Excerpt: /217/ Reading Club: Intersectional Stalinism
This month's Reading Club is on Mike McNair's "Intersectionalism, the highest stage of western Stalinism?" from the journal Critique (pdf attached on Patreon). How convincing is his genealogy in w...
24 Sep 20214min
/216/ Goodbye Mutti! Election Preview ft. Dominik Leusder
On Germany's election this week. Merkel has led Germany since 2005, outlasting any number of politicians across the West. What accounts for her longevity? How has such a non-ideological, post-politica...
22 Sep 20211h 7min
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 1
The first in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict. In this episode, we look at the current, vexed discourse around generations, and analyse competing theories on how...
21 Sep 202138min
Excerpt: /215/ Organize the Incels?! ft. Alex Gendler
On the long history of involuntary celibates. Alex Gendler talks to us about his essay in American Affairs, "The New Superfluous Men". With growing global concern about incels and increasing anti-t...
14 Sep 20217min
/213/ The Leopard Lockdown ft. Adam Tooze
On Covid and the end of the end of history. Adam Tooze joins us to discuss his new book, Shutdown. In 2020 everything changed... so that everything might remain the same. What were the reasons behin...
7 Sep 20211h 2min
Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
On net-zero, CCP nanny state, and optimised dating. We start off discussing the HBO series "The White Lotus" before tackling three articles on middle-class anxieties: climate change and pressures ...
31 Aug 20217min
/211/ Unlocking the Lockdown Left ft. @galexybrane
On lockdowns, education, and the left. California middle-school teacher and social critic Alex Gutentag (@galexybrane) joins us to talk about the depredations of lockdown in California and the wider w...
24 Aug 20211h 19min
Excerpt: /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism
We discuss Eli Zaretsky's essay, "Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism" (also available as a chapter in his book Political Freud). How convincing is Zaretsky’s idea that, as capitalism was ...
21 Aug 20216min
