Podcast Episodes
Back to Search/548/ Post-Legitimate Society ft. Will Charles
Episode 563
On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology.
Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to jus…
2 months, 1 week ago
/547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley
Episode 562
On political capitalism and divided workers.
Sociology professor at UC Berkeley, Dylan Riley, talks to Alex and Lee about economic stagnation, the st…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
/546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger
Episode 561
On postliberalism, MacIntyre and Gray.
How was the 1950s "end of ideology" (Bell, Lipset) different from the Fukuyaman 1990s "end of history"?
Is…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
/545/ Orbanism without Orban: the New European Centre? ft. Szilard Pap
Episode 560
On Hungary's elections.
Hungarian political analyst and editor of Partizan, Szilard Pap, talks to Alex about the end of 16 years of Fidesz in governm…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
/544/ Iran War: Rogue State USA ft. Arash Azizi
Episode 559
On the brave new world we have entered.
Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to dr…
3 months ago
/543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn
Episode 558
On abolishing queer theory.
Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inv…
3 months, 1 week ago
/542/ Letters to the Editors: March 2026
Episode 557
We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month.
Key issues:
The difference between radical conservatism and the far right…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
/541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong
Episode 556
On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains.
Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor
Episode 555
On "non-hegemony" and world disorder.
Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the f…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
/539/ Reading Club: Where's Our Flying Cars?
Episode 554
On the slowing rate of technological progress.
Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 …
4 months ago