Give Them An Argument

A lot has happened since the last episode of GTAA. Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America (thus ending our long national nightmare of having to accept an "of Mexico" body of water touching our sacred American soil), and Matt McManus came to L.A., where he and Ben Burgis did a live event to discuss Matt's book on liberal socialism. Ben's talks about the former (and other possibly more consequential aspects of Trump 2.0) in the Opening Argument, and then we play the full video of the latter. In the postgame for GTAA patrons, Ben and the crew chat with Mark Gurarie, the front man for Teen Driver, a post-punk band with songs like "Rest in Pissinger" and "Debate Me."

Check out their Bandcamp:

https://teendriver.bandcamp.com/album/no-ac

Buy Matt's book:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Theory-of-Liberal-Socialism/McManus/p/book/9781032647234

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In our last episode before this year's season break, Matt McManus & Robert Myles join Ben Burgis to break down Jordan Peterson's new book "We Who Wrestle with God." (He doesn't seem to have read any more Marx since 2019.) Before that, Ben and the crew take a look at Ben's article at MSNBC about Obama and the various responses it's provoked--a disdainful sniff from uber-popular historian Heather Cox Richardson on her Substack, what can only be described as a right-populist haiku from Steve Bannon, and a whole lot of unhinged reactions from grassroots libs. In the postgame we're joined by Deep State Kuba for a last bit of non-"We Who Wrestle..." JBP-bashing before we hit the road.

Read Ben's MSNBC article:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/barack-obama-democracy-forum-speech-trump-era-rcna183127

...and his Substack on Peterson's misunderstandings of Marx:

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/did-jordan-peterson-forget-what-marx

Order Matt's book:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Theory-of-Liberal-Socialism/McManus/p/book/9781032647234

Order Robert's book:

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Class-Conflict-James-Crossley/dp/1803410825

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[Many apologies about the delay! Lots going on lately. The other delayed ep will be posted by the end of the week.]

Jihadists are taking over Aleppo, US missiles are striking deep into Russia, and the atrocities in Gaza have reached the point that a *former Israeli Defense Minister* (and Likud Party member!) recently accused Netanyahu of "ethnic cleansing." This seems like a good time to bring in the foreign policy duo of Mean Djene Bajalan and Deep State Kuba to help Ben Burgis make sense of what the hell is going on around the world.

Order Ben's pamphlet "Four Essays on Palestine":

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

Read Ben and Djene's co-written article "Calling a Football Riot a Pogrom Insults Historical Memory":

https://jacobin.com/2024/11/pogrom-football-amsterdam-israel-antisemitism

Read Ben and Kuba's co-written article "Trump Wants to Purge the Deep State So He Can Weaponize It":

https://jacobin.com/2024/09/donald-trump-deep-state-authoritarianism

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Ben Burgis welcomes back major friend of the pod Matt to talk his new book:
"The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism," in which he "presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretching from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine through John Stuart Mill to Irving Howe, John Rawls, and Charles Mills."

Buy the book here:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Theory-of-Liberal-Socialism/McManus/p/book/9781032647234?srsltid=AfmBOopS7HP7ywGhn4LB27-wBYa_vGV9tmNts-t-GIdllMV_bajrCsQr

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Juan David Rojas joins Ben Burgis at the top of the show to discuss the reasons Claudia Sheinbaum romped to victory as an economic populist in Mexico's presidential election a few months before Kamala Harris crashed and burned. (Some liberals would prefer to blame sexism for the latter, but the contrast makes that...a bit implausible!) After that Vanessa, Wills joins us to talk about her fascinating new book "Marx's Ethical Vision." 

David Lay Williams comes on to talk about his excellent new book, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx."

Order the book:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691171975/the-greatest-of-all-plagues

Read Ben's review of the book in Compact:

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ancient-curse-of-inequality/

Order Ben's pamphlet "Four Essays on Palestine":

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

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Deep State Kuba joins Ben Burgis for a deep dive into the ongoing atrocities in Palestine--both debunking Zionist apologetics and pushing back against the dumb and counterproductive things leftists sometimes say in the name of Palestine solidarity and crafting a better and more effective message.

Order 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/

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First-time guest Tony Annett and Matt "I Brought My Own Mic" McManus return for an in-depth look at thinkers like Alasdair McIntyre and Paul Tillich, the relationship between left-wing economic ideas and Catholic social teaching, and more. (Turns out that, while an adamant atheist when "in the streets" arguing about philosophy, Ben is "in the sheets" of political practice extremely friendly to this kind of thing.)

The launch event for Ben's pamphlet "Four Essays on Palestine" is going to be in October 22nd at 7:30 PM in Los Angeles (at Lawless Brewing Co. in North Hollywood) w/a panel in the beer garden with Ben, Jason Myles and Ana Kasparian. Tickets come with a copy of the book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/four-essays-on-palestine-launch-wben-burgis-ana-kasparian-jason-myles-tickets-1039381567247

Or order the pamphlet from Everyday Analysis:

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

Read Tony's essay "The Theology of Social Democracy" at Commonweal:

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/theology-social-democracy

Read Matt's essay "The Left Should Take Alasdair MacIntyre Seriously" at Jacobin:

https://jacobin.com/2024/09/alasdair-macintyre-marxism-morality-liberalism

Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

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On the one-year anniversary of Hamas's atrocities on October 7th, which have been used as a pretext for unfathomably worse atrocities for the last year, Ben Burgis does an on-air version of his lecture "Debunking the Many Bad Arguments Made By Israel’s Apologists in the West" which he gave as a teach-in at the encampment at Princeton last April, and before that as a presentation to Metro Detroit DSA & Wayne State University YDSA. (Sadly, we couldn't line up anyone to record either of those!) Before that, Ben and the crew talk about the VP debate, the successful strike that shut down ports across the East Coast last week (and the shameful failure of many liberals to support it), and a petition to posthumously exonerate Ethel Rosenberg. In the postgame for patrons, they watch Ta-Nehesi Coates being grilled on CBS.

The launch event for Ben's pamphlet "Four Essays on Palestine" is going to be in October 22nd at 7:30 PM in Los Angeles (at Lawless Brewing Co. in North Hollywood) w/a panel in the beer garden with Ben, Jason Myles and Ana Kasparian. Tickets come with a copy of the book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/four-essays-on-palestine-launch-wben-burgis-ana-kasparian-jason-myles-tickets-1039381567247

Or order the pamphlet from Everyday Analysis:

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

Sing the Ethel Rosenberg petition:

https://www.rfc.org/exonerate-ethel?utm_id=120213379584320359

Read the MSNBC article about the strike on the docks:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/dock-workers-strike-sent-powerful-message-bosses-workers-rcna173849

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