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If Fordism characterised the mid-20th century, do we now live under Muskism? We discuss w/ the authors of "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" 👇

🔑 UNLOCKED 🔑 Listen to our previously Subscriber Only conversation with Dino Guastella on C. Wright Mills' White Collar, the middle classes and post-mass culture. 👇

Here's what's coming this month in Bunga World:

Are the classical ideologies (socialism, conservatism, and liberalism) all dead in 2026?

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Why racism cannot be eradicated without overcoming capitalism. Our guest, Paul Gomberg on what it means to "alienate" race and the limits of many contemporary anti-racist arguments + more. 👇

Why Mark Carney's speech was a watershed moment —@DrLeeJones

Listening to people talk about the Super Bowl like...

🫡 Does Trump's foreign policy reflect a paleocon or neocon worldview and are we back to a 19th century-style 'spheres of influence' arrangement? And who wants to play a game of RISK? 🎧 Listen to our NEW EPISODE w/ Jean-François Drolet:

For this keeping the Bunga party going with us this month:

There are weeks where decades happen and...you know the rest. We look back at January...and on to the rest of 2026 in our newsletter: 📚 👉️ buff.ly/EoLb10R

What a year, huh (Captain, it's January)

New year, new rigour: setting out priorities

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Why psychoanalysis, with its core concept of the unconscious, should have acted as a defense against the rise of "wokeness" in the field, says psychoanalyst Christie Offenbacher From our episode on ill-fated attempts at solving social problems through therapy:

Highly symbolic attachments to singular leaders like Modi or Trump isn't about too much democracy, says Sandipto Dasgupta. From our latest episode on the making of independent India: 🎧: www.patreon.com/posts/528-he...

"You can not have social transformation and free trade..." Our guest @panagsotiris on the ways in which international capital = more exploitation

And while we've got your attention—tell us what guest(s) you'd like us to have on in 2026!

What episode got you talking in 2025? Did JD Vance Kill the PMC? with a special appearance (apparition?) by @ghostofchristo1: 🎧 LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/487-di...

We wouldn't want to spend the End of the End of History without anyone else but you...

What Bungacast episode got listeners talking the most in 2025? 🗣️ @jhensonpogue LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/495-he...

What were the Must Listen Bungacasts of 2025? 🎧 Start here: bungacast.podbean.com/e/461-welcom...

What happens when Bungacast visits a small town in New Mexico? 🎉 Find out: www.patreon.com/posts/526-co...

🎬 MOVIE CLUB 🎬 We get a mega-dose of American paranoia and talk Eddington, One Battle After Another and Bugonia. Grab your popcorn: www.patreon.com/posts/526-co...

What is the crisis of authority? @DamageMag's Amber Trotter:

📚 From the Archives 📚 Last year, we talked with @CLiuAnon about how the changing culture wars have changed, why everyone is a populist now, and about how we should defend the canon. LINK: www.patreon.com/posts/426-ex...

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 W/ @damagemag's Amber Trotter on overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority. 🗣️ What is driving the explosion in mental health diagnoses? 🗣️ Does capitalism make us ill? Is blaming 'capitalism' abstractly part of the problem?

Our convo w/ Amber Trotter on overmedicalisation and the crisis of authority is out today! Here's what else is on deck in December: ☑️ (As always, subscribe to get the full slate of episodes)

If politics seem stuck in a doom loop, is there a possibility of a <gulp> hope loop? + more in our literary post about our oral and video podcast in which we lament the death of literacy. Got it?

🙋 What exactly do we mean by political legitimacy? We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker