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The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. Politics is back but it’s stranger than ever: join us as we chart a course beyond the age of ’bunga bunga’. Interviews, long-form discussions, docu-series.
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- /568/ Is There a 'Meloni Model' for Europe? ft. David Broder · 1 h 19 min · Episode 589On Italy, right-wing culture war, and hegemony. David Broder is back on the pod, talking to Alex and Lee about how Giorgia Meloni has managed to become Italy's longest-serving…
- /567/ Did They Dump Trump on Blue Tuesday? ft. Ryan Zickgraf · 1 h 4 min · Episode 588On the US midterms and the beginning of the end of Trump. Ryan Zickgraf talks to Alex about an election of real import, and whether it is an endorsement of the Democrats or mere…
- /566/ The Last Big French Crisis ft. Charles Devellennes · 49 min · Episode 587On the pupils' protests and wider riots. Charles Devellennes, author of books on Macron and French protests, is back on the pod, talking to Alex about a month of insurrection in…
- /565/ New Right Modernizers? ft. Orlando Lima [in Portuguese] · 1 h 27 min · Episode 586On Brazil and national reconstruction. In our first ever episode in Portuguese, Alex speaks to Orlando Lima (editor of Valete, in-house magazine of new right-wing party, Missão)…
- /564/ The Wealth of Those with No Wealth ft. Joscha Abels · 34 min · Episode 585On infrastructure – who owns and who controls it. Scholar Joscha Abels talks to Lee and Alex about global infrastructure, from satellites to cloud computing to undersea cables…
- /563/ Kingly Contradictions in Morocco ft. Merouan Mekouar · 59 min · Episode 584On migration, monarchy, and legitimacy. Merouan Mekouar, professor of development studies at York University in Toronto, gives Alex and Lee an in-depth view of a country at the…
- /562/ No More Populist Shortcuts? ft. Daniel Tutt & C. Derick Varn · 1 h 18 min · Episode 583On dead ends and new beginnings. Socialist writers, teachers and podcasters, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn, talk to Alex and George about their pamphlet, The People Are Not One…
- /561/ Who Actually Rules Brazil? ft. Juliano Fiori · 58 min · Episode 582On sovereignty and Brazil's election. Juliano Fiori, Alameda Institute director, talks to Alex about Lula versus (Flávio) Bolsonaro through the lens of internal and external…
- Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part four. · 1 h 17 min · Episode 581A docu-series from Bungacast. This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what…
- Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part three. · 1 h 12 min · Episode 580A docu-series from Bungacast. This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what…
- Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part two. · 1 h 33 min · Episode 579A docu-series from Bungacast. This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what…
- Nowhere Everywhere? Place in a Digital World. Part one. · 54 min · Episode 578A docu-series from Bungacast. This sequence of interviews, conversations and meetings were recorded mostly in New York – the capital of the 20th century – in order to ask what…
- /560/ Indonesia's Putin ft. Vedi Hadiz · 33 min · Episode 577On oligarchy and the end of reform. Vedi Hadiz is back on to talk to Lee and Alex about Indonesia, amidst severe economic instability in the country. What does the ascendancy of…
- /559/ Global Jihad: 9/11 at 25 ft. Philip Cunliffe · 32 min · Episode 559On the complex connections between globalisation and political Islam. The OG Bunga Boys reflect on the quarter-century since that spectacular terrorist attack, and talk about…
- /558/ Sewer Socialism, or Left in the Toilet? ft. Ross Barkan · 1 h 11 min · Episode 576On Zohran Mamdani. Writer Ross Barkan, author of The Revolutionary on the New York mayor, talks to Ryan Zickgraf and Alex Hochuli about what Mamdani means for the Left. How did…
- /557/ Letters to the Editors: Aug 2026 · 36 min · Episode 575We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month. Key issues: How big a deal, historically, is the US's failure in Iran? Is populism rooted in…
- Where's Bungacast? Nowhere...Everywhere · 5 min · Episode 574Taking a short break – back in late August.
