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The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. Weekly episodes on the crises of our times.

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Why Mark Carney's speech was a watershed moment

—@DrLeeJones
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Listening to people talk about the Super Bowl like...
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
🫡 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:
February 3, 2026 at 1:46 PM
For this keeping the Bunga party going with us this month:
February 2, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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
buff.ly
January 30, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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:
January 29, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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...
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
January 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"You can not have social transformation and free trade..."

Our guest @panagsotiris on the ways in which international capital = more exploitation
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
And while we've got your attention—tell us what guest(s) you'd like us to have on in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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...
December 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We wouldn't want to spend the End of the End of History without anyone else but you...
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What Bungacast episode got listeners talking the most in 2025?

🗣️ @jhensonpogue

LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/495-he...
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
What were the Must Listen Bungacasts of 2025?

🎧 Start here: bungacast.podbean.com/e/461-welcom...
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What happens when Bungacast visits a small town in New Mexico?

🎉 Find out: www.patreon.com/posts/526-co...
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🎬 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...
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What is the crisis of authority?

@DamageMag's Amber Trotter:
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
📚 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...
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🚨 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?
December 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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)
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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?
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🙋 What exactly do we mean by political legitimacy?

We discuss w/ @BMStudebaker
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The irony of progressive education is that it actually shuts people in their place rather than open doors.

—@varnvlog
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🤔 The problem with a post-literate society is that we don't have a model of an oral culture without memory.

If the internet has fried our brain, how do we go back?

Listen to @varnvlog on the newest Bungacast!
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Time is a flat circle
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM