67 TEASER | What is Liberalism? III. John Rawls and Political Liberalism

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126 | Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program

In this episode, we talk about Marx’s critique of the Gotha Program, but you knew that from the title. We discuss Marxian critiques of redistributive left politics, why dogmatic Marxists are wrong about this, and much more. We connect it to the present and disagree. It’s very goo ...  Show more

125 TEASER | Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power

In this episode, we talk about Elias Canetti’s 1960 book Crowds and Power. Equal parts political theory, poetic sociology, and speculative anthropology, this staggering work explores human social life through an increasingly elaborate series of reflections on the nature of crowds ...  Show more

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