Bungacast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 421
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Excerpt: /143/ Aufhebonus Bonus (August)
In this semi-regular slot, we respond to your comments and criticisms received over the past month or so. Discussion featur…
/142/ Dollar Empire (2) ft. Daniel Bessner
On US foreign policy.
Following on from our episode on the political-economy of dollar hegemony (no. 139), we turn to look at how the dollar underpins American empire. Is 'permawar' a product of …
/141/ Oh Lebanon, What Now? ft. Rima Majed
On Lebanon's crisis.
We call up Rima Majed in Beirut to talk us through the aftermath of the enormous explosion and ensuing protests. How has Lebanon's history since the civil war created such a prof…
Excerpt: /140/ Three Articles: Right-Populism
In this latest Three Articles, we discuss the durability or otherwise of right-populism in the UK, US and Brazil. Reading:
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/139/ Dollar Empire ft. Yakov Feygin & Dominik Leusder
On dollar hegemony.
Dutch disease has long been seen as the curse of resource-rich economies in which a currency appreciates and jobs are lost overseas. But what if the greenback is having the same…
Excerpt: /138/ Fuck, Abolish, Defund: The Police
The protests in the US against police violence - and their globalisation - prompts us to discuss radical proposals for what to do ab…
Excerpt: /137/ Reading Club: War, Technology, The State
This month we discuss Wolfgang Streeck's reading of Friedrich Engels which appeared recently in the New Lef…
/136/ Banana Monarchy ft. David Edgerton
On British decline.
Much ink has been spilled over the Britain’s fate since the end of its empire. Could it be that decline has been overstated? And what will happen to Britain as it leaves the Euro…
UNLOCKED /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orth…
Excerpt: /135/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
Excerpt: /134/ The Call - Afterparty
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The three of us discuss some of the themes that emerged from our interview with Krithika Varagur (ep.133) - the entanglement …
/133/ The Call ft. Krithika Varagur
On Saudi religious proselytism.
Saudi Arabia has actively sought to export Salafism. How has it done this - and what have been its effects, in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria and Kosovo? Why was fi…
/132/ Partial to Slavs ft. Lily Lynch
Aleksandar Vučić's coalition won the recent (21 June) Serbian parliamentary elections amidst a mass boycott. We talk to Balkanist editor Lily Lynch about what Vučić represents - violent ultranational…
Excerpt: /131/ Reading Club: The PMC
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On the Ehrenreich's re-evaluation of the Professional-Managerial Class.
We discuss Barbara and John Ehrenreich's "Dea…
Excerpt: /130/ Three Articles: BLM
On this latest Three Articles, we discuss the global Black Lives Matter protests. Reading:
/129/ The Right Is Weak ft. Corey Robin
On the left case for freedom.
We talk to Corey Robin about how the left has sacrificed the realm of freedom to the right. And why the Left's weakness is also the Right's. Plus, why is it clear that…
/128/ BACKLASCH! ft. Anna Khachiyan
On culturally conservative critics of capitalism.
Neoliberalism’s fragmentary and atomising tendencies have gone too far. In response, some right-wingers have turned against the market. At the same …
Excerpt: /127/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (3bis) ft. Angela Nagle & Michael Tracey
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Bonus content (always the best stuff) from our interview with Angela and Michael (episode 126).
/126/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (3) ft. Angela Nagle & Michael Tracey
Why did Bernie Sanders fail?
In the third in an occasional series on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey about their analysis of Bernie Sanders' cam…
Excerpt: /124/ Three Articles: Money & Power
In this latests Three Articles we discuss power, money and the power of money - in a post-Covid world. Readings: