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Back to Search/216/ Goodbye Mutti! Election Preview ft. Dominik Leusder
Episode 216
On Germany's election this week.
Merkel has led Germany since 2005, outlasting any number of politicians across the West. What accounts for her longe…
4 years, 9 months ago
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 1
Episode 216
The first in a special five-part series on generational consciousness and conflict.
In this episode, we look at the current, vexed discourse around…
4 years, 9 months ago
Excerpt: /215/ Organize the Incels?! ft. Alex Gendler
Episode 214
On the long history of involuntary celibates. Alex Gendler talks to us about his essay in American Affairs, "The New Superfluous Men". With growi…
4 years, 10 months ago
/213/ The Leopard Lockdown ft. Adam Tooze
Episode 213
On Covid and the end of the end of history.
Adam Tooze joins us to discuss his new book, Shutdown. In 2020 everything changed... so that everything …
4 years, 10 months ago
Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
On net-zero, CCP nanny state, and optimised dating. We start off discussing the HBO series "The White Lotus" before tackling three articles on mid…
4 years, 10 months ago
/211/ Unlocking the Lockdown Left ft. @galexybrane
Episode 211
On lockdowns, education, and the left.
California middle-school teacher and social critic Alex Gutentag (@galexybrane) joins us to talk about the dep…
4 years, 10 months ago
Excerpt: /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism
Episode 210
We discuss Eli Zaretsky's essay, "Psychoanalysis and the Spirit of Capitalism" (also available as a chapter in his book Political Freud). How conv…
4 years, 10 months ago
Excerpt: /209/ Aufhebonus Bonus + Kabul Falls
On the Fall of Kabul, plus responding to your questions & comments.
On this Aufhebonus Bonus, we take your critical comments on 'positive biopoliti…
4 years, 10 months ago
/207/ Pangolin vs Lobster, pt 1 ft. Paolo Gerbaudo
Episode 207
What comes after neoliberalism - the protective state?
We talk to Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, The Great Recoil, in which Paolo argues we are n…
4 years, 11 months ago
Excerpt: /206/ Three Articles: Post-Liberalism
Episode 206
On post-liberalism: loving the state, crushing the individual? For this 3A, articles from different 'conservative' outlets - but how conservative,…
4 years, 11 months ago