In today's episode Cecilia Rikap - an expert in the political economy of science and technology - speaks with Paris Marx (host of the excellent Tech Won't Save Us podcast). Cecilia and Paris discus...
2025-08-06 04:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Expert on China-Iran relations William Figueroa joins PTO to talk about the relationship between China and Iran in the wake of the twelve day war between Iran and Israel. We chatted about why China...
2025-07-25 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOwen Hatherley returns to respond to the excellent questions sent in by listeners. Topics included the prospect of a new left party in the UK, housing policy under Keir Starmer's Labour government...
2025-07-16 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1998 Leigh Claire La Berge was hired by a major communications conglomerate, where she worked alongside employees of the soon to be disgraced Arther Anderson (the auditor of companies involved i...
2025-07-10 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist Séamus Malekafzali joins PTO to talk about the aftermath of the Israel-Iran war. We chatted about where the cessation of hostilities leaves the two states militarily, and whether Iran's...
2025-07-01 05:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In the latest episode of Interregnum, PTO's show within a show with Richard Seymour - we talked about the US strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. We discussed whether the Israelis may be disa...
2025-06-23 15:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing our recent episode on the Manic Street Preachers, Owen Hatherley will be returning to answer your questions...
2025-06-20 10:50:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi joins PTO to talk about his recent article in the New Left Review on...
2025-06-19 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Owen Hatherley returns to discuss his New Left Review article on the Welsh guitar band, the Man...
2025-06-11 05:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In the latest episode of Interregnum, Richard Seymour discusses the abrupt increase in Western criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza and why we're finally seeing that heightened opprobrium in this ...
2025-05-22 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Radhika Desai returns to PTO to talk about the latest round of violence between India and Pakistan, following the terrorist attack that killed 26 tourists in Indian administered Kashmir on April 22...
2025-05-20 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Natasha Lennard returns to answer your questions on - amongst other topics - the escalation of the Gaza genocide, the prospects for a federal ban on abortion in the United States, and whether we ar...
2025-05-10 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNext week recent guest Natasha Lennard will be returning to answer your questions. You may like to ask something regarding 2025-04-30 10:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake Werner on US-China relations in the context of the trade war. We discussed why Donald Trump has dialled down his rhetoric over tariffs, and why the term "decoupling" hardly captures the severi...
2025-04-29 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Amjad Iraqi returns to PTO to discuss the Israeli offensive in Gaza - following on from Israel's violation of the ceasefire in late March. We spoke about why the ceasefire was always likely to be v...
2025-04-22 05:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's episode, Quinn Slobodian returns to answer questions sent in by listeners in response to our recent episode on Quinn's new book, Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populis...
2025-04-13 06:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostQuinn Slobodian will be returning next week to answer your questions. You may like to ask something related to our 2025-04-04 13:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Quinn Slobodian returns to PTO to talk about his new book Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right. Whilst politicians and thinkers of the new right are typically chara...
2025-04-01 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Natasha Lennard joins PTO to talk about her recent writing on how the Democrats are making sense of their electoral defeat in November and how the mainstream of the party is adopting conservative s...
2025-03-22 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In the latest episode of Interregnum Richard comments on the the fallout from the calamitous meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and JD Vance. We discussed whether the Ukrainian ...
2025-03-02 21:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hannah Proctor joins PTO to discuss her book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat. Amongst other aspects of the book, we discussed the practice of Maoist self-c...
2025-02-26 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard responds to some more questions sent in by listeners. Topics include: The future of the US healthcare system, how the Gaza genocide will be remembered, and how the left should navigate ques...
2025-02-21 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Tooze returns to answer the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. Topics covered included the US tech sector's rapprochement with the Trump administration, Elon Musk's war on the the ...
2025-02-06 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOn February 5th Adam Tooze will be returning to PTO to respond to listener questions. You may like to ask Adam about his 2025-01-27 10:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard returns to answer more questions - including on the Gaza ceasefire, bible study in American schools, and what might be learned from Mexico's Morena party.
2025-01-25 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
PTO is joined by the Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada. In our conversation we talked about the humanitarian situation in Gaza after fifteen months of war and genocide. We also talked...
2025-01-20 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFor the latest episode of Interregnum - PTO's show-within-a-show, Richard Seymour will be responding to more listeners' questions. You may like to ask Richard about the implications of the recently...
2025-01-16 08:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Will Davies joins PTO to talk about his recent article in the London Review of Books on the UK government's economic agenda. We discussed the policies that Labour has adopted in its a...
2025-01-11 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In today’s episode Richard Seymour responds to listener questions on the overthrow of Assad in Syria, the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the significance of widespread public ...
2024-12-23 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs previously mentioned, I've been unwell so there won't be any regular PTO episodes for the rest of December but I did want to do something for PTO supporters so I will be recording a listeners' q...
2024-12-12 10:56:50 +0000 UTC View Post