- /556/ World Cup 2026: Stick to Politics ft. Many Guests · 1 h 43 min · Episode 573On politics and football. Alex is joined by Karl Sharro, Juan David Rojas, Tim Abrahams, and Euan Marshall to pick over the stories of this World Cup. If the World Cup is a…
- /555/ Who Denies US Empire? ft. Daniel Bessner · 44 min · Episode 572On 'imperialist realism'. Daniel Bessner, historian, is back on to discuss the relation between US foreign policy and ideology. He talks to Alex and Lee about his forthcoming…
- UNLOCKED: /551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu · 1 h 30 min · Episode 571On 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…
- /554/ Capitalism Is When the State... ft. Corey Robin · 1 h 14 min · Episode 567On 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…
- /553/ Energy Sovereignty = Political Independence? ft. Benjamin Bradlow · 42 min · Episode 568On global shortages and their political consequences. Benjamin Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex and Lee about the…
- /552/ Bunga Live: Is History Back (Baby)? · 2 h 15 min · Episode 570Audio from the live event held at Verdurin, London, on 28 May 2026. The OG Bunga Boys - Alex, George, and Phil - present their takes, followed by responses from contributing…
- /551/ Reading Club: Mythologies ft. Catherine Liu · 32 min · Episode 569On Roland Barthes' Mythologies. Alex, George, and contributing editor Catherine Liu delve into Barthes' 1957 classic to understand the form of ideology critique it proposes – and…
- /550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas · 1 h 14 min · Episode 566On world money and war. Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at SOAS, London, talks to George and Alex about financialisation, arrested development, and the Strait of…
- History’s back, baby! (Event in London) · 2 min · Episode 565History’s back, baby! Thu 28 May, Verdurin, London Tickets: https://verdur.in/store/historys-back-baby-admission/ It is obvious today that the “end of history”, postulated by…
- /549/ Why Has Politics Genderised? ft. Ashley Frawley · 32 min · Episode 564On angry young women. Ashley Frawley, sociologist and senior editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to delve more deeply into young people's political polarisation on gender…
- /548/ Post-Legitimate Society ft. Will Charles · 37 min · Episode 563On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology. Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself. How should the…
- /547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley · 1 h 20 min · Episode 562On political capitalism and divided workers. Sociology professor at UC Berkeley, Dylan Riley, talks to Alex and Lee about economic stagnation, the state propping up capitalism…
- /546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger · 38 min · Episode 561On postliberalism, MacIntyre and Gray. How was the 1950s "end of ideology" (Bell, Lipset) different from the Fukuyaman 1990s "end of history"? Is John Gray correct in his…
- /545/ Orbanism without Orban: the New European Centre? ft. Szilard Pap · 51 min · Episode 560On Hungary's elections. Hungarian political analyst and editor of Partizan, Szilard Pap, talks to Alex about the end of 16 years of Fidesz in government. What is the scale of…
- /544/ Iran War: Rogue State USA ft. Arash Azizi · 1 h 25 min · Episode 559On the brave new world we have entered. Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to draw out some firm…
- /543/ Squeamish About Sex, Aroused By Identity ft. Ran Heilbrunn · 30 min · Episode 558On abolishing queer theory. Ran Heilbrunn talks to Lee Jones and Alex Hochuli about his chapter, "Abolish Queer Theory!" in the edited collection Inversion: Gay Life after the…
- /542/ Letters to the Editors: March 2026 · 29 min · Episode 557We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month. Key issues: The difference between radical conservatism and the far right Racism in class society in…
- /541/ Wedging in a Lever ft. Benjamin Fong · 1 h 8 min · Episode 556On Amazon, labour & logistics, and trains. Benjamin Fong, of ASU's Center for Work and Democracy, as well as an editor at Damage and co-author of the substack On The Seams, talks…
- /540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor · 42 min · Episode 555On "non-hegemony" and world disorder. Tom Chodor, IR & politics scholar at Monash University, joins us to talk about a world that still retains the formal shells of multilateral…
- /539/ Reading Club: Where's Our Flying Cars? · 29 min · Episode 554On the slowing rate of technological progress. Alex, George and contributing editor (and science writer) Leigh Phillips discuss David Graeber's 2012 essay, Of Flying Cars and the…
- /538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff · 1 h 15 min · Episode 553On the operating system of the 21st century. Historian Quinn Slobodian and tech writer Ben Tarnoff talk to Alex Hochuli and Alex Gourevitch about their new book, Muskism: A Guide…
- /537/ Letters to the Editors: Feb 2026 · 32 min · Episode 552We deal with your questions, comments and criticisms from the past month or so. Key issues this month are: What are the wrongs of the postmodern right – aand left? Will the…
- /536/ Can Racism Be Overcome Within Capitalism? ft. Paul Gomberg · 51 min · Episode 551On 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…
- /535/ Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Conservatism ft. Matt McManus · 31 min · Episode 550On 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…
- /534/ Is There a Doctrine Called Donroe? ft. Juan David Rojas · 47 min · Episode 549On 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…
- /533/ Reading Club: Illiberalism? · 27 min · Episode 548On "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…
- /532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet · 1 h 17 min · Episode 547On 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…
- /531/ Interiorising the Border ft. Ryan Zickgraf · 55 min · Episode 546On ICE, Minneapolis – and your questions & comments. Contributing editor Ryan Zickgraf is back from Minnesota and tells us what is happening on the ground. We also discuss: If…
- /530/ Urgent and Immediate and Impossible ft. Christie Offenbacher & Ricky Levitt · 26 min · Episode 545On the social turn in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts Christie and Ricky talk to Alex and George about their article in issue #5 of Damage, on ill-fated attempts at solving social…
- /529/ Don't Pick Up: The Scam Economy ft. Mark Bo · 47 min · Episode 544On Southeast Asia's scam compounds. Mark Bo, organised-crime researcher and co-author of Scam, talks to Alex and Lee about his book, his experiences and why this fusion of…
- /528/ The Heroic Bourgeoisie in the Democratic Post-Colony ft. Sandipto Dasgupta · 1 h 11 min · Episode 543On the making of independent India – and its lessons. Assistant professor of politics at The New School, Sandipto Dasgupta, talks to contributing editor Alex Gourevitch about…
- /527/ Exit the Minoritarian ft. Panagiotis Sotiris · 1 h 2 min · Episode 542On the collective subject at the end of the End of History. Panagiotis Sotiris, Historical Materialism editorial board member and assistant professor at the University of the…
- /526/ Come On Feel the Paranoise · 35 min · Episode 541On US derangement on screen. The OG Bunga boys get togther for the annual end-of-year film episode. We discuss Ari Aster's Eddington, as well as a bit of Paul Thomas Anderson's…
