No Easy Answers

By Jules Taylor

No Easy Answers is a Marxist podcast about politics, philosophy, and the human condition. Hosted by Jules Taylor... more

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August 30, 2021Episode 39 - Afghanistan Meant Nothing with Laura Jedeed
In this episode, Jules speaks with Laura Jedeed about her latest article, "Afghanistan Meant Nothing".
You can unlock the video for this episode at our Patreon.
Additional Links Below…
Laura Jedeed website, twitter, medium, patreon

Afghanistan Meant Nothing by Laura Jedeed

Laura Jedeed WAPO Article

Laura Jedeed Thesis

Vanessa Guillen, soldier at Fort Hood

The Nayirah Testimony

Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder

Outro Music: Derek Clegg, "Hanging By A String"
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Music provided by: Self-Taut
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1h 22min
August 19, 2021Episode 38 - "Thought, Disability, and Refusal" with Will Conway from Acid Horizon
We're continuing our crossover series with the guys over at the Acid Horizon Podcast. Will Conway (@emofoucault) joins us to discuss his latest article, "Thought, Disability, and Refusal".
Additional links below…
Will's Webpage, Twitter

Will Conway, for Revolting Bodies "Thought, Disability, and Refusal"

Acid Horizon Podcast
Philosophers we spoke about…
Michel Foucault Wiki, Goodreads

Gilles Deleuze Wiki, Goodreads

Friedrich Nietzsche Wiki, Goodreads
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2h 7min
August 03, 2021 Episode 37 - Craig from Acid Horizon and Daniel Barker
In this episode, Jules speaks with Craig from Acid Horizon and Daniel Barker, who listeners may remember from episode 19. This conversation about Nietzsche starts by making fun of Schopenhauer, then discussing Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart, and finally Craig offers everyone a t-shirt.

Additional links below…
Craig's Twitter, Crit Drip
Daniel Twitter
Acid Horizon Podcast
Steve Albini Credits, Wiki

Books…
Robert Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism"
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On the Geneology of Morals"
Outro Music: 8-Bit Universe, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

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1h 30min
August 01, 2021Episode 36 - Craig from Acid Horizon
Jules speaks with Craig from Acid Horizon and the Deleuze & Guattari Quarantine Collective about music and theory.
Acid Horizon Twitter, Podcast, Patreon
Additional links below…
Deleuze and Guattari Quarantine Collective Podcast

Anti-Oedipus

Gilles Deleuze Wiki
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Outro Music: Jahzzar, "Trip"
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1h 24min
July 23, 2021Episode 35 - Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era with Nate Holdren
In this special episode, Jules speaks with Professor Nate Holdren about his book Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. Professor Holdren's book recently received an honorable mention for the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, and Nate Holdren is a Marxist Historian and US Legal Historian at Drake University.
*This conversation was recorded during a thunderstorm, so we've edited a few storm clouds into our conversation to depict when our conversation was cut off due to losing power. Thank you again to Professor Holdren for rolling with tech issues during the course of this episode.
Additional Links Below…
Nate Holdren's Twitter, Faculty Page

Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era

Maximillian Alvarez for In These Times Magazine, "The Painful History of Injury in the Workplace"

Maximillian Alvarez for The Real News Network, "What Do Workers Really Lose When They're Injured on the Job?"

Outro Music 1: Utah Phillips, "Yuba City"

Outro Music 2: Steve Earle, "It's About Blood" (live radio performance)
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2h 39min
July 17, 2021Episode 34 - Pt. 6 Dangerous Minds, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right with Ronald Beiner
Jules speaks with Professor Ronald Beiner about his book Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right. Ronald Beiner is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Contemporary far-right and neofascist movements continue to be inspired by these philosophers, and intellectually conscious fascists still hold them in high regard. Do these philosophers have anything useful for the political left, and if so, what can we find in philosophers who outright reject egalitarianism?
Additional links and articles below…
Ronald Beiner Website, Twitter

Dangerous      Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right

Ronald Beiner's article      discussing Benjamin Teitelbaum's book War for Eternity

