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Jun 13
Who will become the hegemonic global power (or not) at the End of the End of History?
Listen to Bungacast, the international politics podcast.
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🚨BREAKING: Canada booed the USA flag at the World Cup opening ceremony
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in 2016 I could have captioned this “the grad student, the postdoc, and the junior prof” and got 36000 likes. Now I have to add “at Hitler University” or else The Left hires a guy to punch me in the dick at Uniqlo
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Jun 10
It's no coincidence that the countries most critical of the Iran War are the ones that have weaned themselves off U.S.-dominated global oil markets.
—Benjamin Bradlow
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
Benjamin Bradlow joins us to talk about the world-historic impact of the Hormuz Strait closure.
💬 Who are the winners and losers of the Iran Energy Shock (and why aren't markets losing?)
💬 Will China ultimately be the big beneficiary?
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🎧️ LISTEN: buff.ly/tPijQi7
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Jun 8
The two best statistics in the WSJ’s genuinely great article on North Korea’s economic boom:
Pyongyang built more housing last year than LA. (Says something about CA housing dysfunction).
North Korea assembled more cellphones than the USA.
(Assuming the #s are true!)
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OK, fine, time to get @DUALIPA on the pod to talk about hauntology and retro futurism
Jun 5
Gwyneth Paltrow just invited Anduril cofounder @traestephens onto the Goop podcast — and, in a wide-ranging conversation about love, war, God, and Gwyneth’s leftist husband who thinks she’s “becoming a Republican”… Trae explains Anduril’s core goal: to engineer lasting peace.
America, Trae explains, needs AI-assisted weapons that can execute missions without endangering American lives.
Sometimes conflict is necessary. Gwyneth gets it.
Full breakdown from @harrissockel 👇
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ICYMI: Here's the audio from last week's Bungacast live show in London:
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May 27
Everyone seems pretty miserable, and journalists, economists, and scholars want to know why. The trouble is they can’t seem to blame the most obvious culprit: the economy.
damagemag.com/p/the-antisoci…
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In Mythologies, Barthes argues that myth is depoliticized speech.
Here's a clip from our Reading Club episode on Barthes' 1957 classic: Mythologies
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This is the kind of thing Gorbachev would have been posting in 1990
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🎧️ NEW EPISODE 🎧️
Audio from Thursday's live show held at @verdur_in, London
The OG Bunga Boys - Alex, George, and Phil - present their takes, followed by responses from contributing editor @DrLeeJones and @Nina_Power_ audience questions.
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Trump reportedly lashed out at Netanyahu on their call earlier today, calling the Israeli PM "fucking crazy" -Axios
Per one source, Trump at one point yelled at Netanyahu: "What the fuck are you doing?"
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