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UNLOCKED: /551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu
Jun 23, 2026
1h 30m 17s
/554/ Capitalism Is When the State... ft. Corey Robin
Jun 16, 2026
1h 14m 48s
/553/ Energy Sovereignty = Political Independence? ft. Benjamin Bradlow
Jun 9, 2026
41m 30s
/552/ Bunga Live: Is History Back (Baby)?
Jun 1, 2026
2h 15m 02s
/551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu
May 26, 2026
31m 48s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() UNLOCKED: /551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu | On Roland Barthes' Mythologies. (This is an unlocked episode from our Reading Club. Subscribe for more like this.) Alex, George, and contributing editor Catherine Liu delve into Barthes' 1957 classic to understand the form of ideology critique it proposes – and particularly as it relates to left and right. If the bourgeoisie generates myth, is revolution a cathartic act that gets us beyond myth? Is the direct producer also unable to speak myth, or is this a romanticisation? What are predominant left-wing myths today? Is "left vs right" a myth of sorts? Is the critic of myths condemned to live a "theoretical sociality"? Should people just be allowed to enjoy things? | 1h 30m 17s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() /554/ Capitalism Is When the State... ft. Corey Robin | On writing the history of capitalism. Political theorist Corey Robin talks to Alex H and Alex G about what is wrong with Sven Beckert's monumental new Capitalism: A Global History. Have historians returned to writing about big themes and grand narratives? Why does Beckert date capitalism's emergence to 12th century Arabia? Is capitalism essentially about free markets and free trade – or about the state, coercion, violence? If capitalism has no beginning and no end, then does that mean we're still at the end of History? Links: The Long Revolution, Corey Robin (review of Sven Beckert), The Nation /481/ Everything is Plausible: Oligarchy – or Worse ft. Corey Robin | 1h 14m 48s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() /553/ Energy Sovereignty = Political Independence? ft. Benjamin Bradlow✨ | energy sovereigntypolitical independence+5 | Benjamin Bradlow | PrincetonForeign Affairs+1 | — | energy crisisHormuz Strait+6 | — | 41m 30s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() /552/ Bunga Live: Is History Back (Baby)?✨ | live eventhistory+3 | Lee JonesNina Power | — | Verdurin | Bungacastlive event+3 | — | 2h 15m 02s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() /551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu✨ | ideology critiqueleft vs right+4 | Catherine Liu | Mythologies | — | Roland BarthesMythologies+6 | — | 31m 48s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() /550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas✨ | dollar imperialismfinancialisation+4 | Costas Lapavitsas | SOASA Topography of the New Dollar Imperialism+4 | Strait of Hormuz | dollar imperialismfinancialisation+5 | — | 1h 14m 18s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() History’s back, baby! (Event in London)✨ | historypolitics+4 | Lee JonesNina Power | BungacastThe End of the End of History | London | historyFukuyama+5 | — | 1m 52s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() /549/ Why Has Politics Genderised? ft. Ashley Frawley✨ | gender politicspolitical polarization+5 | Ashley Frawley | CompactNew Statesman+1 | — | genderpolitics+5 | — | 32m 05s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() /548/ Post-Legitimate Society ft. Will Charles✨ | gig economybig tech+5 | Will Charles | JacobinMuskism and the Myth of Productive Revolution+1 | — | gig economybig tech+7 | — | 36m 49s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() /547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley✨ | political capitalismeconomic stagnation+4 | Dylan Riley | UC BerkeleyNew Left Review+2 | — | political capitalismeconomic stagnation+6 | — | 1h 20m 41s | |
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| 4/21/26 | ![]() /546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger✨ | postliberalismpolitical spectrum+4 | Geoff Shullenberger | The End of History and the End of the End of HistoryHow to Save British Liberalism | — | postliberalismliberalism+5 | — | 38m 27s | |
| 4/15/26 | ![]() /545/ Orbanism without Orban: the New European Centre? ft. Szilard Pap✨ | Hungary electionsFidesz government+5 | Szilard Pap | PartizanJacobin | HungaryUkraine | FideszOrban+7 | — | 51m 16s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() /544/ Iran War: Rogue State USA ft. Arash Azizi✨ | Iran WarUS foreign policy+4 | Arash Azizi | Islamic RepublicNY Times+5 | — | Iran WarTrump+4 | — | 1h 25m 05s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() /543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn✨ | queer theoryidentity politics+3 | Ran Heilbrunn | VerdurinInversion: Gay Life after the Homosexual | — | queer theoryidentity politics+3 | — | 30m 19s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() /542/ Letters to the Editors: March 2026✨ | radical conservatismfar right+5 | — | UberThe New York Review+1 | — | radical conservatismfar right+8 | — | 29m 28s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() /541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong✨ | labor organizationcorporate vulnerability+5 | Benjamin Fong | AmazonASU's Center for Work and Democracy+5 | Brazil | laborAmazon+5 | — | 1h 08m 30s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() /540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor✨ | non-hegemonymultilateralism+4 | Tom Chodor | Monash UniversityPhenomenal World | — | multilateralismnon-hegemony+5 | — | 41m 43s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() /539/ Reading Club: Where's Our Flying Cars?