/244/ Bunga NYC: Live Debate ft. Adam Tooze

/244/ Bunga NYC: Live Debate ft. Adam Tooze

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/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson

On energy, the material basis for all our politics? Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from the 1956 Suez Crisis to the Frackin ...  Show more

/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley

On the Freedom Convoy, the indigenous question, and 'anti-socialist socialism'(?) Sociologist and commentator Ashley Frawley is back on the pod to talk about the situation in Canada. With family members involved in the protests, we asked her what she made of the truckers and the ...  Show more

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