/281/ Foreign Fighters, Left & Right (I) ft. Stefan Bertram-Lee
On Rojava and Ukraine. We talk to Stefan Bertram-Lee, former volunteer fighter for the the YPG in Rojava, about whom a Hollywood movie is being made. We ask him about the type of person who volunteer...
16 Aug 202255min
Excerpt: /280/ Three Articles: Liberal Nationalism
[Patreon Exclusive] With European liberals waving Ukraine flags, how might the war and escalating geopolitical tensions between major power be prompting a return to nationalism and patriotism? Is ...
9 Aug 20229min
/279/ Society of the Speculative ft. Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
On our financialised world. We talk to Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou about his new book, Speculative Communities. How has speculation become the very practice around which modern societies coalesce? And...
2 Aug 20221h 13min
Excerpt: /278/ Reading Club: Cynicism & Ideology
[Patreon Tier 2&3 Exclusive] On Zizek's "How Marx Invented the Symptom" from The Sublime Object of Ideology. We kick off the second phase of the 2022 Reading Club, on Cynical Ideology, with th...
29 Juli 20226min
/276/ Broken Promises ft. Fritz Bartel
On the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism. Fritz Bartel talks to us about his new book in which the 1970s crisis and its aftermath takes centre-stage. How did the response to this g...
26 Juli 202257min
/273/ Eco-Leninism? [UNLOCKED]
On the climate emergency. We are specially unlocking this episode of our monthly Reading Club – the concluding episode of the first half of the 2022 syllabus (download it here). If you'd like full acc...
21 Juli 20221h 19min
Excerpt: /275/ Our Reply to Critics: Review of Reviews
On reviews of our book, The End of the End of History [Patreon Exclusive] A year since the book came out, and two years since we finished writing it, we take a look at published reviews the book...
19 Juli 202210min
Excerpt: /274/ Aufhebonus Bonus: July 2022
[Patreon Exclusive] On your questions & criticisms. We discuss the link between Covid and war in Ukraine and return to the question of who exactly is the ruling class. Plus: inflation, what actually h...
12 Juli 202213min
