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LONG DISCUSSIONS, 10 - 30 minutes

Melancholy of the post-Bernie left & Democratic Party messaging (podcast recommendation)

Complicated legacy of the Russian Revolution (podcast recommendation)

The closing of the American left

War in Ukraine & misunderstanding Vladimir Putin in the lead-up

Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal, media backlash & Kabul attack

Black Lives Matters protests & mass uprising 2020

Force the Vote, movement morale, two-pronged outreach & potential splits in the left

Why I'm voting for Bernie Sanders 2020

Warren clashes with Sanders over their 2018 meeting

Venezuela's present crisis and recent history (including podcast recommendations)

Angela Nagle's "Left Case Against Open Borders"

Looking back at the Bush & early Obama administrations (w/ discussion of CNN documentary)

Democrats take back the House in the 2018 midterms

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats Joe Crowley
(her unexpected victory, definitions of social democracy vs. democratic socialism, left-wing criticism of her Israel statements, right-wing and centrist attacks)



MIDSIZE DISCUSSIONS, 5 - 9 minutes

Reaganland & the right's position in 1979 vs. 2023

5 years of politics, podcasts & decline in other media consumption

Changes & consistency in 14 years since writing about the 2000s

The appeal & failures of the decadent right (podcast recommendation)

Roe v. Wade overturned & the role of Catholic intellectuals (podcast recommendations)

Remembering the lead-up to the Iraq War (podcast recommendation)

Climate change false optimism vs. doomerism & the problems for mass mobilization

(podcast recommendation)

The Biden Years vs. The Carter Years

Weakness of the right

Jessica Cisneros vs. Henry Cuellar, "progressive" albatross & issue/representative voting

Nina Turner loss & public comfort w/ power structure

Eviction moratorium & Cori Bush

Bipartisan Infrastructure bill & partisan reconciliation bill

Covid-19 & economic crisis

2020 Election & voter demographics

Stop the Steal & the January 6 insurrection

Stimulus bill & minimum wage leverage

Remembering Michael Brooks (podcast recommendation)

Aftermath of the 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign (my immediate reactions)

Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries

The young online left in 2016 - 2020

The need for left populism and outreach to independents/nonvoters

Blackpill vs. redpill vs. bluepill

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backlash as she navigates party and movement

Bolivian President Evo Morales is overthrown by a right-wing coup

The Tories beat Labour in the 2019 UK election

2019 UK election reactions (podcast recommendations)

Fallout from the Venezuelan Crisis (podcast recommendations)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez enters Congress & inside/outside strategy

"Race vs. class" on the left

Joseph Stalin's historical legacy/reputation (podcast recommendation)

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing

Ideology & The Contender 10 years after my review & 20 years after the movie

Vice News' coverage of Nicaragua (including podcast recommendation)

The Chilean Revolution (podcast recommendation)

Peace talks between the two Koreas

"Tankies", violence, and power

The Boomer-ang: the stereotype swings (too far?) from radical to reactionary

SHORT DISCUSSIONS, 1 - 4 minutes

Turmoil in late 60s Quebec (podcast recommendation)

Canadian podcasters on Canadian politics (podcast recommendation)

Farewell to Revolutions (podcast recommendation)

John Fetterman heads to the Senate (podcast recommendation)

The populist left in the midterms (podcast recommendation)

Repudiation of weird Republicans (podcast recommendation)

Declining left's need for a populist celebrity candidate (podcast recommendation)

The Hill fires Katie Halper after Israel criticism (podcast recommendation)

Barbara Ehrenreich & Nickel and Dimed (podcast recommendation)

Debating the Professional Managerial Class

Disillusionment with Catholic conservatism (podcast recommendation)

Christopher Lasch & liberalism (podcast recommendation)

Soviets as the official enemy in different eras

The Amish, 80s conservatism & Americana

Conservatives avoiding abortion ban consequences (podcast recommendation)

Group behavior & an anti-establishment third party (podcast recommendation)

Russian focus shifts to eastern Ukraine (podcast recommendation)

Dumbed-down Straussianism on the right (podcast recommendation)

New Right as aesthetic (podcast recommendation)

"Post-Covid" dissonance (podcast recommendation)

Ukrainian President Zelensky speaks to Grammys

Pundits forget the Covid market crash/bailout

Richard Wolff's economic analysis (podcast recommendations)

Revolutions podcast reflects on history (podcast recommendation)

Evolution of the term "woke" (podcast recommendation)

Catholic conversion & the study/practice of conservatism

My political & religious shifts in the early 2000s

American & German territorial conquest (podcast recommendation)

Juan Peron (podcast recommendation)

Argentina's dictatorship & upper class knowledge including The Official Story (podcast recommendation)

The Churchill/Stalin famines (podcast recommendation)

David Horowitz's rightward journey (podcast recommendation)

60s New Left challenging the current/recent left (podcast recommendation)

Forcing cultural change as a political project (podcast recommendation)

The Trump appeal (podcast recommendation)

Incoherence and/or triviality of conservative culture wars

Moment of political uncertainty

Labor struggles in 2021 - 22

Top-down galvanization of a movement

"Left" & other labels - clear or ambiguous?

Stepping back from political discourse

Political/personal conclusions on the state of things

The left's death knell two years ago...

