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The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. Weekly episodes on the crises of our times.
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🙋 What exactly do we mean by political legitimacy?
We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker
We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🙋 What exactly do we mean by political legitimacy?
We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker
We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker
The irony of progressive education is that it actually shuts people in their place rather than open doors.
—@varnvlog
—@varnvlog
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The irony of progressive education is that it actually shuts people in their place rather than open doors.
—@varnvlog
—@varnvlog
🤔 The problem with a post-literate society is that we don't have a model of an oral culture without memory.
If the internet has fried our brain, how do we go back?
Listen to @varnvlog on the newest Bungacast!
If the internet has fried our brain, how do we go back?
Listen to @varnvlog on the newest Bungacast!
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🤔 The problem with a post-literate society is that we don't have a model of an oral culture without memory.
If the internet has fried our brain, how do we go back?
Listen to @varnvlog on the newest Bungacast!
If the internet has fried our brain, how do we go back?
Listen to @varnvlog on the newest Bungacast!
Time is a flat circle
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Time is a flat circle
🔥 SPECIAL EPISODE 🔥
Talks given by contributing editor @CLiuAnon and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style.
Richard Hofstatder’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” + The Paranoid Style in British Politics + "Zombies Clowns and Gangsters"
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Talks given by contributing editor @CLiuAnon and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style.
Richard Hofstatder’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” + The Paranoid Style in British Politics + "Zombies Clowns and Gangsters"
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November 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🔥 SPECIAL EPISODE 🔥
Talks given by contributing editor @CLiuAnon and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style.
Richard Hofstatder’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” + The Paranoid Style in British Politics + "Zombies Clowns and Gangsters"
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Talks given by contributing editor @CLiuAnon and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style.
Richard Hofstatder’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” + The Paranoid Style in British Politics + "Zombies Clowns and Gangsters"
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"If we want to have a society that's flourshing, that society needs to be equal but it also needs to be excellent."
Dustin Guastella on art and culture after postmodernism—when no one can say if Beethoven is better than Taylor Swift.
Dustin Guastella on art and culture after postmodernism—when no one can say if Beethoven is better than Taylor Swift.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"If we want to have a society that's flourshing, that society needs to be equal but it also needs to be excellent."
Dustin Guastella on art and culture after postmodernism—when no one can say if Beethoven is better than Taylor Swift.
Dustin Guastella on art and culture after postmodernism—when no one can say if Beethoven is better than Taylor Swift.
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
We discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar w/ Dino Guastella.
🗣️ Does Mills' account of the “economic psychology” of the White Collar worker still ring true today?
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We discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar w/ Dino Guastella.
🗣️ Does Mills' account of the “economic psychology” of the White Collar worker still ring true today?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
We discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar w/ Dino Guastella.
🗣️ Does Mills' account of the “economic psychology” of the White Collar worker still ring true today?
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We discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar w/ Dino Guastella.
🗣️ Does Mills' account of the “economic psychology” of the White Collar worker still ring true today?
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🗣️ Silicon Valley is attaching itself to the state like a leech says @g_shullenberger
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🗣️ Silicon Valley is attaching itself to the state like a leech says @g_shullenberger
📚 FROM THE ARCHIVES 📚
Revisit our conversation w/ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser on the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind. The past really does not go away!
bungacast.podbean.com/e/147-the-pa...
Revisit our conversation w/ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser on the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind. The past really does not go away!
bungacast.podbean.com/e/147-the-pa...
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📚 FROM THE ARCHIVES 📚
Revisit our conversation w/ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser on the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind. The past really does not go away!
bungacast.podbean.com/e/147-the-pa...
Revisit our conversation w/ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser on the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind. The past really does not go away!
bungacast.podbean.com/e/147-the-pa...
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
w/ @g_shullenberger on free speech, the tech right, and politicisation and the antichrist.
🗣️ Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"?
🗣️ Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?
w/ @g_shullenberger on free speech, the tech right, and politicisation and the antichrist.
🗣️ Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"?
🗣️ Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
w/ @g_shullenberger on free speech, the tech right, and politicisation and the antichrist.
🗣️ Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"?
🗣️ Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?
w/ @g_shullenberger on free speech, the tech right, and politicisation and the antichrist.
🗣️ Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"?
🗣️ Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?
More “adventures in de-socialisation” in this month's recap.
Maybe society really does need to be defended—but for real this time?
📖 buff.ly/DBN0vym
Maybe society really does need to be defended—but for real this time?
📖 buff.ly/DBN0vym
October 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
More “adventures in de-socialisation” in this month's recap.
Maybe society really does need to be defended—but for real this time?
📖 buff.ly/DBN0vym
Maybe society really does need to be defended—but for real this time?
📖 buff.ly/DBN0vym
If enlightenment means disenchantment—maybe we need some form of re-enchantment?
—@alex_1789
—@alex_1789
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If enlightenment means disenchantment—maybe we need some form of re-enchantment?
