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American Prestige @amprestigepod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Bonus - Trump and the End of History w/ Lee Jones Lee Jones of the @bungacast.bsky.social pod joins us for a discussion of Trump’s foreign policy and the end of the end of history. americanprestigepod.com/episodes/953...

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Tom Chodor @tomchodor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨 🎙️ Last week I was on @bungacast.bsky.social discussing "post-multilateralism" and the emergence of a apolar & non-hegemonic world, where no power is willing or able to underpin the compromises and concessions necessary for multilateralism to function 👇 bungacast.podbean.com/e/540-welcom...

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/540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor | Bungacast

On "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 institutions but w...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If Fordism characterised the mid-20th century, do we now live under Muskism? We discuss w/ the authors of "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🔑 UNLOCKED 🔑 Listen to our previously Subscriber Only conversation with Dino Guastella on C. Wright Mills' White Collar, the middle classes and post-mass culture. 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Here's what's coming this month in Bunga World:

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Are the classical ideologies (socialism, conservatism, and liberalism) all dead in 2026?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism. Our guest, Paul Gomberg on what it means to "alienate" race and the limits of many contemporary anti-racist arguments + more. 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Why Mark Carney's speech was a watershed moment —@DrLeeJones

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Listening to people talk about the Super Bowl like...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🫡 Does Trump's foreign policy reflect a paleocon or neocon worldview and are we back to a 19th century-style 'spheres of influence' arrangement? And who wants to play a game of RISK? 🎧 Listen to our NEW EPISODE w/ Jean-François Drolet:

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

For this keeping the Bunga party going with us this month:

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There are weeks where decades happen and...you know the rest. We look back at January...and on to the rest of 2026 in our newsletter: 📚 👉️ buff.ly/EoLb10R

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What a year, huh (Captain, it's January)

New year, new rigour: setting out priorities

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Why psychoanalysis, with its core concept of the unconscious, should have acted as a defense against the rise of "wokeness" in the field, says psychoanalyst Christie Offenbacher From our episode on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through therapy:

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Highly symbolic attachments to singular leaders like Modi or Trump isn't about too much democracy, says Sandipto Dasgupta. From our latest episode on the making of independent India: 🎧: www.patreon.com/posts/528-he...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"You can not have social transformation and free trade..." Our guest @panagsotiris on the ways in which international capital = more exploitation

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And while we've got your attention—tell us what guest(s) you'd like us to have on in 2026!

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

What episode got you talking in 2025? Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? with a special appearance (apparition?) by @ghostofchristo1: 🎧 LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/487-di...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We wouldn't want to spend the End of the End of History without anyone else but you...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

What Bungacast episode got listeners talking the most in 2025? 🗣️ @jhensonpogue LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/495-he...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

What were the Must Listen Bungacasts of 2025? 🎧 Start here: bungacast.podbean.com/e/461-welcom...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

What happens when Bungacast visits a small town in New Mexico? 🎉 Find out: www.patreon.com/posts/526-co...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎬 MOVIE CLUB 🎬 We get a mega-dose of American paranoia and talk Eddington, One Battle After Another and Bugonia. Grab your popcorn: www.patreon.com/posts/526-co...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What is the crisis of authority? @DamageMag's Amber Trotter:

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📚 From the Archives 📚 Last year, we talked with @CLiuAnon about how the changing culture wars have changed, why everyone is a populist now, and about how we should defend the canon. LINK: www.patreon.com/posts/426-ex...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 W/ @damagemag's Amber Trotter on overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority. 🗣️ What is driving the explosion in mental health diagnoses? 🗣️ Does capitalism make us ill? Is blaming 'capitalism' abstractly part of the problem?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our convo w/ Amber Trotter on overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority is out today! Here's what else is on deck in December: ☑️ (As always, subscribe to get the full slate of episodes)

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If politics seem stuck in a doom loop, is there a possibility of a <gulp> hope loop? + more in our literary post about our oral and video podcast in which we lament the death of literacy. Got it?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🙋 What exactly do we mean by political legitimacy? We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The irony of progressive education is that it actually shuts people in their place rather than open doors. —@varnvlog

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🤔 The problem with a post-literate society is that we don't have a model of an oral culture without memory. If the internet has fried our brain, how do we go back? Listen to @varnvlog on the newest Bungacast!

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🔥 SPECIAL EPISODE 🔥 Talks given by contributing editor @CLiuAnon and co-host George Hoare on the paranoid style. Richard Hofstatder’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” + The Paranoid Style in British Politics + "Zombies Clowns and Gangsters" 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"If we want to have a society that's flourshing, that society needs to be equal but it also needs to be excellent." Dustin Guastella on art and culture after postmodernism—when no one can say if Beethoven is better than Taylor Swift.

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar w/ Dino Guastella. 🗣️ Does Mills' account of the “economic psychology” of the White Collar worker still ring true today? 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🗣️ Silicon Valley is attaching itself to the state like a leech says @g_shullenberger

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📚 FROM THE ARCHIVES 📚 Revisit our conversation w/ Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser on the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind. The past really does not go away! bungacast.podbean.com/e/147-the-pa...

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 w/ @g_shullenberger on free speech, the tech right, and politicisation and the antichrist. 🗣️ Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"? 🗣️ Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

More “adventures in de-socialisation” in this month's recap. Maybe society really does need to be defended—but for real this time? 📖 buff.ly/DBN0vym

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If enlightenment means disenchantment—maybe we need some form of re-enchantment? —@alex_1789

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🧵 WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD 🌍 We still build colossal temples, mountains, and monuments — structures that are very big, that pretend to be ancient, and are mostly ugly. 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Contemporary wonders and monuments do exist — they just might not be very beautiful. — @pptamburelli

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🔥 NEW EPISODE 🔥 w/ @pptamburelli Everyone is still making modern monuments but the new wonders of the world aren't so wonderful. Why?

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Seeing France through 4 moments w/ @lyrafred 🇫🇷 1995 – The last moment of classic class struggle; 🇫🇷 2005 – Riots in the banlieues 🇫🇷 2015 – Islamist terror 🇫🇷 2025 – government collapse.

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The era of state capitalism is here, says @IliasAlami, the question now is how it's going to develop. 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Is the era of state capitalism upon us? We're joined by @IliasAlami to talk about the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. 💬 Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but is global? 💬 How did globalisation and stagnation combine to give birth to it? 👇

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Are urban spaces like expressways an abomination, the new nature, or somewhere in between? We discuss with Richard J Williams, author of The Expressway World

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Aufhebunga Bunga @bungacast.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're taking a road trip w/ Richard J Williams to talk about his new book, *The Expressway World* 🚗 How have cities adapted to the infrastructural legacies of the mid-20th century?

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