
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
On the charges against France's Marine Le Pen.
[For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]
Alex and George discuss some main stories from the past month. After the death of Pope Francis, what's behind left-wing sympathy for the late Pope – and more widespread appreciation for Catholicism? Why do we want a progressive Pope, and would a reactionary one be better for us? Why is the US deporting people to Nayib Bukele's Salvadorian prisons, and what makes this so dystopian?
Then Alex calls up Jacobin's Europe editor David Broder to understand the charges against Marine Le Pen.
Is Marine Le Pen a victim of lawfare, or has she been hoist by her own petard?
What are the consequences for the Rassemblement National, and for French politics?
What has the European radical right's response been to Trump II so far?
And we respond to your questions and comments from the past month on:
Holding politicians to account on free speech
Listening to poetry
Redistribution as the obvious solution to the crisis
Clientelism and hyperpolitics
4.5
208208 ratings
On the charges against France's Marine Le Pen.
[For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]
Alex and George discuss some main stories from the past month. After the death of Pope Francis, what's behind left-wing sympathy for the late Pope – and more widespread appreciation for Catholicism? Why do we want a progressive Pope, and would a reactionary one be better for us? Why is the US deporting people to Nayib Bukele's Salvadorian prisons, and what makes this so dystopian?
Then Alex calls up Jacobin's Europe editor David Broder to understand the charges against Marine Le Pen.
Is Marine Le Pen a victim of lawfare, or has she been hoist by her own petard?
What are the consequences for the Rassemblement National, and for French politics?
What has the European radical right's response been to Trump II so far?
And we respond to your questions and comments from the past month on:
Holding politicians to account on free speech
Listening to poetry
Redistribution as the obvious solution to the crisis
Clientelism and hyperpolitics
493 Listeners
1,399 Listeners
1,507 Listeners
8,794 Listeners
565 Listeners
553 Listeners
153 Listeners
928 Listeners
3,177 Listeners
175 Listeners
210 Listeners
201 Listeners
259 Listeners
704 Listeners
341 Listeners