The Popular Show

An audiobook taster of James's new book So You've Been Ideologically Discredited PLUS an invitation for all our listeners, to the book launch at the Stapleton Tavern, Finsbury Park, Monday April 15th/7pm.

The preeminent researcher of the American 'deep state' and its hand in the great domestic crimes - from JFK to 9/11 - returns with the story of the other side of his career, as a Berkley poet and translator, and friend and collaborator of the major Polish poet, Czesław Miłosz. Miłosz was in the anti-Nazi resistance in Poland during the Second World War and opposed the Stalinist regime thereafter. Peter Dale Scott discusses his political and creative differences with Miłosz and how he has come to embrace Miłosz's vision for cultural and creative solutions to the violence of power. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Todd Michael Schultz is a musician and author, and the partner of Bret Easton Ellis, one of the world's most famous novelists and screenwriters. In an emotional and candid discussion, Todd lays out his vision of creativtiy, the dangers of navigating the LA elite, and what it's like to love a genius. Safe to say this is the most unique epsiode we've ever put out. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full and UNCUT video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Newsweek editor and Daily Mail foreign correspondent David Gardner is author of 9/11: The Conpiracy Theories and COVID-19: The Conspiracy Theories. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Exclusive to subscribers, the SECOND HALF of James's debate with Doug Lain on the contempt with which some on the left have shown towards pro-Palestinian activism. Click through to Sublation Media's YouTube channel for the first part of James's defence of the pro-Gaza protest movement.

For Patreon subscribers. Was the October 7th Hamas attack 'blowback' or is there more to the story? Ex-International Relations Prof turned deep state researcher Piers Robinson joins us for a history of 'propoganda of deed' and the deep structural events of the 21st century: 9/11, Syria, COVID-19, and how they can help us understand the present crisis. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full version of this show, video of all our releases, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Ex-Syriza man and SOAS prof Costas Lapavitsas joins us to raise hell about the EU, Bidenomics, the economic effects of COVID lockdowns, new multipolar uprisings, and who screwed up worse: the Greek or the UK left? PLUS his new book with EReNSEP Writing Collective⁠, The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Joshua Dávila of The Blockchain Socialist Podcast talks to David about Blockchain Radicals: HOW CAPITALISM RUINED CRYPTO AND HOW TO FIX IT (Repeater). We talk about how the left has ceded the future of technology and lessons they can learn from the past. This interview is deeply optimistic and dispels many of the myths and hangups the left has about new tech and the future of organizing. Techno-optimism for the win! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow  

Counter-Populism is the political project of our moment: measures introduced as Counter-Terrorism have been turned against dissenting members of domestic populations on the left and right. Journalist Matt Taibbi takes us on a barnstormer journey from the ‘Russiagate' conspiracy against Trump and the anti-antisemitism campaign against Corbyn, the rise of anti-COVID disinformation measures where the US security services and Biden administration brought social media companies in house, and the final domino in Israel's propaganda campaign today. PLUS how Matt sees his dealings with Elon Musk now! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

PART 1! of our monster breakdown of the latest release from Bob Dylan: ‘The Complete Budokan, 1978'. Jack Frayne-Reid joins us from the Reel Politik podcast to… decline to discuss the afterlife of populism and the ordeal of Corbynism, but instead to analyse some great music. PART 2 is exclusive to our Patreon subscribers. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, THE EXCLUSIVE PART 2 CONTINUATION, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Joe Guinan returns! From Cleveland to Preston, Joe is one of the most rigorous theorists and practitioners of 21st century socialism as ‘community wealth building', and the pro-Brexit wonk who shaped Corbynism's best policies. Our Thanksgiving Special rattles through the #UKFiles revelations on the relation between the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Labour Together, and the dark money that bought Keir Starmer the Labour leadership; what Bidenomics is getting wrong, crybully centrism's ‘delusional moment', and the liberatory meaning of Norman Finkelstein's appearance on Piers Morgan. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

