Give Them An Argument

By Ben Burgis

Give Them An Argument is a YouTube show and podcast dedicated to building a smarter, funnier and more strategic Left. New episodes are live on YouTube on Monday nights with an exclusive postgame fo

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How many episodes does Give Them An Argument have?

The podcast currently has 274 episodes available.

Give Them An Argument episodes:

August 16, 2024 Season 6 Episode 29: Lukacs and the Destruction of Reason
Matt McManus and Daniel Tutt join Ben Burgis to talk about Marxist theoretician Georg Lukács's analysis of right-wing thought in his book, "The Destruction of Reason."

Preorder Ben's pamphlet "Four Essays on Palestine" from Everyday Analysis:

https://everyday-analysis.sellfy.store/p/four-essays-on-palestine-by-ben-burgis-print-and-digital-edition/

Read Daniel's article on Lukács:

https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/02/the-question-of-worldview-and-class-struggle-in-philosophy-on-the-relevance-of-lukacss-worldview-marxism-and-the-destruction-of-reason/

Read Matt's article on Lukács:

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/georg-lukacs-irrationalism-right-wing-thought-philosophy

Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

Follow Daniel on Twitter: @DanielTutt

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

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2h 8min
August 09, 2024 Season 6 Episode 28: We Have Bernie at Home (ft. Jason Myles)
This is Revolution host Jason Myles joined Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew to chat about his new essay "This is What You Want, This is What You Get," which uses the classic Eddie Murphy "We've got McDonalds at home" bit to talk about the election and the overall state of American politics at a moment when hope for anything substantially better than what we've got is rapidly leeching away.

Preorder Ben's pamphlet "Four Essays on Palestine" from Everyday Analysis:

https://everyday-analysis.sellfy.store/p/four-essays-on-palestine-by-ben-burgis-print-and-digital-edition/

Read Jason's essay on TiR's Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/crisis-papers-1-109535204

Follow Jason on Twitter: @J_Myles_TiR

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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2h 37min
August 02, 2024 Season 6 Episode 27: Understanding Capitalism w/Prof. Richard Wolff (+ RM Brown on the Election)
Prof. Richard Wolff came back on the show after a too-long absence to talk about his (as you'll see, apparently quite dangerous) new book "Understanding Capitalism." We talked with him him in the first hour and then our friend RM Brown came by to chat about the election in the second hour and into the postgame for patrons.

Follow Prof. Wolff on Twitter: @profwolff

Follow RM Brown on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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2h 14min
July 26, 2024 Season 6 Episode 26: It's Good that Biden Dropped Out. But He Should Be on Trial at the Hague.
In the first half hour of the show, the GTAA crew takes a look at the insanity at the RNC and Biden dropping out. Then director Kavitha Chekuru chats with Ben about her very good but extremely disturbing Al Jazeera documentary, "The Night Won't End: Biden's War on Gaza."

Watch the documentary here:

The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza

Follow Kavitha on Twitter: @KaviChek

Follow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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1h 55min
July 23, 2024 Season 6 Episode 25: Fine. You Win. We'll Do an Election-News Episode.
[Note: This episode was recorded before the coconut dropped on Biden actually dropping out.]

We had something else planned but between the assassination attempt, the JD Vance pick, the RNC, and Biden continuing to do his best impression of an extra from Night of the Living Dead, it seems like the universe really wanted us to just talk about the election tonight. So fine. You win this one. Guest is the one and only Deep State Kuba.

Follow Kuba on Twitter: @DrKuba2

Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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1h 49min
July 12, 2024 Season 6 Episode 24: Karl Marx's Theory of History (ft. Matt McManus)
Matt McManus returns to hash out the arguments in G.A. Cohen's book "Karl Marx's Theory of History" with Ben Burgis. Before that, Ben and the crew take a look at Ben's post-debate interactions with YouTube personality Steven Bonnell ("Destiny"). No postgame on this one, but we make the main show count!

Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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2h 35min
July 05, 2024 Season 6 Episode 23: What the F*** Was That? (Ben's Debate w/Destiny)
Last week Ben Burgis had a debate on Israel/Palestine with YouTube personality Steven Bonnell ("Destiny").

It went...oddly.

In this episode we break it all down.

Watch the debate at MDD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdMRphk7ij4

Follow Destiny on Twitter: @TheOmniLiberal

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

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2h 18min
June 28, 2024 Season 6 Episode 22: The Vanquished (ft. Anders Lee & Freddy G.)
Anders Lee and Freddy G. come on to chat with Ben Burgis about their new-ish podcast The Vanquished, where they profile losing presidential candidates over the decades. We'll dig into a handful of their favorites. Before that, Ben and the crew talk about his upcoming Israel/Palestine debate with YouTube personality Steven Bonnell ("Destiny"). Last but definitely not least, returning champ Ryan Zickgraf hangs out in the postgame for patrons. This is a fun one.

Listen to The Vanquished:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vanquished/id1735216373?i=1000651259339

Follow Anders on Twitter: @andersleehere

Follow Freddy on Twitter: @OrangeFreddyG

Follow Ryan on Twitter: @ryan_zickgraf

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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2h 15min
June 15, 2024 Season 6 Episode 21: Jeet Heer on Marty Peretz
The Nation's Jeet Heer joins Ben Burgis to discuss his article "Friends and Enemies: Marty Peretz and the Travails of American Liberalism." You might not know who Marty Peretz is but you've unfortunately seen his handiwork--Anthony Blinken, for example, is a Peretz protege. So is Jim Cramer. The man's got a lot to answer for, and Jeet gets into all of it.

Before that, the great RM Brown joins us for a freewheeling discussion of Dave Rubin, Jimmy Dore and much more. And in the postgame for patrons, Ben and the crew watch a very different Jeet Heer interview--Jeet's appearance on the Jesse Lee Peterson show. Don't miss that.

Follow Jeet on Twitter: @HeerJeet

Follow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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2h 36min
June 08, 2024 Season 6 Episode 20: Exiting the Vampire's Castle (ft. Daniel Tutt)
Daniel Tutt joins us again for a deep dive on Mark Fisher's classic essay "Exiting the Vampire's Castle" (heavily featured in Ben Burgis's book "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left"). Before that, Ben and the crew talk about NYU's bizarre reeducation program for student Palestine protesters. In the postgame for patrons, Matthew Whalan joins us to watch the last part of Cenk Uygur and Dave Smith's debate on Israel, Palestine & Iran with Batya Ungar-Sargon & Dennis Prager.

Read Fisher's essay:

https://opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/

Buy Ben's book:

https://redemmas.org/titles/34877-canceling-comedians-while-the-world-burns-a-critique-of-the-contemporary-left/

Buy Daniel's book:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740015/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-by-daniel-tutt/

Buy tickets to the livestream of the event in DC:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clr-james-and-the-struggle-for-socialism-in-america-livestream-tickets-920347773967

Follow Daniel on Twitter: @DanielTutt

Follow Matthew on Twitter: @VernonWhalan

Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

patreon.com/benburgis

Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

benburgis.substack.com

Visit benburgis.com
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2h 10min

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How many episodes does Give Them An Argument have?

The podcast currently has 274 episodes available.

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