Varn Vlog
Episodes
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part 5 (With Chris and Jason of the Regrettable Century)
20 Apr 2022
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...
Cyber Dandy on Anticommunism in North America, Part 1
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Jared is the author of Cyber Dandy. We talk about anti-c...
Kim Panagos and Graete on Lessons from the Fog of War
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Panagos is a doctoral candidate finishing his dissertation on the concept of the "Fog of War" and Graete is a streamer and political the...
Sam Kangarloo on MMT, Inflation, and coming Precarious Politics
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Kangarloo is an MMT Subject Matter Expert, Future Systems Designer, and Program/Project Management Consultant based in Massachusetts. We discuss...
Mir Bal on the Sweden and the limits of Swedish Social Democracy
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mir Bal is a social worker and leftist in Sweden. He was a co-host of "For a Lost Cause," a Swedish Marxist podcast. We discuss the h...
Greg Belvedere on Worker Autonomy, Co-ops, and More
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Belvedere is a writer and sometimes YouTuber who is very interested in the problems of ecology and net-energy expenditure. We discuss how much mo...
Parker McQueeny on Left Unity in the DSA now
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Parker and I will discuss the situation in the DSA after the Bowman affair and the loss of nearly 1/5 of the membership since the DSA convention. We m...
Dwayne Monroe on Materialist Technological Criticism
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dwayne Monroe is the author of Computational Impacts and a technologist living in Europe. We talk about the materialist understanding of technology,...
John Michael Colon and Steve Mann of Strange Matters on Forex and the Limits of MMT
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Michael Colon and Steve Mann are editors of Strange Matters magazine. We discuss the limits of the popular versions of Modern Monetary Theory, ...
Daniel of What is Politics on Why Material Conditions Matter, Part 2: Once Upon a Time In the Forest
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel is the host of "What Is Politics" and we discuss the categorizations of hunter-gathers, conditions of agricultural adjustment, ...
Daniel of "What is Politics" on Why Material Conditions Matter, Part 1: Graber's Mistakes
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel is the host of "What Is Politics" and we discuss the ideas of David Graeber, David Wrengrow, the Limitations of Occupy Wall-stree...
Alex Gendler on the Ukraine Crisis and the Complications of Internationalism
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Gendler is a writer and content producer in NYC. He is also a leftist man-about-town. He is also a Ukrainian-American from a Russian speaking f...
Roxy Hall on The Complications of Gender
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Roxy Hall is a writer and activist living in Australia. We discuss Ten Theses on the Gender Question and the complications of left views of Gender.Cre...
Kuba Wrzesneiwski on the Ukraine crisis and pressures on the global order
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kuba returns to talk about darker things. While I have avoided talking directly about the conflict as I have personal friends on both sides fro...
Dr. Harun Yilmaz on the Spectres of the National Question
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Harun Yilmaz is Central Asia Research Forum Series academic editor at Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. He is a regional expert on history, na...
Kuba Wrzesneiwski on the necessity of sound political economy and realist analysis
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Death Star Middle Manager Returns! We talk about the necessity of a realist view of states in left geopolitical analysis. (There was some audi...
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part 4 (With Chris and Jason of the Regrettable Century)
23 Feb 2022
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...
1Dime on the interaction of Marxism and Modern Monetary Theory
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
1Dime is the host of 1Dime and 1Dime Radio where he discusses and attempts to popularize leftist political and economic theories. You can support 1...
Stephan Hammel on Socialist Aesthetics, Proletkult, and the problems of the Frankfurt School
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of the Measures Taken. We discuss Alexander Bogdanov, various incarnations of Proletkult, the polit...
Max Seijo on Critical Humanities and Modern Monetary Theory
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Seijo is currently working on his doctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is a co-host of Money on the Left and Superstructure podcast. While...
R.C. Roberts on the Legacy of Wilfred Bion
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
R.C. Roberts is the author of ferocia amini and is a semi-autodidactic scholar of existentialism and psychoanalysis, we spoke about the legacy of Wilf...
Anton Jäger on the Situation in the EU
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Jäger is a scholar of populism and intellectual history living in Brussels, Belgium. He is also a freelance writer on the left and European pol...
Alex Hochuli On the End of the End of History in South America
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast and co-author of the "End of the End of History." We discuss the left's covid response, the s...
