Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUNLOCKED: /419/ Who Owns Power ft. Fred Stafford
Episode 443
On the electricity grid and the institutions involved.
[Episode originally released only to subscribers on 20 June 2024. Join us at patreon.com/bunga…
1 year, 10 months ago
/435/ Reading Club: Stalin's General – Winning WWII (sample)
Episode 442
On Geoffrey Roberts’ 2013 biography of Field Marshal Zhukov.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Who was the Soviet general and architect of Soviet victory on the Ea…
1 year, 10 months ago
/434/ Bodiless Bodies ft. Matthew Thompson & Jonny Gordon-Farleigh (sample)
Episode 441
On the NGO-isation of the state.
[Patreon Exclusive]
Researchers and writers Matthew Thompson and Jonny Gordon-Farleigh join us to discuss their rece…
1 year, 10 months ago
/433/ Aufhebonus Bonus – August 2024 (sample)
Episode 440
On your questions & criticisms.
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We respond with comments on episodes 420 to 432 and various other points you wanted to us to disc…
1 year, 10 months ago
/432/ Median Left Thought and its Monsters ft. Ben Burgis (sample)
Episode 439
On Naomi Klein & Naomi Wolf and "political diagonalism"
Episode in association with Damage magazine. Patreon Exclusive.
Ben Burgis talks to Alex and …
1 year, 10 months ago
/431/ The Myth of Monolithic China ft. Lee Jones & Shahar Hameiri
Episode 438
On the structure of the Chinese state and its external relations.
[Patreon Exclusive: for the full episode, go to patreon.com/bungacast]
We welcome b…
1 year, 10 months ago
/430/ Welcome to the Tourist Age ft. Marco d'Eramo
Episode 437
On the tourist city, the tourist industry, and its critics.
Renowned Italian journalist Marco d'Eramo joins us to talk about his wide-ranging inquiry…
1 year, 11 months ago
/429/ Reading Club: Treason of the Intellectuals (sample)
Episode 436
On Julien Benda's famous 1927 work.
[Patreon Exclusive]
We continue on the theme of 'Intellectuals and the Public' by discussing the often cited by l…
1 year, 11 months ago
/428/ The First Poaster (Vice) President? ft. Ryan Zickgraf
Episode 435
On JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, and arresting decline.
[For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast]
We discuss the Netflix adaptation of vice-presiden…
1 year, 11 months ago
/427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
Episode 434
On emotional capitalism + Israeli politics.
Renowned sociologist Eva Illouz joins us to talk about her recent book on the emotions of populism, and h…
1 year, 11 months ago