Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlan...
2023-10-11 18:20:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Around 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, H...
2023-09-26 05:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1999 in the wake of the Kosovo conflict Gilbert Achcar published a book titled The New Cold War: The World After Kosovo. At the time, describing tensions between the United States, Russ...
2023-09-14 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to respond to the many excellent questions sent in by listeners. We talked about Perry Anderson's take on Adam's work in the New Left Review, why Adam - despite h...
2023-08-31 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Jacqueline Rose returns to the show to discuss her new book, The Plague: Living Death in Our Times. We talked about what the Covid-19 pandemic revealed about contemporary society and wheth...
2023-08-23 05:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour responds to the excellent questions sent in by listeners on subjects ranging from conspiracy theory, the ferocity of anti-communist rhetoric on the right - in spite of the absence o...
2023-08-08 05:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn the 16th of this month Adam Tooze will be returning to PTO to answer your questions. Adam's writing is famously wide-ranging so feel free to throw some curveballs - but some topics you might wan...
2023-08-04 15:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Amber Husain joins PTO to talk about her new book, Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh. We talked about whether it's possible for there to be such a thing as 'ethical meat', why Amber thin...
2023-08-03 05:45:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Shatz joins PTO to talk about his new book, Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination.
We talked about why Adam, though a huge admirer of Edward Said and his...
Richard Seymour will be returning to answer your questions soon. You might like to ask him something on the recent episode on Prighozin, Putin, the Wagner group and the abortive rebellion. Ri...
2023-07-11 09:14:39 +0000 UTC View Post
On the 23rd of June, following months of increasing tension between the Wagner Group and the Russian Ministry of Defence, Yevgeny Prigozhin launched his rebellion. Prigozhin's forces quickly took c...
2023-07-08 10:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
David Wearing joins PTO to discuss his article 'The myth of the reforming monarch: Orientalism, racial capitalism, and UK support for the Arab Gulf monarchies'
We talked about the nature of B...
2023-06-23 07:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The recent National Conservatism conference in Britain brought together an array of politicians, journalists, and academics of varying stripes of conservatism, but united by their hostility to so-c...
2023-06-13 05:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hil Aked joins PTO to talk about their new book, Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity, the first book length treatment of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain.
We ...
2023-05-13 10:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour discusses the protest movement in Israel that has emerged in response to the plans of the most right-wing Israeli government in history to dramatically curtail the power of the judi...
2023-04-21 12:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn this sneak preview of the forthcoming China series Eli Friedman talks about how to make sense of China's political and economic system, and why in Eli's view it makes sense to describe China as ...
2023-04-11 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sebastian Budgen returns to PTO to talk about the protest movement in France, sparked by Emmanuel Macron's pension reform bill. We talked about why the new bill has encountered such broad oppositio...
2023-03-31 11:38:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the key causal factors that allowed fascism to emerge in the early twentieth century and whether conditions that would enable fascism on the interwar model exis...
2023-03-14 13:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour returns to respond to listener's questions on the so-called lockdown sceptics. We talked about the leaking of former UK health secretary Matt Hancock's pandemic WhatsApp messages, a...
2023-03-03 11:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Rogers returns to talk about the Ukraine war, one year after the beginning of the Russian invasion. We discussed why the Russian military have been so unsuccessful in their aims and whether th...
2023-02-27 13:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Dhirendra K. Jha joins PTO to talk about his book, Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India. We talked about Godse's childhood and how is belonging to the elit...
2023-02-18 08:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe recent episode on the lockdown sceptics, and Toby Green's The Covid Consensus certainly stirred up plenty of debate on social media. If you have a question for Richard on the recent ep...
2023-02-14 13:09:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour discusses his recent blogpost on the so-called lockdown sceptics, and in particular the work of Toby Green and his book The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and ...
2023-02-07 06:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJames Meadway returns to the show to answer listener's questions. James responded on the relationship between humans, nature and the production of value on a finite planet, the causes of inflation,...
2023-01-28 13:52:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In this week’s Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down the shift away from the dominance of the dollar (0:41), what this means for US economic power (3:13), and a call from noble-prize winning econo...
2023-01-25 12:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostPolly Smythe, the labour movement correspondent for Novara Media joins PTO to talk about how strikes achieve their aims and the importance - or otherwise - of public support. We also discussed the ...
2023-01-20 13:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week’s episode of Macrodose, James Meadway breaks down talk of a “poly crisis” at the World Economic Forum in Davos (00:50), the threat of default as the US breaches it’s debt ceili...
2023-01-18 06:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostJames will be returning next week to answer your questions on the recent episode on his economic predictions for the coming year. From the polycrisis to the UK's poor productivity, from MMT to the ...
2023-01-11 10:59:07 +0000 UTC View Post
James Meadway returns to discuss his predictions for the world economy in the year ahead, and why the notion of the polycrisis - while in some ways useful - fails to reckon with the fact that...
2023-01-09 14:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn the latest episode of MACRODOSE, James Meadway breaks down a new IMF forecast that predicts China’s economic downturn, a set of predictions for our economic future from multinational asset man...
2023-01-04 06:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post