Coming up in November

Well, October 2023 provided us with a few of those "weeks where decades happen" and the escalating global turbulence looks to have no end. Thanks for being with us as we try to understand the nature of the moment.

Here's what we have coming up in November:

• Lily Lynch joins us to talk about NATO enlargement and the politics of Sweden, Finland, Poland, Ukraine and more (out tomorrow)
• The conflict in Israel/Palestine and the risks of wider escalation mean we will continue to cover the matter. Palestinian author will be Bashir Abu-Manneh joining us.
• Vincent Bevins discusses a decade of mass protest and the failure of horizontalism.
• Shahar Hameiri and Tom Chodor are back to tell us about Australia's aboriginal 'Voice' referendum, and the consequences of Covid lockdowns. 
• We debate John Gray's book "The New Leviathans" 
• Alex brutally quizzes George and Phil on their book, Taking Control, and asks what's so good about Brexit anyway
• The Reading Club continues, looking at Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing and whether China will inaugurate an era of non-capitalist market economy.

ICYMI

In October:

• Argentina went to the polls with an anarcho-capitalist set to win. What happened? Alex talked to Ernesto Semán.
• The backdrop is Argentina's inflation and debt burden. In a big double episode, Jerome Roos told us why countries play by the rules, when those rules only impose austerity and pain. 
• Ryan Zickgraf argued that hyperpolitics is over, and politics is boring again. Is he right?
• The state and big tech have merged to create an almighty surveillance apparatus. Jacob Siegel tells us about the disinformation hoax. 
• In one of our most popular episodes ever, we discuss the tragic nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Alex Gourevitch .
• We finished up the Reading Club on Legitimacy by debating whether 'polycrisis' makes sense, and began the final section of this year's syllabus. 

Bunga Elsewhere:

• George was busy. For Sublation, he reviewed Benjamin Fong's book on drugs (previously featured on the podcast). In Damage, George argued we have to show our collective power to face down the hatred of the human. And he reviewed the reactionary thinker John Gray on a new totalitarian entity. 
• Alex took stock of Argentina's election, noting how the rise of a far-right candidate may be the undoing of the traditional centre-right. 
• And Phil went on the Neutrality Studies show to argue that the Ukrainian counter-offensive was an evil scam.