Give Them An Argument

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Give Them An Argument episodes

December 15, 2025 Ana Kasparian Tries to Teach Bill Maher Basic Things About Palestine
Many-time GTAA guest Ana Kasparian went on Bill Maher's podcast Club Random. Ben Burgis watches the part where they argue about Gaza and breaks it down.

Read Ben's article "The “Human Shields” Defense of Bombing Gaza’s Civilians Is Morally Bankrupt":

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/human-shields-bombing-gaza-palestine-israel-defense-forces-morally-bankrupt

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1 hr 24 min
December 12, 2025 Fuentes is a Symptom
Nick Fuentes is comically vile.

So, why is it so hard to exile him to whatever dark corner of the discourse he deserves to go back to?

One problem is that, when the whole landscape is soaking in ethnic essentialism, it's hard to draw the line at one particular version.

Read Ben's essay:

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/fuentes-is-a-symptom

Link for Andy's show:

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/meat-for-tea-presents-le-cirqu/1201459995272451/
Link for the Tallywacker one:
https://brendanboogie.substack.com/p/tallywacker-the-band-live-in-la
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54 min
December 10, 2025 The Penguin Edition of Marx's Capital is So Much Better Than the Princeton
The new edition of "Capital" has been getting a lot of buzz.

But...guys...it's really bad.

Read Ben's essay:

benburgis.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-fowkes-translation
Read Matt Huber's thread:
https://x.com/Matthuber78/status/1962512243343385070
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1 hr 20 min
December 08, 2025 Zohran is Right and the Online Left is Wrong
Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's critics on the Left think he's a sell-out for not backing a primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries or firing Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Some of them are about ready to denounce him as a fascist collaborator for sitting down with Donald Trump. Do any of these arguments add up?

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1 hr 16 min
October 21, 2025 Trump: We Lost Vietnam and Iraq Because of Woke
Donald Trump, who we keep hearing is a peacemaker, said his speech for the 250th anniversary of the founding of Navy that the U.S. only lost the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan because we got too "woke" about war tactics. Ben Burgis breaks it down.

Get tickets to the election night show in NYC:

https://www.barfreda.com/#/events/156966

Read Ben's article in Jacobin:

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-vietnam-afghanistan-war-woke

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1 hr 1 min
October 16, 2025 The Labor Theory of Value and Marx's Theory of Exploitation
Both supporters and opponents of the Labor Theory of Value often assume that the LTV and Marx's theory of capitalist exploitation are a package deal. Others, like G.A. Cohen, have questioned that link. Ben Burgis takes a look at the debate, arguing that these two ideas are related...but not in the way a lot of people assume.

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1 hr 33 min
October 14, 2025 Krystal Ball vs. Saagar Enjeti: Is it “Neo-Confederate” to Refuse to Cooperate with ICE?
Last week, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti had an interesting mini-debate on whether states and cities that don't cooperate with ICE are doing something wrong on the grounds that it involves a "neo-Confederate" rejection of federal supreamcy. Ben Burgis breaks it down.

Watch the 32-hour workweek video previewed at the end:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr35Wr0H9mM

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53 min
October 13, 2025 Curtis Yarvin Says We Can't Handle the Truth
Ambiguously fascist JD Vance guru Curtis Yarvin has written an odd little essay called "You Can't Handle the Truth." Ben Burgis responds!

Read the essay:

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/you-cant-handle-the-truth

Read Matt McManus's essay on Yarvin:

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/curtis-yarvin-thiel-carlyle-monarchism-reactionary

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1 hr 8 min
October 09, 2025 Robert Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain Argument Against Redistribution
Libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick made a classical argument against redistributing wealth and economic resources in his book "Anarchy, State & Utopia" based on a thought experiment about the basketball player Wilt Chamberlain. Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen takes it apart piece by piece. Ben Burgis discusses!

Read Ben's article about this in Jacobin:

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/capitalism-freedom-nozick-cohen-philosophy

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40 min
October 07, 2025 Debunking Pro-Israel Talking Points on Gaza
Today is the 2-year anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. Ben Burgis breaks the absurdity and evil of the way many people have tried to defend it, and puts the issue in a larger context.

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1 hr 8 min

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