New kinds of protest and direct action against weapons manufacturers and the Democratic Party, Israel propaganda fails, and the biggest propaganda fail of all… TikTok Zoomers getting into Osama bin Laden. All on the docket with investigative journalists Olly Haynes (Novara Media, Guardian, Dissent), and Matt Kennard (Declassified UK). Additional interviews with organisers at the BAE Systems protest in Chatham, Kent, Friday 10th November 2023 by Olly Haynes. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Following TPS179's account of how Gaza is changing the left, Rhyd Wildermuth returns for an analysis of its developing effect on the right: from Candace Owens's breaking ranks against Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson sharing his browsing history with his son, Vivek Ramaswarmy's Republican debate remarks, the Jordan-Petersonification of anti-antisemitism, and when that red heifer is getting born! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Following Claire Fox's appearance on The Popular Show last year, James was invited to 'The Battle of Ideas', the Spiked-connected event for political and cultural debate promising 'free speech allowed'. The event has an aura of notoriety on the left, and back in 2010, Jenny Turner described something of its oddness and agenda in the pages of the London Review of Books. Meeting TPS-favourite, Conter.Scot's David Jamieson there, James found quite a different event in 2023, one which clarified a lot of the realignment going on the left, right and reactionary centrist parts of the political spectrum today. For the full (long!) discussion, become a subscriber now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

If COVID-19 carried forms of propogandisation and securitisation developed for foreign policy into the domestic sphere, the Ukraine war showed us what they look like when brought back to war. To continue joining the dots into a new crisis, University of Leicester's Tara McCormack returns to discuss Israel's plans for Gaza, protest and free speech in the UK, Zelensky's prospects, and the UK COVID inquiry. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Egyptian activist and writer Nihal El Aasar joins us to discuss Gaza's neighbour Egypt's place in Israel's plans, the history of Israeli-Egyptian relations, and how Egyptian and other Arab elites are reacting to popular and activist feeling towards Palestine in the region. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The assault on Gaza has the potential to throw the western political spectrum into disarray. On cancel culture, COVID, and Ukraine, the radical left has for too long allowed the right to lead on free speech and even opposition to military intervention: but apparently no more. As most of the right reverts to type on the defence of Israel, and normies drift to pro-Palestinianism, can the left retain its newly discovered assertiveness, solidarity, militancy, and courage? Dan Evans and Rhyd Wildermuth join us to discuss! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Dissecting the Gaza crisis, Zionism, liberal exhaustion and their backstory in the Cold War's reactionary liberal intellectuals, with the great historian Sam Moyn. Prof Moyn's new book is Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

SOAS's Professor Gould joins us to discuss the Gaza crisis, the recent acceleration of the clampdown on free speech and protest in the West, the materialist approach to antisemitism, and her own brush with cancellation for her criticisms of Israel. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Previously exclusive to Patreon subscribers. The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first of the "exes" never quite goes away. Legendary socialist feminist and Marxist theorist Nancy Fraser joins TPS to discuss how this core insight can offer an overdue reassessment of the left's current canards on the family, race, the environment, and 'the political'. This is a big one!  Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

David and James jump on to discuss MAGA's unprecedented defenestration of the House of Representatives, Kamala's role in the power struggle within the Democrats, the Tory Party's extremely online conference AND the latest hit job on Roger Waters. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full audio and video versions of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

For Patreon subscribers. How come the mass protest movements of the 2010s almost always got the reverse of what they demanded? The Jakarta Method author Vincent Bevins is back with a new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, and joins TPS to discuss the Arab Spring, Ukraine's 2014 Euromaidan uprising, and Brazil's anti-corruption protests. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

With the UK left cut out of the Labour Party more than any time in its history, a coalition of left organisations is calling for a new Party of the left to contest the 2024 General Election. Jackson Caines of 'Transform Politics' joins TPS to answer why the left can't just 'stay and fight' and push Keir Starmer to the left, what's wrong with the Green Party, and what to do about the left's blindspots over the petite bourgeoisie, COVID, and Ukraine? Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The revival of a mass, discontented and angry feminism with the Women's March and #MeToo seemed to betoken a break from ameliorating liberalism. Seven years on, we must conclude that it has... although not in the way that 'socialist feminists' hoped. Jilly Boyce Kay joins us to discuss today's 'chaos feminism': the new postliberal 'feminists against progress', the Femcel Femosphere, and the TikTok influencers teaching women to 'game' their relations with men. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

