On violence and on violence against women w/ Jacqueline Rose
Jacqueline Rose joins PTO to talk about her new book, On Violence and on Violence against Women. We discussed how psychoanalysis can help us grasp the mental states that make male violence possible, w...
19 Maj 202138min
How China escaped shock therapy w/ Isabella Weber
At the end of the 1980s, China's leaders came close to implementing the kind of economic shock therapy reforms that a few years later caused a social and economic catastrophe in the former Soviet Unio...
8 Maj 20211h 1min
New Pandemics, Old Politics w/ Alex De Waal
Alex De Waal joins PTO to talk about his new book, New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease. We discussed the history of pandemic disease control, from the cholera outbreaks of...
23 Apr 202135min
Teaser - PTO Extra! Daniel Finn on Northern Ireland and the DUP's dilemma
Earlier this month rioting broke out in loyalist communities in several towns and cities in Northern Ireland - the worst such violence for years. PTO spoke to Daniel Finn about his recent article for ...
16 Apr 20211min
Enoch Powell: Britain's first neoliberal politician w/ Robbie Shilliam
Robbie Shilliam joins PTO to talk about his article, 'Enoch Powell: Britain’s First Neoliberal Politician' which appeared in the New Political Economy Journal. We spoke about how Enoch Powell, far fro...
11 Apr 202126min
Teaser - PTO Extra! "Global Britain" and the UK defence review w/ Paul Rogers
Earlier this month the UK government published the latest defence review, titled 'Global Britain in a Competitive Age'. PTO spoke to international security analyst Paul Rogers about the defence review...
4 Apr 20212min
HyperCurtisisation w/ Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano
Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano join PTO to talk about Adam Curtis's new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head. We chatted about Curtis' politics, the changes in his documentary ...
28 Mars 202135min
The entwinement of police and male violence w/ Melissa Gira Grant & Chardine Taylor Stone
Melissa Gira Grant and Chardine Taylor Stone join PTO to discuss police and male violence and the murder of Sarah Everard. We talked about the importance of not seeing Wayne Couzen's role as a police ...
20 Mars 202147min
