Varn Vlog

No Royal Road - Neo-Feudalism, Or The Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism, part 3

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed an...

Ralph Leonard on Misunderstanding Stalingrad, Internationalism, and Decolonization

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer who writes on ...

Stefan Bertram Lee on Contemporary Capitalist Stagnation in Society and Geopolitics

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jason Myles is a musician, writer, and host of the This i...

Ben Burgis on the Legacy of G.A. Cohen

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ben Burgis is an adjunct philosophy professor at Morehous...

Max Alvarez on Working Class People During the Pandemic

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This episode is a co-production with Strange Matters Maga...

Jason Myles on Politics as Branding

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jason Myles is a musician, writer, and host of the This i...

Adnan Husain on the life and times of Ibn Khaldun, Part 2

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is part 2 of 2.Adnan Husain is both a Medieval Europ...

Adnan Husain on the life and times of Ibn Khaldun, Part 1

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is part 1 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval Euro...

Jeremy Gross on the Use and Abuse of Cybernetic Theory

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jeremy Gross is a cybernetic tikkun olamunist living nort...

Anton Jägar Robert Putnam in the Era of Posting

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Anton Jäger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic...

P. H. Higgin's on John Levi Martin's The Explanation of Social Action

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

P.H. Higgins is a long-time friend of the show, the co-host of the Radical Thoughts Podcast, and a scholar on social theory.  We discuss the work of ...

Susanna Kleeman on Love, Desire, and Other Fatal Strategies

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Susanna Kleeman (@susannakleeman)  is a writer from Lond...

No Royal Road - Neo-Feudalism, Or The Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism, part 2

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed an...

Special Episode with Nicolas D. Villarreal on Stocks, Start-Ups, and the FED

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on politica...

Andrew Hartman on Marx in America

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State ...

Daniel Bessner on Imperialism Realism and the Impasse of the Left

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Daniel Bessner is currently an Associate Professor in Int...

Eric Daitser on Russian Cultural Production and Stopping Xenophobia

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and hos...

Sudip Bhattacharya on Inter-racial Solidarity and Organizing

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Sudip Bhattacharya is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers Univer...

Todd McGowan on Right and Left Enjoyment

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Todd McGowan is a Professor of English at the University ...

Sam Kangarloo on Modern Monetary Theory and the Nation State

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Sam Kangarloo is a Modern Monetary Theory, aka MMT, Subje...

Rob of the Right Podcast Discussion the Recuperation of Populism

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Rob is the host of the Right Podcast. We talk about the m...

Nadim of 99 Zu Eins on the Limits of Parliamentary Socialism

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nadim is a co-host of 99 Zu Eins (Note: episodes are in E...

Jonny Meade on Infamous Legacy of Lydon LaRouche

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jonny Meade is a former congressional candidate, SPA memb...

Vivak Soni on Dialectics, Genomics, and Biology

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Vivak Soni is a post-doctoral fellow in population geneti...

No Royal Road - Neo-Feudalism, Or The Fuzzy Edges of Capitalism, part 1

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcaster, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed an...

Eric Draitser on the complications of Russia, Ukraine, and the contemporary left

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Eric Draitser is an independent political analyst and hos...

Adam and Tish Turl on Born Again Labor Museum, Radicalism and Art

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Adam Turl and Tish Turl are both activists and artists wh...

Matt Lech of Left Reckoning on Understanding Rural Politics and Socialist Strategy

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Matt Lech is a producer for @Majority Report and a co-hos...

Alexander Prähauser on Category Theory, Math, and Hegelian Dialectics

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Alexander Prähauser is an artist and mathematician livin...

Chris Wright on the Myth of American Moderation

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Chris Wright is a historian and socialist,  the author o...

Nicolas D Villarreal on Worker Inquiry, Economic Research, and Casper Forums

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on politica...

Cyber Dandy on American Anti Communism, Part 2

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Today we are talking to Cyber Dandy,  who blogs at Cyber...

Gabriel Winant on Barbara Ehrenreich and the Changing Nature of Class

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Gabriel Winant is an Assistant Professor of History at th...

The crisis of the left in India with Spencer Leonard, Dwaipayan Sen, and Atiya Singh

02 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Spencer returns to the show to begin the first of our ser...