Timothy Schatz on the Heidegger and the Left
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Schatz, a graduate student at Boston College and former intern at Zero Books, comes on to talk about the complicated legacy of Martin Heidegge...
J.G. Michaels of Parallax Views on The Current Confusion
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show and prior stream guest, J.G. Michaels, comes on to talk about the current state of politics. J.G. is the host of Parallax Views. ...
Bradley Tuck from Exploding Appendix on ambiguities of Politics and Art
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bradly Tuck is the editor and founder of Exploding Appendix, we talk about art, culture, politics, and the tensions between the various subjects. Th...
Daniel Tutt On Psychoanalysis and the Politics of Liberation
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. Founder of Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politic...
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part 3 (With Chris and Jason of the Regrettable Century)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While the introduction music is that of Varn Vlog on this podcast, this series will be simultaneously released on both the Varn Vlog podcast feed and ...
Djene Bajalan on the Context of the Kurdish Situation
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan is a historian of the Middle East specializing the rise of nationalism and the evolution of the Kurdish question. He completed ...
Stephan Hammel on the Legacy of First Two Internationals
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year. We are going to start with a long one. Stephan Hammel is a scholar and podcaster, co-host of the Measures Taken. We discuss the l...
R.C. Roberts on Secularization, Existentialism, and Psychoanalysis
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
R.C. Roberts is the author of ferocia amini and is a semi-autodidactic scholar of existentialism and psychoanalysis, we are aiming to talk about the u...
Eric Olander on the complexity of the China-Africa Relationship
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Africa Project, an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China’...
Ed From a New Conservation on the importance of analyzing Imperialism
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ed from a New Conservation comes over and we do a joint show on the developments in imperialism, the importance of the analysis of imperialism, the le...
Sean K.B. of Antifada on "Specters of Bernie"
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
First, let's credit Maxximilian Seijo (@MaxSeijo)for the title. Sean KB of Antifada comes to talk with me about a bunch of the problems of the ...
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part 2 (With Chris and Jason of the Regrettable Century)
30 Nov 2021
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...
The Culture Crew Discusses Network (1976) and the Media Malaise
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This bonus episode is part of our Patreon podcast. C. Der...
Conan Neutron on the Music, Politics, and the Cultural Zeitgeist
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Conan Neutron (@conanneutron) is a musician and podcast...
Karthik Purushothaman and Marcus of Left Flank Vets discuss the Politics of Music Now
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We talk to Karthik Purushothaman and Marcus of Left Flank...
Ed Simon on the Radicalism of the Renaissance
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We talk to Ed Simon, author of many books, including Pr...
Kaiser Kuo on US-China Relations and the Red New Deal
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.We talk the Kaiser Kuo of the Sinica podcast and Sup Chin...
Scott Horton on the waning of the American Empire
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. We talk the Scott Horton of Anti-War Radio and the Scott...
Jim Davis on Religious Studies and Political Economy
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jim Davis is a student of world religions (focus on Shia ...
Forrest Miller on Politics, Movies, and the Cultural Zeitgeist
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Forrest Miller is a co-host of Movie Night Extravaganza. ...
No Royal Road- As Old Worlds End and New Ones Begin: Part I (With Chris and Jason of the Regrettable Century)
18 Oct 2021
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...
Jared of Cyber Dandy on Existentialism
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jared is the author of Cyber Dandy. He is a long-time st...
Dan Melo discusses the Borderlands
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Dan Melo is the author of Borderlines(Zer0 Books, 2021). ...
Dr. Pouya Alimagham on Iranian History, Middle Eastern Politics, and American Imperialism
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle ...
Doug Enaa Greene on Harrington and Socialism in the Biden Moment
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Doug Enaa Greene is the author of Communist Insurgent: Bl...
Kenzo Shibata on the Punk Rock, Politics, and Generational Shifts
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Kenzo Shibata is the host of Meet the Left, organizer, an...
Greg Belvedere on Ecology, Systems, and Crisis
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Greg Belvedere is a writer and sometimes youtuber who is ...
Erika Whelan on the Left Communism
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Erika Whelan discusses the history and functions of left ...
Adam Ray Adkins on The Acid Aesthetic and Left Horizons
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Adam Ray Adkins is the co-host of the Acid Left. We discu...
Mike Watson on Memeing Through Hotel Grand Abyss
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Mike Watson is the author of Can the Left Learn to Meme? ...
