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

  • 🔐TPS20 HOW TO LOSE SUBSCRIBERS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE | Toby Young

    A third early TPS from the vault, now exclusive to TPS Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81889408 Originally published April 10th 2021. We netted the Spectator and Quillette editor, and founder of the 'Free Speech Union' Toby Young, for a provocative chat about how the Right sees the Left, and how the Right sees itself. Focussing on the questions of lockdown scepticism and Britain's alleged free speech crisis, Toby provides an analysis of the Conservative Party and British liberalism that may surprise left-wing listeners.

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    7 min
  • 🔓TPS146 WHICH ELITES? | Matthew Goodwin UNLOCKED

    The long 2016 of Brexit and Trump elevated a cohort of political scientists who had predicted the rise of populism and promised solutions that would inoculate against it. Of this group, Matthew Goodwin's discourse is today itself a 'populist' invective against the woke liberal elite. Has he 'gone native'? And how does his analysis of elites shape up against that  of The Popular Show? This epsiode was originally exclusive to our Patreon supporters. The full video version remains subscriber-only @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps146-which-81155047

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    50 min
  • 🔐TPS21 RIGHT-HAND WOMAN | Karie Murphy

    For Patrons: Another one from the TPS vault: originally released April 21st 2021 and the source of a Mail on Sunday report. Karie Murphy was Chief of Staff to Jeremy Corbyn from 2016-2019, and is a great British trade unionist and socialist in her own right. In a rare interview [to this date her last] Karie retreads the rise and fall of the Corbyn project in Britain, settles some scores, and gives an energising account of the likely direction of the younger left energies that remain.

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    2 min
  • TPS147 SHOULD WE NUKE AI?
    AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky has argued that the pause on AI creation agreed by tech leaders isn't enough: we have to threaten nuclear strikes on countries that don't comply. David is back... PLUS James looks back at the critique of current tech in his books Other People's Politics and Work Want Work.
    39 min
  • 🔐TPS148 HOW TO STOP MASS SHOOTINGS
    For Patrons: after the Nashville and Louisville massacres, James and David outline their three rules for interpreting mass shootings, at a moment when every identity group can get in on the action! Full audio and video for this episode and our complete archive of patrons episodes at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod
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    4 min
  • 🔐TPS19 EASTER RISING | Terry Eagleton

    Flashback for Patrons to 2021, when James and Sublation Media's Alfie Bown caught up with the legendary Marxist literary critic (and their former professor at the University of Manchester), Terry Eagleton. Terry offers some needed historical and spiritual perspective on the Left's current state of defeat, and offers an Easter message of the lessons he's found in Christianity for understanding the complexities of our shared desire for a better world. Click through here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81255001

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    2 min
  • 🔐TPS146 WHICH ELITES? | Matthew Goodwin

    The long 2016 of Brexit and Trump elevated a cohort of political scientists who had predicted the rise of populism and promised solutions that would inoculate against it. Today Goodwin's discourse is itself a 'populist' invective against the woke liberal elite. Has he 'gone native'? And how does his analysis of elites shape up against that of The Popular Show?  Get the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81124650

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    5 min
  • TPS145 THE LONG GAME | Antony Lerman

    How did the once-controversial thesis that there is a 'new antisemitism', uniting Muslims, the left, and self-loathing anti-Zionist Jews against Israel, become the common sense of political commentary on Jews today? A new book by antisemitism scholar Antony Lerman details the history of this idea, its spread through organisations, and - finally - its crystallisation in the campaign against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party. Complete video version of this episode available to Patreon subscribers!


    TPS on Joe Glasman and the Campaign Against Antisemitism (discussed by Antony and James in this episode): https://youtu.be/NHqTVS6VdM8

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    1 hr 10 min
  • 🔐TPS144 THE LONGEST REVOLUTION | Juliet Mitchell

    For Patreon subscribers: a pioneering figure of the New Left, Second Wave Feminism, and psychoanalysis, Juliet Mitchell joins us to look back on theorising socialist feminism in the 1960s, reconciling feminists to Freud in the 1970s, and to discuss her pathbreaking current project: making psychoanalysts see that sibling relationships (and the trauma of the toddler) are as important to our development as parental ones.

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    2 min
  • TPS143 🇨🇵FRENCH CARNAGE | Charles Devellennes
    A full *video version* of this episode is available to subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. As French President Emmanuel Macron overrides parliament to raise the age of retirement in France, we speak to Charles Devellennes, author of The Macron Régime: The Ideology of the New Right in France (Bristol University Press), about Macron as the model of a new kind of 'technopopulist' political leader in the West, and the gilets jaunes movement's resistance to him.
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    58 min

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