Zhala Taghi-Zada on Schizophrenia, Mental Health, Stigma, and the Law

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is Strange Matters and Varn Vlog collaboration. Zhal...

Mike Gouldhawke on Land as a Social Relation

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Mike Gouldhawke is a Métis & Cree writer, whose fami...

Chris of Regrettable Century on the German Conservative Revolution

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Chris is a friend of the show and co-host of Regrettable ...

Andrei Migunov on Math, Cybernetics, System Theory and the Left

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Andrei Migunov ( @FelixCowsdorff ) teaches computer scien...

M.C. Toussaint on Green Socialism and Left Media

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.M.C. Toussaint is a producer for This Is Revolution and h...

Alex Hochuli Returns to Talk about Lula's Victory and the Brazilian Election

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast  and co-author o...

Beatrice Alder-Bolton On Health Communism and Disability

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-host of Death Panel podca...

Daniel Tutt Interrogates Nietzsche

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psy...

Tim DiMuzio on Interest Rates, Inflation, and Carbon Capital

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This episode is part of a partnership between Varn Vlog a...

Conan Neutron Returns to Talk About Culture Now

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Conan Neutron (@conanneutron) of Protonic Reversal podcas...

Jason Myles of This is Revolution returns to Woodstock 99 and Nu Metal, Part 2

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We discuss an article by Jason Myles on the legacy of Woo...

Colin Dodds, author of Pharoni, on his novel and post-covid literature

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Colin Dodds is a writer with several books to his name, i...

Daniel Tutt on Lasch and Psychoanalysis

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psy...

Ralf Ruckus on the Communist Road to the Capitalism

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ralf Ruckus is the author of Communist Road to Capitalism...

Julian Assele on Wallerstein and World Systems

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Julian Assele ( @Catholicclod) is a writer and researcher...

Carolyn J Eichner on Women and the Paris Commune

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.CAROLYN J. EICHNER teaches in the Departments of History ...

Elijah Emery on Christopher Lasch and the Contemporary Left, part 2

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Elijah Emery is a Cornell student researching Christopher...

Djene Bajalan on the Kurds, Iran, and Responsible Geopolitical Commentary

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Djene  Bajalan is a historian of the Middle East special...

Elijah Emery on Christopher Lasch and the Contemporary Left, part 1

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Elijah Emery is a Cornell student researching Christopher...

Nicholas Scott on the Chilean Constitutional Situation

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicholas  C  Scott is a PhD candidate in Latin American...

Brad Wydra of Touring News on Bank Bail Outs and the Federal Reserve Flailing

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Brad Wydra is the host of Touring News. He covers climate...

Julian Assele on the Paradox of Christopher Lasch

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Julian Assele ( @Catholicclod) is a writer and researcher...

Spencer A Leonard on Marx's journalism, Bonapartism, and Imperialism

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Spencer Leonard was the editor of Sublation magazine at t...

Jason Myles of TIR on Woodstock, Nu Metal, and Politics, Part 1

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We discuss an article by Jason Myles on the legacy of Woo...

Nick Marcil on Crises in Education

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nick Marcil is an education policy activist and organizer...

Sean Capener on Medieval Money, Usury, and Origins of Modern Racial Thinking

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

\Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Sean Capener is a post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth. His...

Amelia Davenport on Mary Marcy and Cybernetics

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Amelia Davenport ( @davenportofcall) is a writer, podcast...

Joel Wainwright co-author of Climate Leviathan about Possible Futures

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Joel Wainwright is a professor in the Department of Geogr...

Cooper and Taylor from Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour on Felix Guattari

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Cooper Cherry and Taylor Adkins from Machinic Unconscious...

R.C. Roberts on Wilfred Bion and Ideology

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.R.C. Roberts is the author of ferocia amini and is a semi...

Glenn McDorman of Claytemple Media on the Weird

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Glenn McDorman is one of the founders of Claytemple Media...

Amogh Sahu and the Promise of Marxism, Part 2: The Spectre of Lukacs

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Amogh Sahu was my co-host on the defunct Symptomatic Redn...

Elizabeth Sandifer on Sci-Fi and Neo-Reaction

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Elizabeth Sandifer is the author of Neoreaction a Basilis...

Amogh Sahu and the Promise of Marxism, Part 1: The Pod Cycle

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Amogh Sahu was my co-host on the defunct Symptomatic Redn...

