Excerpt - Paul Rogers on the Ukraine crisis
Paul Rogers joins PTO again to talk about his recent article in Open Democracy: Who would benefit from Russia going to war with Ukraine? We chatted about the Russian military build up on Ukraine's bor...
12 Feb 20223min
Chile's left turn w/ Camila Vergara
Camila Vergara joins PTO to talk about Chile's new left wing government and the new president elect, former student leader Gabriel Boric. We talked about what to expect from the new government in the ...
11 Feb 202244min
Eric Zemmour and the mainstreaming of the French far-right w/ Sebastian Budgen
Sebastian Budgen joins PTO to talk about the rise of Eric Zemmour - the new star of the French far right and a candidate in April's presidential election. We discussed Zemmour's career in journalism, ...
17 Jan 202244min
Excerpt - The Omicron wave w/ Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour returns to PTO to talk about the omicron variant and why he believes Covid19 will be a crisis of a decade, rather than years. We also talked about whether the British government will e...
21 Dec 20212min
Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part two)
Jason Hickel returns to PTO for the second part of a two part interview on his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. We talked about the concept of 'green growth', and why the notion o...
19 Dec 202147min
Excerpt - Will Davies on whether Boris Johnson's days as PM are numbered
Boris Johnson's grip on power seems more precarious than at any other point during his time in office. PTO spoke to Will Davies about whether we're at the beginning of the end of the Johnson era, and ...
13 Dec 20213min
Coming of age at the end of history w/ Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi joins PTO to talk about her new book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. It tells Lea's story of growing up in Stalinist Albania, the end of communist party rule in 1990, and the countr...
4 Dec 202145min
Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener's questions (part two)
Part two of Richard Seymour responding to listener's questions, including on Amia Srinivasan's work, and also on critiques of psychoanalysis - a practice that plays a very important role in Richard's ...
25 Nov 20213min
