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

  • 🔐TPS RACE RECKONING tapes 3 | Walter Benn Michaels & Adolph Reed jnr.

    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.

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    4 min
  • TPS160 ROGUE'S GALLERY | Thomas Fazi

    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.

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    1 hr 28 min
  • 🔐TPS RACE RECKONING tapes 2 | Kenan Malik

    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'.

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    6 min
  • 🔐TPS159 DYLAN'S SHADOW KINGDOM (HITTING THE HARDER STUFF) | Allison Rapp
    The patrons-only continuation of our track-by-track analysis of Bob Dylan's Shadow Kingdom with rock writer Allison Rapp.
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    2 min
  • TPS158 DYLAN'S SHADOW KINGDOM (STARTING OFF WITH BURGUNDY) | Allison Rapp

    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)

    1 hr 5 min
  • TPS157 UNCANCELLABLE

    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.

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    1 hr 23 min
  • 🔐The COVID Critical tapes 4 - WHY ARE WE SICK? | Sunetra Gupta

    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.

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    1 min
  • 🔐The COVID Critical tapes 3 - NHS AFTER COVID | Robert Freudenthal TRAILER

    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.

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    2 min
  • 🔐TPS156 NATIONAL CONSERVATISMS | Alexander McKay TRAILER
    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!
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    12 min
  • TPS155 BECOMING FLORIDA | Alexander McKay

    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!

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    44 min

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