That's right, folks! Next month, Gil is teaching a class on Spinoza's Ethics at Twelve Ten Gallery in Chicago through... more

In this episode, we talk about Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. In it, he argues that modern culture... more

In this episode, we discuss the centrality of ‘representation’ in politics and political theory, guided by Hanna Pitkin’s 1967 treatise... more

In this episode, we discuss “political marxism” as a paradigm shift in Marxist thinking about historical development, the transition from... more

In this episode, we discuss WLOP co-host William Paris’s recently published book Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the... more

In this episode, we discuss the 2007 text The Coming Insurrection, written by the pseudonymous collective The Invisible Committee. We... more

In this episode, the boys talk about C.B. Macpherson’s insightful text The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. Macpherson holds that... more

In this episode, we are joined by special guest Tommie Shelby to discuss the arguments presented in his most recent... more

This is a short promo for Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press,... more

In this episode, we tackle Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. In this book, Nietzsche diagnoses the cultural pathologies of... more