Sam Shain on revolutionizing education in the 21th Century
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
lease support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Sam Shain and I discuss media literacy, critical thinking,...
Political Payne on perils of California and the decline of local journalism
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This week to Joe Payne about the situation in California,...
Ted Reese on the Legacy of Grossman and Precarity of the Future
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This week to Ted Reese about the importance of Henryk Gro...
Colin Drumm on Why One Can't With Kant
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Colin Drumm (@drumm_colin) is PhD Candidate in History of...
Arnold from Fight Like an Animal On Humans on the Crust of the Earth
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Arnold Schroder is the host of Fight Like an Animal. We b...
John Michael Colon on Shifting Nature of Media and Politics
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John Michael Colon is a writer and libertarian socialist ...
Re-reading Re-Reading Wolfe with James and Craig
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.I talk to James and Craig of the Re-Reading Wolfe Podcast...
J. Andrew World on the joys of film and doing art in political spaces
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.J. Andrew World is a comic and sketch artist who does wor...
The Structuralism Debates with Nicolas Villareal and Varn, part 1
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is the first of a Patreon series of streams: we are ...
Mike and Bori of Red Star Over Asia on Leftism in South Korea and Asia
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Mike and Bori from Red Star Over Asia podcast talk about ...
Nia Cola on Biden, the Left, and MMT
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nia Cola is a heterodox economist and proponent of MMT. S...
Natalie Smith on the MMT Humanities and the political situation in Chile
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Natalie Smith is a co-host of the Superstructure podcast....
Cordelia of Reel Abstractions on the Mysteries of Value and the Value of Science
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Cordelia is many things but one of them is a writer and a...
Camilo Gomez on the Delayed Victory of Castillo in Peru
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Camilo Gomez is freelance writer and podcast host based i...
Daniel Bessner on Imperialist realism and the international order
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Daniel Bessner discusses liberal imperialism, imperialist...
Ben Burgis on America's and Capitalism's Tendency to Cancel
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Ben Burgis is a regular contributor to Jacobin and other ...
Zara and Sher from Facing Autonomy on Facing the left in 2021
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Zara and Sher are from the Facing Autonomy podcast. Zar...
Jason and Pascal from This is Revolution on Black Leadership from Cruse to Obama
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Jason Myles is a musician in Bitter Lake and podcaster ou...
Alex Gendler on the Hoarding of Virtue and Much Ado About the PMC
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Alex Gendler is a writer and content producer in NYC. H...
From the Patreon Vaults: Former People on Films of Memory
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is podcast regulars and former Former People squad, ...
Nicole and Hugh of Run With Us Podcast on communes and leftism in Canada and the US
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Nicole and Hugh of the Run with Us podcast talk about sta...
John and Madison of the Fresh Kill Podcast on the Semi-Parmed Kind of Life
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.John and Madison host the Fresh Kill's podcast: a so...
Alex Grant on the future of Trotskyism, the history of the IMT, and Leftism in Canada
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Alex Grant is the editor of Editor at Fightback, http://m...
Freddie deBoer on the limits of education
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Freddie deBoer is the author of The Cult of Smart and mai...
Chris and Jason from Regrettable Century on Revolutionary Pessimism after "Bern-Out"
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Chris and Jason are two of the four hosts of the Regretta...
P.H. Higgins on the Legacy of Autonomia and Operaismo
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.P.H. Higgins is an editor at Former People, a co-host of ...
Andres Bernal on Left MTT, International Monetary Policy, and Latin American Politics
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Andres Bernal (@andresintheory) is Associate Editor of Mo...
Kuba Wrzesneiwski on the realities of the US foreign policy elites
22 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Kuba Wrzesneiwski is an independent foreign policy consul...
Nightmare Masterclass On Folk Horror, Reactionary Horror, The Left (Teaser)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.Dave from Nightmare Masterclass talk about horror, folk h...
A.M. Gittlitz on Posadism, BLM, and the specter of communization
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.A.M. Gittlitz and C. Derick Varn discuss the historical d...
Ross Wolfe on "Bern-Out" and the situation of the Left
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ross Wolfe and C. Derick Varn discuss the situation of t...
Matt McManus on a Left-wing understanding of "The Other Side"
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Please support our patreon. For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Matt McManus discusses the division within conservatism,...