Domenico Losurdo - Nietzsche,      the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet

Outro Music: Jules Taylor,      "Long Way to Abilene"
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1h 48min
July 07, 2021Episode 33 - Pt. 5 Fascism, Anti-Communism, the CIA and French Theory with Gabriel Rockhill
In the final episode in our series about Fascism, Jules speaks with Professor Gabriel Rockhill about a series of articles he wrote called "Fascism - A Counter-History". Professor Rockhill speaks to the conjunctural, structural, and systemic aspects of Fascism from a materialist perspective, and how this method breaks with liberal notions of fascism simply being an idiosyncratic occurrence that happened once in history. Along the way, questions of syncretism, operation paperclip, and Michel Foucault come up, including how the CIA targeted certain theorists in order to drive an ideological wedge between communists and left anti-communists.
About Gabriel Rockhill
Gabriel Rockhill Wiki, Twitter, Website
Additional links and articles…
NEW ARTICLE released today, July 6th, 2021: "Fascist Plots in the US: Contemporary lessons from the 1934 "Business Plot" Liberation School (July 6, 2021).

“Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (February 1, 2021). This article was translated into Turkish.

Other articles can be found here: https://gabrielrockhill.com/op-eds/

We have more links and articles for this episode and your consideration at our Patreon
Gabriel Rockhill interview with Chris Hedges on RT
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1h 36min
June 17, 2021Episode 32 - Pt. 4 Carl Schmitt, States of Exception, and Political Theology with Matthew Lowery
Jules speaks with Matthew Lowery, one of the cohosts of the Acid Horizon Podcast, about the political works of Carl Schmitt. This conversation is part 4 in the arch of this show, and would naturally follow after our previous episodes discussing Heidegger, Fascism, and Traditionalism. Matthew explains to us who Carl Schmitt was, why one would wish to engage with his work, and makes clear that Carl Schmitt was a Nazi bastard but his ideas are still relevant to contemporary politics.
Links and additional articles…
Interview with Ric Ortiz on Working People
Matthew Lowery on Twitter

Acid Horizon on Twitter

Carl Schmitt on Wiki

Slavoj Zizek, "Against the Populist Temptation"

Carl Schmitt on Goodreads

"Agamben and Radical Politics" (edited) by Daniel McLoughlin - "Capitalism as Religion" is the specific essay in the collection Jules references when speaking about money not being backed up by gold

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe on Wiki
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1h 37min
May 30, 2021 Episode 31 - Pt. 3 Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties with Richard Polt
Jules speaks with Professor Richard Polt about the philosopher Martin Heidegger. Richard Polt is a Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, and he is the author of several books on philosophy, including his most recent book, called Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties. Heidegger is a controversial figure in that he joined the Nazi party in 1933, and so this left a shadow over his philosophical contributions. Evidence revealed in the last 20 years would suggest it is not so easy to let Heidegger off the hook.
Books!
· Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt
· The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy by Richard Polt
· Heidegger: An Introduction by Richard Polt
· Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger, translated by Richard Polt
· Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
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1h 28min
May 28, 2021 Episode 30 - Pt. 2 War for Eternity with Benjamin Teitelbaum
In this episode, Jules speaks with Benjamin Teitelbaum about his book War for Eternity. Professor Teitelbaum has conducted hours of in-person interviews with members of the far-right and Traditionalists who have positioned themselves in positions of geopolitical influence. Topics discussed include Aleksandr Dugin, Steve Bannon, Olavo de Carvalho, three agents of the far-right who have taken influence from more obscure thinkers of the far-right, specifically Julius Evola, and René Guénon.
Additional links below…
· War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Powerbrokers by Benjamin Teitelbaum
· Benjamin Teitelbaum on Twitter
· The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New Right by Robert Tobin
· Steve Bannon Cited Italian Thinker Who Inspired Fascists by Jason Horowitz in the New York Times
· The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism by Joe Becker in the New York Times
· Outro Music: "Bisonpolska", a Swedish Folk Song performed by Ben Teitelbaum on the Nyckelharpa
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1h 43min

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