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Excerpt: /154/ A Reasonably Important Election ft. Alex Gourevitch
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On the Covid election. Trump has made himself deeply unpopular while the ...
/153/ Repubblica di Bunga ft. David Broder
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the country of the future. Italy has stagnated for 30 years, becoming a neoliberal gerontocracy with crumbling infrastructure (sound familiar?). Wo...
Excerpt: /152/ I Can't Believe It's Not Weimar ft. David Broder
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On why anti-fascism is a problem. The Trump presidency and the curr...
[UNLOCKED] /146/ Class is Cancelled ft. Ben Tippet
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On class. Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It’s been replaced by conflicts between generations and transcended by more ...
Excerpt: /151/ Reading Club: Full Employment
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode for patrons $10+. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Polish economist Michal Kalecki's landmark essay, "Political Aspe...
/150/ Shadow Commander ft. Arash Azizi
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On Iran at the End of History. When the US assassinated Iran's 'shadow commander', Qassem Soleimani, everyone thought WW3 would break out. What hap...
/149/ It's Not Robots, It's Capitalism ft. Aaron Benanav / Liz Pancotti
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On unemployment. The Covid crisis has led to millions out of work - but the situation was none too rosy before, either. Post-crisis recoveries seem in...
Excerpt: /148/ Three Articles (September)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode is for subscribers only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On Brexit negotiations and state aid; on pandemic policies and confirmation...
/147/ The Past Doesn't Go Away ft. Benjamin Moser
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On modernism and its end. We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and...
Excerpt: /146/ Class is Cancelled ft. Ben Tippet
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is an excerpt. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast On class. Class as an idea and an identity is now supposedly redundant. It...
/145/ The End of Conservatism ft. Julius Krein
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On political decline and realignment. The editor of American Affairs joins us to discuss the decay of conservatism and we ask whether this decay does...
Excerpt: /144/ Reading Club: New Social Movements
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is for patrons only. Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast We discuss a chapter taken from James Heartfield's "The 'Death of the Subje...
Excerpt: /143/ Aufhebonus Bonus (August)
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast In this semi-regular slot, we respond to your comments and criticisms rece...
/142/ Dollar Empire (2) ft. Daniel Bessner
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On US foreign policy. Following on from our episode on the political-economy of dollar hegemony (no. 139), we turn to look at how the dollar u...
/141/ Oh Lebanon, What Now? ft. Rima Majed
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On Lebanon's crisis. We call up Rima Majed in Beirut to talk us through the aftermath of the enormous explosion and ensuing protests. How has Lebanon'...
Excerpt: /140/ Three Articles: Right-Populism
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast In this latest Three Articles, we discuss the durability or otherwise of ri...
/139/ Dollar Empire ft. Yakov Feygin & Dominik Leusder
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On dollar hegemony. Dutch disease has long been seen as the curse of resource-rich economies in which a currency appreciates and jobs are lost over...
Excerpt: /138/ Fuck, Abolish, Defund: The Police
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The protests in the US against police violence - and their globalisation - promp...
Excerpt: /137/ Reading Club: War, Technology, The State
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Club episodes are only available to patrons $10+. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast This month we discuss Wolfgang Streeck's reading of Fri...