After a long delay, this week I am delighted to welcome another Irishman to the show, Chekov Feeney. Chekov is the man behind the blog chekov.org, where he reflects and theorizes on his 20 year journey through leftist politics, science and the media. Chekov also works as a Senior Research Fellow in the Computer Science department in Trinity College Dublin. We talk about the good and the bad of radical left wing organisations, the empirical evidence for the liberal and Marxist world views, the need for new theoretical work on the left, and the dramatic political events unfolding in Greece. We join the conversation as Chekov is discussing his recent work in the field of computational history.

You can find his blog here: http://www.chekov.org

Enjoy!

The music on this show was:

‘The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters’ by Sun Ra and his Arkestra
'One More Robot' by The Flaming Lips
'Mary, Don't You Weep' by Aretha Franklin
‘The River’ by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard