But It Might Work For Us

But It Might Work For Us

By James A. SmithSociety & Culture
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But It Might Work For Us episodes

  • TPS91 MOMENTUM ORGANISERS | Sasha Das Gupta, Matt Hollinshead
    Momentum was founded in 2015 to defend the UK Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn from outside the Party, and to provide a hub of extra-parliamentary organising. Today, the organisation stands accused of having failed to adapt to a post-Corbyn political scene, of seeking technocratic fixes within Labour Party processes instead of taking on McCarthyism within the Party directly, and - with the flailing of Labour's Socialist Campaign Group - of not even having a meaningful Labour Left left to defend. Momentum Organisers think they have a plan to reverse Momentum's fortunes, and spoke to The Popular Show about prioritising trade union mobilisation, promoting working class and trade unionist candidates for parliament, and defending free speech and anti-Imperialism in UK politics.
    You can get involved in Momentum Organisers' campaign to lead Momentum's National Coordinating Group here: https://www.momentumorganisers.com 
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    1 hr
  • 🔐TPS90 PMC TRAITORS | Leighton Woodhouse TRAILER

    EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS AT Patreon.com/ThePopularPod: the continuation of our conversation with Leighton Woodhouse, covering the Dave Weigel/Felicia Sonmez meltdown at The Washington Post, and the Amazon trans 'die in' protest, and what they tell us about negotiations between elite companies and their employees.

    2 min
  • TPS89 JANUARY 6TH: CREATING A CONSENSUS | Leighton Woodhouse

    James A. Smith is joined by documentary filmmaker and journalist Leighton Woodhouse, to discuss the January 6th Hearings, their mediatization and traumatisation, and how the new idiom of elites in evidence there played out in the week's misadventures at the Washington Post.

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    52 min
  • TPS88 IMPERFECT VICTIMS | Natalie Shure
    Health researcher and New Republic columnist Natalie Shure joins the boys to talk Depp v Heard and what it tells us (or doesn’t) about the afterlife of #MeToo and generational gender politics, and Havana Syndrome: the psychosomatic chronic illness taking down US Intelligence service workers and diplomats. Subscribers to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod also got the continuation discussion, taking on the nature, diagnostic status, and political significance of ‘Long Covid’… don’t miss it!
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    57 min
  • 🔐 TPS87 LONG COVID | Natalie Shure TRAILER

    After many listener requests, we finally tackle Long Covid - the chronic illness described by the Social Sciences and Medicine journal as 'the first created through patients finding one another on Twitter'. Is Long Covid actually 'Long Lockdown', to what extent is it psychosomatic or an instance of social contagion, what are the politics of this apparently 'bottom up' development in diagnosis? Natalie Shure is a health researcher and columnist for New Republic. As well as this patrons-only episode, she joins us for TPS88, to discuss Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and 'Havana Syndrome'. To access this episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod, where you'll also have access to our complete archive of bonus episodes. 

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    4 min
  • 🔐TPS40 DID NEOLIBERALISM DIE? | Paolo Gerbaudo, Elena Louisa Lange TRAILER
    A POPULAR DEBATE format episode EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Paolo Gerbaudo (The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic) and Elena Louisa Lange (Value Without Fetish) get into a heated argument over whether populism and COVID-19 have opened the possibility of neoliberalism being transcended, or instead merely revived and expanded its exploitative power.
    2 min
  • TPS86 SUBLATION vi: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

    "This is insightful" - Briahna Joy Gray. Following the murder of nineteen children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas, James and David ask what has produced the rise of the school shooting in the 21st century, how the left should think about guns, and the question of conspiracy theories and disinformation around traumatic events.

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    1 hr 7 min
  • 🔐TPS85 SLOW TRAIN COMING
    The boys discuss the inflation crisis, 'Monkey Pox', the WHO Treaty debate, and the 'Hearing Voices' movement who live with the voices in their heads. To hear this episode, support our work and help us continue at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Donations also gratefully received at http://paypal.me/ThePopularShow
    5 min
  • TPS84 SUBLATION v: UKRAINE WAR
    The week when George W. Bush said 'Iraq' instead of 'Ukraine', World Health Organisation members met to debate taking pandemic policy yet further from democratic scrutiny, and the Economist Magazine predicts global famine if the war in Ukraine drags on. Why power today is 'audacious' and what 'this one-thingism' is doing to our politics. This episode also appears in video form at Doug Lain's Sublation Media YouTube channel. Support our work and help us continue at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod or http://paypal.me/ThePopularShow
    1 hr 4 min
  • 🔐 TPS43 HITCHES | Ben Burgis, Peter Hitchens TRAILER

    This is a special Patreon subscribers' episode. Support us on Patreon for less than the price of a pint: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps43-hitches-57702978 

    His support for the Iraq War so obliterated the reputation of Christopher Hitchens on the Left that the millennial and Gen Z socialists emerging since his death in 2011 are barely aware he existed. In a special crossover with Ben Burgis's Give Them an Argument show, we discuss Ben's attempts to change that with a new book, Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, Where He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters. To help us interrogate Hitchens's many contradictions, we welcome back to TPS his brother, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens: an author the elder Hitch once described as so reactionary, he felt he should a wear a garlic rosary while reading him.

    3 min

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‘And did it work for those people?’ ‘No it never does… But it might work for us!’