✨ | technological progressstate capitalism+3 | Leigh Phillips | The BafflerLSE Global Economic History+1 | — | technological progressDavid Graeber+5 | — | 28m 40s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() /538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff✨ | Muskism21st century+5 | Quinn SlobodianBen Tarnoff | Harper CollinsMuskism: A Guide for the Perplexed | — | MuskismQuinn Slobodian+7 | — | 1h 15m 08s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() /537/ Letters to the Editors: Feb 2026✨ | postmodern rightpostmodern left+5 | — | patreon.com | — | postmoderncivilisation+5 | — | 31m 36s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() /536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg | On anti-racism, communism, and philosophy. Alex Gourevitch talks to political philosopher Paul Gomberg about his original and deep Marxist arguments for what makes racism wrong, why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism, and the limits of many contemporary anti-racist arguments. What does it mean to "alienate" race? What is the harm in racism? How does it harm everyone, not just its obvious victims? Why does Gomberg argue that can racism cannot be overcome in capitalist society? Has official racism been replaced by official anti-racism in the neoliberal era? What does it mean to understand anti-racism as communism? How did Gomberg's communist militancy impact his philosophy? For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links: Anti-Racism as Communism, Paul Gomberg, Bloomsbury How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice, Paul Gomberg, Blackwell | 50m 34s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() /535/ Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Conservatism ft. Matt McManus | On postmodern conservatives. Matt McManus talks to Alex and George about a Right increasingly shaped by the parameters of postmodern culture – and his Damage article on this. Who are the key thinkers of postmodern conservatism? Does truth matter anymore? Is "flooding the zone" an act of post-truth politics? Does all that is solid melt into advertising – and is it Charlie Kirk's fault? Is postmodern conservatism an adequate response the dissolution of the traditional “sources of the self”? For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links: Conservativism as Postmodernism, Matt McManus, Damage Why only Socialism can redeem Conservatism, Maurice Glassman, Together For The Common Good | 30m 54s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() /534/ Is There a Doctrine Called Donroe? ft. Juan David Rojas | On Trump and Rubio, Venezuela and Cuba. Writer Juan David Rojas talks to Alex and Lee about the abduction of Maduro, what next for Venezuela, and Trump's "hemispheric" foreign policy. What is the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America? Is the attack on Venezuela a war for oil? Or a war vs 'narcoterrorism'? What are the internal divisions in Venezuela, and could it fall into civil war? What are the armed groups in the country? Who's calling the shots in Washington: neocons or paleocons? Is the US open-border policy for Cubans going to cause a rift within the Trump admin? For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast Links: How Maduro Sealed His Own Fate, Juan David Rojas, Compact Atlas Shrugged: Decoding Trump’s National Security Strategy, Lee Jones, American Affairs From Rogue State to Failed State?: The Perils of Intervention in Venezuela, Juan David Rojas, American Affairs Trump’s Venezuela Actions Are About More Than Oil, Matt Huber, Jacobin | 46m 35s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | ![]() /533/ Reading Club: Illiberalism? | On "thin ideologies" in a postmodern age. The Reading Club kicks off with an exploration of illiberalism, a "new ideological universe" that exists in "a permanent situational relation to liberalism." For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast/membership What are examples of this backlash against liberalism? How is illiberalism different from populism, conservatism, or the far right? What is a thin versus a thick ideology? Are we condemned to a 21st century of only thin ideologies? Is 'illiberalism' a useful term to describe what is going on in politics today? Is liberalism versus illiberalism just a terminal culture war? Links: Illiberalism: a conceptual introduction, Marlene Laruelle, East European Politics (2022) /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed | Patreon | 27m 15s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() /532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet | On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context. What is the paleoconservative worldview, how is it different from the neoconservative one, and which is more influential in the Trump regime? How does paleoconservatism translate into actual foreign policy? What's in Trump's new National Security Strategy? Are we back to a 19th century-style 'spheres of influence' arrangement? Does the radical right's foreign policy lead back to a populist kind of isolationism – or to a 'civilisational nationalism'? Will Trump solidify the transatlantic alliance, or generate a rift? Links: /461/ Welcome to the World of the Right ft. Michael C. Williams World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and World Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). International Relations and the Geopolitics of the European New Right, European Journal of International Relations, JF Drolet From Critique to Reaction: The New Right, Critical Theory and International Relations, Journal of International Political Theory, JF Drolet & Michael C. Williams Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: Goodbye, Liberal International Order; Hello, Radical Right, Lee Jones, American Affairs (forthcoming | 1h 17m 58s | ||||||
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