...
23 Dec 202411min
/459/ Reading Club: Place 2 - Augé
On Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity [For access, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership] We continue working through the 2024/25 syllabus with the first theme, The ...
20 Dec 20245min
/458/ The Society of Pure Vibe ft. Anna Kornbluh
On immediacy, representation, and anti-politics. Anna Kornbluh, professor of English and author of Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism talks to Alex about the cultural, political, and econo...
17 Dec 20241h 18min
/457/ AufheBonus Bonus - December 2024
On your questions, comments & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We're back with a final letters to the editor episode of 2024 in which we discuss: the universalisation of 'anti-fascism' as a kind of p...
12 Dec 20244min