Stephan Hammel on the Marxist Conception of Class

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of the...

Max From Lines Going Down on Economic Information and Chaos

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Varn Vlog Patron's Only: Max from Lines Going Down. ...

Doug Greene on Harrington and Limits of Democratic Socialism Today

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Doug Greene is the author of "A Failure of Vision: M...

Ted Reese on the Legacy of Henryk Grossman and Breakdown Theory

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This week we talk to Ted Reese about the importance of He...

David Griscom on Climate Change, Texas, and Limits of Liberal Responses

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.David Griscom is a writer, podcaster, producer, and co-ho...

Jeff from Morning Comrade on The Paradoxes of Teacher's Unions

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jeff is a teacher in Jefferson Parish, a Union member, an...

Jeff from Morning Comrade on Political Frustrations

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jeff is a teacher in Jefferson Parish, a Union member, an...

Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories on Poetry and Politics

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jonathan Penton is the editor of Unlikely Stories and Unl...

John and Kelsey's Notes From Labor Notes

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John H. and Kelsey Tanabe Walker join us to talk about th...

Shalon Van Tine on Woman Directors

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Shalon van Tine, a cultural historian who is a Ph.D. cand...

Nicholas C Scott on the legacy of Cordones Industriales

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicholas  C  Scott is a PhD candidate in Latin American...

(100th Episode) Kane Reid of Socialist Legacy on Marx and Contradictions.

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Kane Reid is the host of Socialist Legacy.  We discuss h...

Scott Ferguson on the Ideologies of Austerity and the Communities of Care

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Scott Ferguson (@videotroph) is an associate professor of...

Freddie deBeor on the Crisis of the Democratic Mind

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Freddie and I discuss the tactical mistakes of the Democr...

Andrew McWhinney on the Legacy of Baudrillard and New Ways to Think on The Left

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew McWhinney is a writer, editor, and organizer. He writes and edits for Negation Magazine.  We begin by discussing the legacy of Jean Baudrillar...

Ben Burgis on the Complicated Legacy of Christopher Hitchens

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ben and I discuss his work on the life and legacy on Ch...

Nicolas D Villarreal on Financialization and Productivity

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicolas D Villarreal is palladiummag contributor. Author ...

Dr. Victor Devinatz on Communism and American Labor Unions from 1920s to 1940s

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Dr. Victor Devinatz is a Distinguished Professor in the C...

Ben Lewis from Marxism Translated on Second International Marxist Texts

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.I talk to Ben Lewis from Marxism Translated on the Second...

John and Shannon on the Dual Power Gathering and Mutual Aid

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John and Shannon are both organizers of the Dual Power Ga...

Jeff from Morning Comrade on Education Crisis and Unions, Part 1

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our Patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jeff is a teacher in Jefferson Parish, a Union member, an...

Sudip Bhattacharya on Solidarity, Intellectuals, and Activism

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Sudip Bhattacharya is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers Univer...

Jules Taylor of No Easy Answers on the Left after Biden

07 Jun 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jules Taylor of No Easy Answers comes on to talk to me ab...

Patrick Toole From the Lefty Book Club On Political Education

30 May 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.In today's episode, we talk to Patrick Toole.  Patr...

Steve Mann and John Michael Colon on FOREX and the Legal History of Money

23 May 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John Michael Colon and Steve Mann are editors of Strange ...

Dr. Clyde Barrow on the Dangerous Classes

19 May 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.In today's episode, we talk to Dr. Clyde Barrow on l...

Dr. Rebecca Karl on China's Revolutions

16 May 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Rebecca E. Karl teaches History at New York University. S...

Ikoi Hireo on the Fracturing of the Care Labor Force

12 May 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ikoi Hireo is a substance dependency disorder counselor, ...

Steve Mann of Strange Matters on Understanding Inflation

09 May 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Steve Mann, a member of the Strange Matters coops, will d...

Matt Christman on labor struggle and the current malaise

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.In honor of May Day,  Chapo Trap House's and CushVl...

Dongping Han on the Unknown Cultural Revolution and It's Implications

28 Apr 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Professor Dongping Han was born and raised in rural Shand...

Daniel of What is Politics on Why Material Conditions Matter, Part 3: School House Rock

25 Apr 2022

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Daniel is the host of "What Is Politics"   an...