—@alex_1789
—@alex_1789
🧵 WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD 🌍
We still build colossal temples, mountains, and monuments — structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. 👇
We still build colossal temples, mountains, and monuments — structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. 👇
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🧵 WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD 🌍
We still build colossal temples, mountains, and monuments — structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. 👇
We still build colossal temples, mountains, and monuments — structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. 👇
Contemporary wonders and monuments do exist — they just might not be very beautiful.
— @pptamburelli
— @pptamburelli
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Contemporary wonders and monuments do exist — they just might not be very beautiful.
— @pptamburelli
— @pptamburelli
🔥 NEW EPISODE 🔥
w/ @pptamburelli
Everyone is still making modern monuments but the new wonders of the world aren't so wonderful.
Why?
w/ @pptamburelli
Everyone is still making modern monuments but the new wonders of the world aren't so wonderful.
Why?
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🔥 NEW EPISODE 🔥
w/ @pptamburelli
Everyone is still making modern monuments but the new wonders of the world aren't so wonderful.
Why?
w/ @pptamburelli
Everyone is still making modern monuments but the new wonders of the world aren't so wonderful.
Why?
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Seeing France through 4 moments w/ @lyrafred
🇫🇷 1995 – The last moment of classic class struggle;
🇫🇷 2005 – Riots in the banlieues
🇫🇷 2015 – Islamist terror
🇫🇷 2025 – government collapse.
Seeing France through 4 moments w/ @lyrafred
🇫🇷 1995 – The last moment of classic class struggle;
🇫🇷 2005 – Riots in the banlieues
🇫🇷 2015 – Islamist terror
🇫🇷 2025 – government collapse.
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Seeing France through 4 moments w/ @lyrafred
🇫🇷 1995 – The last moment of classic class struggle;
🇫🇷 2005 – Riots in the banlieues
🇫🇷 2015 – Islamist terror
🇫🇷 2025 – government collapse.
Seeing France through 4 moments w/ @lyrafred
🇫🇷 1995 – The last moment of classic class struggle;
🇫🇷 2005 – Riots in the banlieues
🇫🇷 2015 – Islamist terror
🇫🇷 2025 – government collapse.
The era of state capitalism is here, says @IliasAlami, the question now is how it's going to develop.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The era of state capitalism is here, says @IliasAlami, the question now is how it's going to develop.
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Is the era of state capitalism upon us? We're joined by @IliasAlami to talk about the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion.
💬 Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but is global?
💬 How did globalisation and stagnation combine to give birth to it?
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Is the era of state capitalism upon us? We're joined by @IliasAlami to talk about the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion.
💬 Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but is global?
💬 How did globalisation and stagnation combine to give birth to it?
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October 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Is the era of state capitalism upon us? We're joined by @IliasAlami to talk about the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion.
💬 Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but is global?
💬 How did globalisation and stagnation combine to give birth to it?
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Is the era of state capitalism upon us? We're joined by @IliasAlami to talk about the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion.
💬 Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but is global?
💬 How did globalisation and stagnation combine to give birth to it?
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Are urban spaces like expressways an abomination, the new nature, or somewhere in between?
We discuss with Richard J Williams, author of The Expressway World
We discuss with Richard J Williams, author of The Expressway World
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Are urban spaces like expressways an abomination, the new nature, or somewhere in between?
We discuss with Richard J Williams, author of The Expressway World
We discuss with Richard J Williams, author of The Expressway World
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
We're taking a road trip w/ Richard J Williams to talk about
his new book, *The Expressway World*
🚗 How have cities adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century?
We're taking a road trip w/ Richard J Williams to talk about
his new book, *The Expressway World*
🚗 How have cities adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century?
October 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
We're taking a road trip w/ Richard J Williams to talk about
his new book, *The Expressway World*
🚗 How have cities adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century?
We're taking a road trip w/ Richard J Williams to talk about
his new book, *The Expressway World*
🚗 How have cities adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century?
Loving the new Taylor Swift album...
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Loving the new Taylor Swift album...
📚 From the Archives 📚
Trump wants to bail out Argentina's Javier Milei. What are the politics around bailouts and defaults – in Argentina and beyond?
Listen to our episode with Jerome Roos on sovereign debt.
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Trump wants to bail out Argentina's Javier Milei. What are the politics around bailouts and defaults – in Argentina and beyond?
Listen to our episode with Jerome Roos on sovereign debt.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
📚 From the Archives 📚
Trump wants to bail out Argentina's Javier Milei. What are the politics around bailouts and defaults – in Argentina and beyond?
Listen to our episode with Jerome Roos on sovereign debt.
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Trump wants to bail out Argentina's Javier Milei. What are the politics around bailouts and defaults – in Argentina and beyond?
Listen to our episode with Jerome Roos on sovereign debt.
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Is Trump really a Christian Nationalist or a Nationalist Classic?
October 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Is Trump really a Christian Nationalist or a Nationalist Classic?