A Compliance-Industrial Complex now swamps every crisis with new layers of governance products, surveillance, regulation, 'experts', and opportunities for financialization... all in the moralised name of fighting problems 'no one can be for'. Norwegian Anthropologist Tereza Østbø Kuldova joins us for an unmissable analysis of the dynamic, drawing on her book Compliance Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The role of Prince Andrew is one of the big 'known unknowns' in the Jeffrey Epstein international sex trafficking and espionage scandal, and Britain has this week taken major steps to keep it unknown. When biographer Andrew Lownie attempted to view correspondence relating to the Prince's controversial trade envoy role, he was told the papers have now been locked until 2065. Lownie joins us to discuss the British State protects its secrets, even when they are in the public interest, and what he's learned so far about the controversial prince. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Why does it seem there's so much at stake in politics, when neither left, nor right, nor centre appears capable of changing anything about people's lives? Benjamin Studebaker joins James and David to discuss the left-wing case for conscription, the Republican Party primary field, the return of COVID mask mandates, the political outlook of Gen Z, and his new theoretical book on American politics: The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Author of Tyranny, Inc. and founding editor of Compact Magazine Sohrab Ahmari joins TPS to discuss his critique of American capitalism from the right, giving Joe Biden his due, the right-wing case for trade unions and equality of outcomes, and his mission to get conservatives to be less cringe and to love markets less. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over  Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers. Trucker Gord Magill returns to TPS to reflect on the most novel form of resistance thrown out by the COVID-19 pandemic: the Canada Truckers convoy against vaccine mandates. James and Gord discuss Justin Trudeau's invocation of emergency powers against the truckers, the failure of the left and the unions to respond adequately, and the alternative to 'from above' legalistic approaches to COVID overreach that have come to dominate the COVID critical position in recent months. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Author of Tyranny, Inc. and founding editor of Compact Magazine Sohrab Ahmari joins TPS to discuss his critique of American capitalism from the right, giving Joe Biden his due, the right-wing case for trade unions and equality of outcomes, and his mission to get conservatives to be less cringe. Help us develop The Popular Show and get this and many more extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

At the start of 2020, the West African country of The Gambia was emerging from decades of dictatorship and optimistic about a future of democracy, tourism, and international investment. Then COVID-19 hit, and in common with most of Africa, the country adopted the WHO's guidance to lock down. This was an economic, social and developmental disaster, argue The COVID Consensus author Toby Green and Gambian historian and broadcaster Hassoum Ceesay, and the subsequent expropriation of the country's resources constiute a form of neocolonialism. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the video version of this, plus loads of extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

A new format where top scholars and commentators respond to our biggest interviews! In TPS166 THE TWO EXES, we spoke to socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her groundbreaking new work of Marxist theory Cannibal Capitalism. In the inaugural TPS ROUNDTABLE, friends of TPS Jilly Boyce Kay, Olly Haynes, and Mareile Pfannebecker convene to debate Fraser's significance for protest, political movements, and political theory. SUBSCRIBE now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for the full interview with Nancy Fraser, or check out this taster @ the Popularity Media YouTube channel: 'A Defeated Left is a Dangerous Thing'. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first of the "exes" never quite goes away. Legendary socialist feminist and Marxist theorist Nancy Fraser joins TPS to discuss how this core insight can offer an overdue reassessment of the left's current canards on the family, race, the environment, and 'the political'. This is a big one! Subscribe now on Patreon for audio and video versions of the full interview! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for the complete video versions of the #TPSRaceReckoning series and more. Remi Adekoya, a former journalist and academic whose working life has spanned Nigeria, Poland, and the UK, joins #TPSRaceReckoning to discuss his provocative new book. It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth argues that the focus of current antiracist projects on personal bias (still more the cultural baggage of 'whiteness') is wrongheaded, and that racism will remain until the wealth discrepancy and underdevelopment of the countries in which most black people reside is overcome.

