/318/ The Dead Left ft. Steve Hall & Simon Winlow
On the death of the left. We talk to Steve Hall and Simon Winlow, social scientists in the northeast of England, about their new book, The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin From the Beginning A...
31 Jan 20231h 4min
/316/ From Emergency to Emergency: 2022 Review, ft. Ashley Frawley
On the key events and developments in 2022. We look back at how the world transitioned from the pandemic to war over the past year, and what the socio-political fallouts have been. Is everything "...
24 Jan 202358min
/314/ Shallow & Wrongheaded Filmic Squabbles ft. Maren Thom & Alex Dale
On aesthetic criticism & performance. The hosts of a new podcast on film, Performance Anxiety, join us to talk about how a focus on performance can break through endless squabbles over wokeness and re...
17 Jan 202353min
/312/ Consolation-Prize Marxism & the Bunga-Bunga State ft. Dylan Riley
On the achievement of democracy and the 'impartial' state. We speak to sociologist Dylan Riley about his new book Microverses, a series of aphorisms on social theory and politics. The rational-legal...
10 Jan 20231h 4min
Excerpt: /311/ Reading Club: The Precariat
Is there a new 'transformative' class? [Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive] We close of the 2022 Reading Club, and the final section on 'Neo-Feudalism', by discussing how class is changing. Through rea...
6 Jan 20236min
Excerpt: /310/ Do You Want to De-Grow?
On 'degrowth communism'. [Patreon Exclusive] Why the rage for degrowth now? With deindustrialisation, energy rationing and severe pressure on standards of living, it looks increasingly like degrowth i...
3 Jan 202315min
/309/ Sack of Potatoes ft. Anton Jäger
On atomisation and association. Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone came out 22 years ago and the structural changes he identified then – increasing atomisation – have only worsened. Everyone now blames...
20 Dec 20221h 4min
Excerpt: /308/ A Balance-Sheet of the Left
On the global left after the Cold War. [Patreon Exclusive] Has the left declined, been defeated, or is it dead? Is the continuity with the Old and New Lefts of the 20th century, or should we u...
13 Dec 202211min
