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

You read the title! Next month, Gil is teaching a class on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason at the Goethe... more

In this episode, we discuss Eric Blanc’s new book about the strategies re-building U.S. labor today, as well as how... more

In this episode, we discuss the work of brilliant heterodox economist Karl Polanyi. We talk about his criticisms of neoclassical... more

In this episode, we discuss the work of the late, great Fredric Jameson. Basing ourselves on his Marxism and Form,... more

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Black Reconstruction, and The Black Jacobins. What do these three texts have in common?... more

Another week, another German philosopher. This time, Steven Klein joins us to discuss the ideas and legacy of one Jürgen... more