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for more #TPSRaceReckoning with Remi Adekoya and Kenan Malik, plus video versions of this and all our recent episodes. Adolph Reed jr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachael Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is No Politics But Class Politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Legendary historian Harvey J. Kaye returns to TPS to make the case for a Marianne Williamson Presidency: the second in our 'cases for' 2024 Presidential candidates series. David asks Harvey about his work as Williamson's unofficial adviser, her past as a spirituality and self help author and speaker, how her relationship to America's radical history differs from that of Bernie Sanders, how 'Medicare for All' fell off the map of progressive politics. Complete video for this and all new episodes is exclusive to Patreon subscribers. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over  Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with metwdical  and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and   activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now  releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers. Stanford Professor of Medicine and Great Barrington Declaration  co-author Jay Bhattacharya joins TPS for a wide-ranging discussion of  the lockdown debate, the mistakes in our vaccine policy, the controversy  of Long COVID, the false lessons being drawn from the COVID-19  pandemic, and how to avoid falling prey to the same top-down approaches in the next one. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for more #TPSRaceReckoning with Remi Adekoya, Adolph Reed jr and Walter Benn Michaels, plus video versions of this and all our recent episodes. Kenan Malik is a writer and commentator on race, a columnist for the Observer newspaper, and most recently author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. In the second of our 'Race Reckoning' interviews, Kenan discusses the recent history of antiracism and identity politics, the logic antiracists risk having in common with the racists they abhor, and the political significance of 'left antisemitism'. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The first of our 'cases for' the US presidential candidates seeking to replace Joe Biden in 2024! Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Hegemony and the Tripartite State, answers questions on the importance of the assassinations of RFK jnr's father and uncle to the subsequent course of US politics, why he thinks RFK jnr is a bigger opportunity for the left than Bernie was, and RFK's controversial positions on vaccination and Israel. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. Full video of all three shows is streaming on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod now. Adolph Reed jnr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachel Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is No Politics But Class Politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Economist and 'lockdown sceptic' Thomas Fazi returns to the show to tackle inflation, the departure of Boris Johnson, ex-chancellor George Osborne's defence of austerity at the UK's COVID inquiry, RFK jnr's bringing Ukraine and COVID scepticism into mainstream US politics, and the reassesssment of Silvio Berlusconi after his death last week. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows PLUS FULL VIDEO FOR THIS SHOW at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Full video streaming now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. Kenan Malik is a writer and commentator on race, a columnist for the Observer newspaper, and most recently author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. In the second of our 'Race Reckoning' interviews, Kenan discusses the recent history of antiracism and identity politics, the logic antiracists risk having in common with the racists they abhor, and the political significance of 'left antisemitism'. Help us develop The Popular Show and get this and many more extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The patrons-only continuation of our track-by-track analysis of Bob Dylan's Shadow Kingdom with rock writer Allison Rapp. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Our engagement with the late work of Bob Dylan continues with a track-by-track analysis of Shadow Kingdom, the newly-released soundtrack album to the pandemic-era film of the same name, in which Dylan reimagines thirteen of his early songs. To help us is Allison Rapp, assistant editor of Ultimate Classic Rock magazine and among the zoomers offering a new interpretation of the great boomer artists.  Support us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for part 2 ('hitting the harder stuff'), plus the complete video version of our discussion with Alison. Bob Dylan recordings featured in this episode:  Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) (Shadow Kingdom version) When I Paint My Masterpiece (Shadow Kingdom version) When I Paint My Masterpiece (live bootleg, 1997) Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) (live bootleg 2022) Queen Jane Approximately (live bootleg 1993)  I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (live bootleg 2023)  Tombstone Blues (Shadow Kingdom version) To Be Alone with You (live bootleg, 1991)

David and James reunite to discuss the cancellation of Roger Waters, the ongoing weaponisation of antisemitism against a sitting mayor in the UK Labour Party, RFK jnr. and Israel PLUS Hannah Gadsby's 'Pablomatic' Picasso exhibition. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical  and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and  activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now  releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults,  exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84070725/ Oxford epidemiologist and Great Barrington Declaration author Sunetra Gupta returns to TPS to discuss the 'immunity debt' hypothesis that the long impact of lockdown is making us sick now, the return of Strep A/Scarlet Fever as a killer in Britain, and whether US cities are right to demand a return to public masking. Sunetra speaks candidly about advising Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and about how COVID could have been different with the principles of Jeremy Corbyn's 2019 manifesto. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83684992 NHS psychiatrist Robert Freudenthal returns to TPS to discuss how misconceptions about the structure of the NHS cause us to misread the dynamics both of the NHS during COVID and the NHS strikes of winter 2022. Robert gives an inside view of how medical practitioners view their work, and how it caused much of their leadership to miss the significance of the relationship between medicine and power that was so expanded during COVID. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The Patrons-only continuation of our discussion with Alexander McKay, on the significance of Ron DeSantis, the Right after Trump and Boris, wokewashing and anti-wokewashing, and the coming Starmer disaster... plus! Dinner with Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Wrong-footed by 'the blob' of the Civil Service and the UK's capitalist institutions, the UK Right watches enviously as Ron DeSantis launches his presidential bid using the dysfunctional 'Twitter Spaces'! This is the first part of an outstanding Marxist-Leninist interpretation of the current condition of the transatlantic left and right, with Alexander McKay, of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute. Part 2 (plus video for Part 1!) is exclusive to Patreon subscribers of The Popular Show! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a series of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82925426/ A view from the corporate offices is provided by Jennifer Sey, Brand President and prospective CEO of Levi's, until her opposition to school closures during COVID cost her her job. Jennifer discusses how Levi's 'woke capitalism' blended seamlessly with its siding with maximalist COVID measures, how the US upper class sees education, and the generational dynamic in the corporate world's attitude to social justice today.TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL.

A taste for patrons of a major series from TPS, coming this summer, reassessing the liberal left's new idiom of race. Remi Adekoya lectures at the University of York, UK, and is the author of 'It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth' Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow