PTO Live! w/ Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny
This week's episode is the recording of our recent live event. Gargi Bhattacharyya, Richard Seymour, and Eleanor Penny were joined by an audience in Finsbury Park, London to discuss the fascism debate...
6 Juni 20241h 9min
Sunak calls the election and where now for the UK left w/ James Schneider
James Schneider joins the show to discuss Rishi Sunak's announcement that the UK general election will take place on July 4th, and to talk about his book 'Our Bloc: How We Win' in which James argues f...
23 Maj 20241h 6min
How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom w/ Maya Wind
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy and they enjoy warm relationships with their counterparts in north America and Europe - including the U...
1 Maj 202448min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)
In today's PTO Extra! Richard Seymour responds to some more excellent listener's questions. We talked about the protests against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza taking place at American universities an...
28 Apr 20243min
Iran and Israel - stepping back from the brink? w/ Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers returns to PTO to talk about Iran's attack on Israel on the 13th of April - the first such direct operation carried out by Iran. We discussed whether the operation was a failure or a quali...
23 Apr 202423min
Israel and the history of imperial feminism w/ Sophie Lewis
Since October 7th Israeli politicians, spokespeople, and Israel's supporters have mobilised feminist narratives in defence of the state's genocidal actions in Gaza and sought to portray Palestinian re...
17 Apr 202447min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US right's partial disenchantment with Israel
In part one of a two-part episode Richard returns to give his thoughts on an apparent turn against Israel on parts of the American right, the significance of the protests against Netanyahu within Isra...
11 Apr 20244min
Late capitalism or technofeudalism? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis joins PTO to discuss his book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. We discussed why Yanis believes capitalism is no longer the appropriate term to describe contemporary economic ...
4 Apr 202443min
