The Regrettable Century

By Chris, Jason, Kevin, BenSociety & Culture Philosophy

The Regrettable Century episodes

December 22, 2025 PATREON PREVIEW: Regrettable Geopolitics 12/20/2025
Well, here is a release that is back on our old schedule, but we won't be on this schedule for long. In fact, this is our last geopolitics episode of the year. We will resume in the New Year on a bi-weekly schedule.
Trump's Acts of Piracy, Genocide in Darfur, Officer Exodus from the IDF, Europe Hopes to Prolong Ukraine War, More Russian Gains and Ukrainian Losses...
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
17 min
December 19, 2025 Patreon Preview -- Boundless & Bottomless Returns: Dugin’s 4th Political Theory (Part IX)
The boys are back, well... some of the boys. Picking up after a year long hiatus, Jason and Varn are ready to get down to finishing off Dugin.

Dugin, Alexander (2012). The Fourth Political Theory. Translated by Sleboda, Mark; Millerman, Michael. Arktos Media.
--------------------------------------
Varn Vlog https://varnvlog.buzzsprout.com/
-------------------------------------
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
16 min
December 17, 2025 The Gang Resolves the Contradictions (Unlocked)
This is a Patreon episode we liked so much that we unlocked it for everyone to hear. We hope you enjoy it.

This week, Jason and Ben sat down to acknowledge and resolve all the contradictions that have manifested in our discussions on this podcast. Actually, we don't resolve anything, but we do acknowledge some things. Our listeners will know that we often disagree with the broader left, each other, and our earlier selves. While we don't manage to piece together a solid line for the podcast, we do manage to talk a lot about those contradictions.
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
1 hr 9 min
December 10, 2025 Patreon Preview: La démocratie dans l’Amérique de Trump (Matthew from Unbreakable Union) *re-upload*
*re-uploaded*
This week we sat down with Matthew from the Unbreakable Union podcast and talked about the changing state of the world, what it's been like to be on the left throughout the years, the situation in France, and why maybe our pessimism makes a little bit more sense than it might first seem.
https://unbreakableunion.buzzsprout.com/
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
21 min
December 03, 2025 Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History: With Stephan Hammel (Part II of II)
This week, Jason and Ben continued their conversation with Stephan Hammel of The Measures Taken Podcast about his new book Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History.

From the publisher:
"This book argues for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of historical materialism to the musicological project. It interrogates the history of encounters between Marxism and music studies — both within and without the Soviet sphere — before staging the missed encounter between classical musicology and Second International Marxism. It concludes with a framework for understanding style history in terms of changes in the forces and relations of musical production."
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2684-toward-a-materialist-conception-of-music-history
https://www.themeasurestaken.org/
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
54 min
November 28, 2025 PATREON PREVIEW -- Regrettable Geopolitics 11/27/2025
Trump Wants to Talk to Maduro, Israel is Still Murdering Children, Zelensky Has Lost Touch With Reality, Ukraine Is Losing and Being Forced Into an Unfavorable Peace Deal...
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
22 min
November 26, 2025 Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History: With Stephan Hammel (Part I of II)
This week, Jason and Ben got together with friend and comrade Stephan Hammel of The Measures Taken Podcast to talk about his new book Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History.

From the publisher:
"This book argues for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of historical materialism to the musicological project. It interrogates the history of encounters between Marxism and music studies — both within and without the Soviet sphere — before staging the missed encounter between classical musicology and Second International Marxism. It concludes with a framework for understanding style history in terms of changes in the forces and relations of musical production."
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2684-toward-a-materialist-conception-of-music-history
https://www.themeasurestaken.org/
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
1 hr 8 min
November 19, 2025 Patreon Preview: Regrettable Book Club -- Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour (Part II)
It's once again time for 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into chapters one and two, which means there is still time to become part of the group. If you would like to join in, go to the Discord!

Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
15 min
November 11, 2025 The Conclusion of the Glorious Seven Year Plan: Year Seven in Review
Another year of podcasting is in the books. Listen to our post-game wrap of the year's events, the podcast, and our lives.
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
1 hr 24 min
November 05, 2025 Patreon Preview -- Antagonizing and Provoking Russia: The US’ Long Plan to Kneecap Russia and Escalate the New Cold War
This week we did a close reading of a RAND corporation policy proposal paper called Overextending and Unbalancing Russia: Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options. It has been argued that this document is the root of America's disastrous foreign policy regarding Russia, which has plunged Ukraine and the Middle East into misery and death.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf
Send us a message (sorry we can't respond on here).
Support the show

Visit the Regrettable Century Merch Shop
16 min

About The Regrettable Century

From the publisher's feed

The old forms of the Left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a Dialectical Pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism.