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Crisis of legitimacy, you say?
🕑 Added 2024-07-01 13:39:53 +0000 UTCHey friends, can you feel the legitimacy crisis burning? With critical elections in the UK and France coming up (and a cognitively challenged US election campaign hovering in the background), there's lots to be abreast of. So we're very excited to bring you our July programme.
The Bunga boys unpick the UK general election that is sure to throw up a Labour government – but will there be a Tory extinction event? How will the two-party hegemony be scrambled?
Macron's gamble may blow back in his face – or is was his intention in the first place to domesticate the far right?
Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko tells us about his country's war, and its oligarch-led de-modernisation
A long-postponed episode will finally be out: it's Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz on the emotions of populism, and Israel's crisis
We read the late Dmitri Furman's analysis of the structure of post-Soviet Russia in the Reading Club
Regular contributor Catherine Liu explains how she survived Culture War 1.0 – and how the campus wars set the scene for the contemporary iteration.
And we respond to your questions and criticisms in Aufhebonus Bonus.
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ICYMI
Indian writer and activist Achin Vanaik told Alex how Modi did less well than expected, but why there is still no real challenge to Hindu nationalist ideology. Listen
In this month's Damage episode, Fred Stafford broke down for us who owns power infrastructure. Listen
Alex and Leigh discussed Korea's gender wars and lack of babies with the help of Hyeyoung Woo, and then the boys put these matters in a global context. Listen
Gregor Baszak told Philip about how NOBS-style derangement is playing out in Germany, politically and socially. Listen
We continued our deep dive on Mexico, its domestic tensions and international relations, with the help of Juan David Rojas. Listen
And we dealt with your questions and criticisms on Israel/Palestine, film, and more in Aufhebonus Bonus. Listen
Oh and we re-released our acclaimed obit of Silvio Berlusconi on the one-year anniversary of his death. Listen
Bunga Elsewhere
In Café americain, George wrote about class struggle and EP Thompson, and on why we love football, despite everything.
Alex was interviewed in leading Brazilian design magazine Casa e Jardim about Brazilianization and its cultural manifestations (in Portuguese).
And in Damage, George's article (with Matthew Thompson and Jonny Gordon Farleigh) on the rise of para-institutions was published online.
