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  • Socialism and Human Nature (ft. Matt McManus)

    Socialism and Human Nature (ft. Matt McManus)
    2026/08/03

    Matt McManus joins Ben Burgis to talk about Matt’s new article “Socialists Aren’t Naive About Human Nature,” and more generally about why attempts to base anti-socialist arguments on human imperfection miss the point.

    Read Matt’s article:

    https://jacobin.com/2026/07/socialism-human-nature-morality

    Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

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    1 時間 12 分
  • A Socialist's Dialogue with Liberalism (ft. Matt McManus)

    A Socialist's Dialogue with Liberalism (ft. Matt McManus)
    2026/07/24

    Matt McManus joins Ben to talk about Matt's new article on Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen's "engagement with the best of the liberal tradition," and to wrap up Matt and Ben's conversation about Cohen from the last time Matt was on the show.

    Read Matt's article:

    https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-socialists-dialogue-with-liberalism/?ref=articles-and-essays-newslettert

    Read Ben's essay "Justice and Virtue":

    https://benburgis.substack.com/p/justice-and-virtue

    Link you can give your library to order Matt and Ben's new book on Cohen:

    https://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Marxism-Democratic-Socialism-Century/dp/3032028930/

    Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

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    1 時間 41 分
  • The Iran War’s Most Embarrassingly Wrong Pundits (ft. Branko Marcetic)

    The Iran War’s Most Embarrassingly Wrong Pundits (ft. Branko Marcetic)
    2026/07/22

    Branko Marcetic and Ben Burgis count down the commentators who were most embarrassingly wrong about Iran.

    Read Branko's article:

    https://jacobin.com/2026/07/iran-war-pundits-fox-trump

    Follow Branko on Twitter: @BMarchetich

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    1 時間 11 分
  • Meet Socialist Congressional Candidate Oliver Larkin

    Meet Socialist Congressional Candidate Oliver Larkin
    2026/07/17

    Oliver Larkin is a DSA-endorsed candidate running for Congress in FL-25.

    Check out his campaign website:

    https://www.oliverforcongress.com/issues

    Follow him on Twitter: @OliverALarkin

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    57 分
  • The Myth of Red Texas (ft. David Griscom)

    The Myth of Red Texas (ft. David Griscom)
    2026/07/14

    David Griscom joins us to talk about his excellent new book "The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South." Also, happy birthday to our Texan graphic designer J. Andrew World!

    Order the book:

    https://redemmas.org/titles/47536-the-myth-of-red-texas-cowboys-populism-and-class-war-in-the-radical-south/

    Follow David on Twitter: @DavidGriscom

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    1 時間 23 分
  • Debate Breakdown: Batya Ungar-Sargon vs. Brad Lander (ft. Cynthia Cook)

    Debate Breakdown: Batya Ungar-Sargon vs. Brad Lander (ft. Cynthia Cook)
    2026/07/10

    Pro-Trump pundit Batya Ungar-Sargon sat down with left-wing Congressional candidate Brad Lander to berate him about Israel and other subjects. Ben Burgis and Cynthia Cook give it a watch.

    Read Ben's article "DSA’s Critics Are Missing the Point About the Working Class" in Jacobin:

    https://jacobin.com/2026/07/class-politics-dsa-media-criticism

    Read the Michael Lange breakdown of the exit polling data Cynthia mentioned ("When Narratives Meet Facts"):

    https://www.michaellange.nyc/p/when-narratives-meet-facts

    Follow Cynthia on Twitter: @c_cook1988

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    2 時間 6 分
  • Matt McManus and Ben Burgis Have a New Book on G.A. Cohen, Out Today!

    Matt McManus and Ben Burgis Have a New Book on G.A. Cohen, Out Today!
    2026/07/02

    Ben Burgis chats with Matt McManus about Matt's Jacobin article "Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad."

    Read the article:

    https://jacobin.com/2026/05/saad-empa...

    Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

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    2 時間 16 分
  • Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad (ft. Matt McManus)

    Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad (ft. Matt McManus)
    2026/06/25

    Ben Burgis chats with Matt McManus about Matt's Jacobin article "Gad Saad Is Very Mad That His Books Are Bad and Sad."

    Read the article:

    https://jacobin.com/2026/05/saad-empathy-conservatism-book-review

    Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

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    1 時間 14 分