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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 1d

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 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?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 5d

Loving the new Taylor Swift album...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 5d

Listen to Episode 367 — Don’t Pay Them Back: buff.ly/bBeuYoA

Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 5d

📚 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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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 6d

Is Trump really a Christian Nationalist or a Nationalist Classic?

Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 7d

If September was about decay and collapse, October asks: what rises from the rubble?

Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 7d

What to make of the transnational nationalism of the Right and the mirroring of the Left's worst tendencies?

In our newsletter, we ponder this and look back at global politics in September and prepare a new Bungaverse for October.

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 8d

Then for Patre*n subscribers, George, @Alex__1789 and @ryan_zickgraf discuss the global radical right and whether Charlie Kirk's killing was its "George Floyd moment" : 🎧 buff.ly/E9hPqek

Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 8d

🎉 NEW EPISODE 🎉

w/ guest @GCasaroes on Bolsonaro's sentencing, Trump's tariffs on Brazil, and the bailout of Milei.

🗣️ Is Bolsonarismo the closest to MAGA among the global radical right?

🗣️ Will a "Populist International Order" follow the Liberal International Order?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 9d

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 9d

🔥 NEW EPISODE 🔥

The Reading Club is back with a discussion on Göran Therborn's Dreams and Nightmares of the World’s Middle Classes.

🗣️ What politics do the middle classes generate? Is the middle-class dream increasingly only a dream?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 22d

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

If we're all distracting ourselves to death, as Neil Postman called it, should we at least do it with King of the Hill?

Our conversation with @ryan_zickgraf on the power of the "boob tube."

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 25d

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 25d

Here's Orlando Patterson on the legacy of slavery that identitarians don't want to talk about.

Patterson was our guest this week to talk about his recent book: The Paradox of Freedom

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 27d

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 27d

Jimmy Carter's "I believe in the sanctity of ethnic neighborhoods" speech was the precursor to the modern identity politics movement.

Orlando Patterson says now we get Trump's embrace of white ethnic identity

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 27d

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 27d

Jimmy Carter's "I believe in the sanctity of ethnic neighborhoods" speech was the precursor to the modern identity politics movement.

Orlando Patterson says now we get Trump's embrace of white ethnic identity

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hey kids, here's a handy guide to the U.S. Congress...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · Sep 3

📚 FROM THE ARCHIVES 📚

With Keir Starmer insisting Britain is not broken, revisit our 2020 discussion of the stakes involved in such claims. What is decline? Is it relative or absolute? When did it start?

David Edgerton explains…

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