Synthesising what we learned about neoliberalism (ep74), discussing some concrete examples and drawing out the broader importance of it all.
-What gets called 'neoliberal' but actually isn't?...
2019-06-13 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. We talk to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neoliberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why ...
2019-06-06 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On the European Parliamentary elections. Is this the day the 20th century truly died? Traditional social democratic and conservative parties took a pounding. The Greens surged. The populists didn't...
2019-05-27 21:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post
On 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism'. We talk about being pro-technology without being determinist. Does full automation mean the end of work? How do we craft a practical utopian vision? Plu...
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2019-05-15 19:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostOn Peterson vs Zizek. Did the 'debate of the century' live up to its billing? More importantly, what explains Peterson's appeal - and Zizek's? Why did the debate have such an odd, out of time feel?...
2019-04-27 12:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post
On the links between economic liberalism and fascism. Ishay Landa talks to us about the "Apprentice's Sorcerer": how political liberalism enfranchises the masses, to the disgruntlement of economic ...
2019-01-10 20:11:25 +0000 UTC View Post
On the cult of the entrepreneur. Alex Gourevitch talks to us about the "special kinds of assholes we get in our economy" and the dangers of the heroic capitalist icon. How does the earlier ideal of...
2019-01-04 16:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post