Background behind Confederates in the Attic (podcast recommendation)

Social change vs. God's order (podcast recommendation)

Bridging the personal gap in online flame wars (podcast recommendation)

Child safety panics (podcast reference)

Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Know Your Enemy & the right (podcast recommendation)

Author Russell Banks on the 2020 election (podcast recommendation)

Can the left engage electorally, and if not, what's left? (podcast recommendation)

Medicare for All bill withdrawn in California (podcast recommendation)

Culture in the Cold War (podcast recommendation)

Allan Bloom & The Closing of the American Mind (podcast recommendation)

Rise of the young nationalist right (podcast recommendation)

Joan Didion's ambivalent conservatism (podcast recommendation)

Culture war disguising anti-public education agenda (podcast recommendation)

Breaking Points & the appeal of independent infotainment

Post-2020 podcast listening habits

Revolutions podcast passes 2017 in Russia (podcast recommendation)

Rashida Tlaib & Roger Waters on Michael Moore (podcast recommendation)

6 months into the Biden era

Next presidential election & electoralism

Trump, Harris, Buttigieg, and 2024 candidates

Very busy August 2021 including Cuomo resignation

Progressives as partisans

Progressive primary victories in summer 2020

Trump 2020's culture war obsession

Trump's uniqueness & collapse of right-wing populism

Comical end to Trump's campaign...but when would elites allow a coup?

Trump's second impeachment

Trump & Republicans going forward

Democrats & the left in 2022, 2024 & beyond

Indonesia & the Cold War (podcast recommendation)

Barbara Smith & the origin of identity politics (podcast recommendation)

Breadth of Bernie support

Left polarization around identity politics/culture war

Stephanie Kelton & Modern Monetary Theory (podcast recommendation)

Prospects of state failure/revolution in 2020 (podcast recommendation)

David Duke's political career (podcast recommendation)

Klansmen, Nazis, Pinochet, and where the right draws a line

The contemporary dirtbag left and the 60s New Left (podcast recommendation)

The loyal left vs. swing voters in the Democratic Party (podcast recommendation)

A-bomb anniversary & Hollywood propaganda (podcast recommendation)

Bad conditions for the Left in the UK (podcast recommendation)

Navalny, Putin, and nuanced analysis (podcast recommendation)

more tributes to Michael Brooks

New York Times' "Inequality Project" ignores Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders during the coronavirus crisis

The emerging Democratic electorate vs. populist insurgency

Bernie Sanders' political identity

Non-electoral left outreach

April 2020: Is it over or just beginning, and in what direction?

Online irony culture & politics (podcast recommendation)

Reaction to Bernie Sanders' defeat (podcast recommendation)

Journalists cover Tara Reade accusation (podcast recommendation)

South Carolina's black electorate (podcast recommendation)

Grassroots progressives & Resistance liberals (podcast recommendation)

Elizabeth Warren's betrayal (podcast recommendation)

Democrats' suburban moderate shift (podcast recommendation)

The Bernie Sanders campaign vs. marginal 2000s activism (podcast recommendation)

Tara Reade accuses Joe Biden of sexual assault (podcast recommendation)

Criticizing the Bernie campaign & the Brooklyn left (podcast recommendation)

Progressive leverage in the Democratic Party (podcast recommendation)

Podcasters look back at 1960 primary documentary (podcast recommendation)

Left & right populism (podcast recommendation)

Congress impeaches Donald Trump

Donald Trump assassinates Qassim Suleimani and ignites Iran crisis

Podcasters disappointed with Warren (podcast recommendations)

Latino outreach from the Sanders campaign (podcast recommendation)

Boomer presidents and the different generations of 2020 candidates

The question of open borders (podcast recommendation)

Ayanna Pressley vs. other Justice Democrats

Clarence Thomas and black nationalism (podcast recommendation)

Tensions in Democratic Socialists of America (podcast recommendation)

Working Families Party endorses Elizabeth Warren (podcast recommendation)

How to Hide an Empire book (podcast recommendation)

2020 campaign prognostication (podcast recommendation)

Hamstringing the regulatory state (podcast recommendation)

Linda Tirado's viral poverty post (podcast recommendation)

Revolutions podcast reaches Russian Revolution (podcast recommendation)

Social media influencers back Bernie Sanders (podcast recommendation)

Bolivia coup reactions (podcast recommendations)

Ilhan Omar & refugee policy (podcast recommendation)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first few months in Congress (podcast recommendation)

Bernie Sanders 2020 kickoff & the need for a populist mass movement (podcast recommendation)

Right-wing terrorism in the 90s

70% marginal tax rate

Adolph Reed/Democratic Socialists of America "class vs. race" controversy

Ambivalence about Dead Pundits Society podcast

End & aftermath of the Soviet Union (podcast recommendation)

"A Marxist-Reaganist Podcast" (podcast recommendation)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapbacks on Twitter

Barbara Lee loses Caucus chair race - Twitter's reaction

Bernie Sanders reacts to Andrew Gillum's loss (controversial "not racist" statement) 

Anticipating a Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign

Vic Berger's Walk Away video

Nazis & MAGA normies

Social democracy, electoralism, and reformism (podcast recommendation)

Identity politics controversy (podcast recommendation)

The French Revolution (podcast recommendation)

Left-wing candidates - centrist analysis & available electorate

John Oliver on Venezuela & the Empire Files response

TIME article on baby boomers "pulling up the ladder behind them"

Florida's Villages retirement community as a hotbed of Trump support

Progressives and the "white working class Trump supporter" myth/trap

The Left under Democratic administrations

Why Bernie Sanders looks like the 2020 frontrunner (as of early 2018)

President Xi Jinping (& U.S. national security establishment view of China)

Mark Wahlberg reshoot pay scandal as labor question

Right-wing hatred of actors and athletes as labor question

Conservatism that wants to have it both ways

National Enquirer's flattering coverage of Donald Trump

North Korea participates in the Pyeongchang Olympics

French response to #MeToo & the post-'68 French left disputes over sexuality

Life behind the Iron Curtain (podcast recommendation)

(many episodes contain additional political discussion among podcast recommendations)

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