Excerpt: /265/ Three Articles: Inflation!
[Patreon Exclusive] On the economic drivers and political choices of inflation. In the absence of workers demanding higher wages, where is inflation coming from? Is there more to it than pande...
24 Maj 202210min
Excerpt: /264/ Aufhebonus Bonus
[Patreon Exclusive] On your comments & criticisms. We tackle ideological realignments over the use of history; conspiracy theorising; a game-show called The Last True Marxist; whether we've had any pr...
19 Maj 20229min
/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
On liberals' embrace of the past and history wars. We talk to Matthew Karp about his essay, "History As End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past". It seems as if there's an ideological inversion ...
10 Maj 202249min
Excerpt: /261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
[Patreon Exclusive] We analyse the French presidential election results, the country's geographical and class divides, and what a second term for Macron means for the EU. Three Articles: Em...
3 Maj 20227min
Excerpt: /260/ Reading Club: Fear II - Furedi
[Patreon Tier 2 Exclusive] On Frank Furedi's How Fear Works. Following on from last month's discussion of Corey Robin's Fear, we examine a differing attempt to demystify the politics and culture of fe...
29 Apr 202213min
/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
On Marxism & the Left. We talk to Elena & Joshua about their new edited collection, The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left. Who or what is "the Left" today – merely t...
26 Apr 202251min
/257/ How to Boil a Frog (2) ft. Chris Bickerton
The second part of our double ep on France's presidential election. Ahead of the second round, we discuss how likely a Le Pen victory could be and the effect of Zemmour’s candidacy – which appears...
20 Apr 202253min
/256/ How to Boil a Frog (1) ft. Charles Devellennes
On France's presidential elections. We talk to Charles Devellennes to digest the first round, which saw centre-right Macron and far-right Le Pen come out on top, with leftist Mélenchon missing out...
19 Apr 202249min
