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PART 1! of our monster breakdown of the latest release from Bob Dylan: ‘The Complete Budokan, 1978’. Jack Frayne-Reid joins us from the Reel Politik podcast to… decline to discuss the afterlife of populism and the ordeal of Corbynism, but instead to analyse some great music. PART 2 is exclusive to our Patreon subscribers. The Patreon-exclusive PART 2 of our track-by-track breakdown of Bob Dylan's ‘The Complete Budokan, 1978' includes: 'Is Your Love in Vain' vs. 'Love Minus Zero', Bowie's influence on 'You're a Big Girl Now', 'Blowin' in the Wind' in Syria, Dylan in Israel, Clapton's politics, and Jack gets his guitar out again! Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show, THE EXCLUSIVE PART 2 CONTINUATION, PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS178 WHEN LIBERALS GOT TIRED | Samuel Moyn https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps178-when-got-91111201 Dissecting the Gaza crisis, Zionism, liberal exhaustion and their backstory in the Cold War's reactionary liberal intellectuals, with the great historian Sam Moyn. Prof Moyn's new book is ⁠Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times⁠. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released as TPS RACE RECKONING tapes 3 https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps-race-tapes-3-84900528 Adolph Reed jr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachael Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is ⁠No Politics But Class Politics⁠. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS176 SPEAKERSHIPS https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps176-90459866 David and James jump on to discuss MAGA's unprecedented defenestration of the House of Representatives, Kamala's role in the power struggle within the Democrats, the Tory Party's extremely online conference AND the latest hit job on Roger Waters. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full audio and video versions of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

full video: TPS175 TURNED OUT TO BE A SHORT FOREVER | Vincent Bevins https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps175-turned-to-89831544 How come the mass protest movements of the 2010s almost always got the reverse of what they demanded? The Jakarta Method author Vincent Bevins is back with a new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, and joins TPS to discuss the Arab Spring, Ukraine's 2014 Euromaidan uprising, and Brazil's anti-corruption protests. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusive shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from The COVID Critical tapes 6 - LEARNING FROM THE TRUCKERS | Gord Magill https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-critical-6-87527338 Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists andactivists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. ⁠TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults,exclusively for our Patreon subscribers⁠. Trucker Gord Magill returns to TPS to reflect on the most novel form of resistance thrown out by the COVID-19 pandemic: the Canada Truckers convoy against vaccine mandates. James and Gord discuss Justin Trudeau's invocation of emergency powers against the truckers, the failure of the left and the unions to respond adequately, and the alternative to 'from above' legalistic approaches to COVID overreach that have come to dominate the COVID critical position in recent months.

from TPS169 PURIFYING THE DIALECT OF THE TRIBE | Sohrab Ahmari https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps169-purifying-87291611 Author of Tyranny, Inc. and founding editor of Compact Magazine Sohrab Ahmari joins TPS to discuss his critique of American capitalism from the right, giving Joe Biden his due, the right-wing case for trade unions and equality of outcomes, and his mission to get conservatives to be less cringe. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS166 THE TWO EXES | Nancy Fraser https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps166-two-exes-86450607 The passage from expropriation to exploitation - the seizing of value by force, to its being drawn from nominally freely offered paid labour - is, for Marx, the passage to capitalism. Yet the first of the "exes" never quite goes away. Legendary socialist feminist and Marxist theorist Nancy Fraser joins TPS to discuss how this core insight can offer an overdue reassessment of the left's current canards on the family, race, the environment, and 'the political'. This is a big one! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS163 THE UNSPIRITUAL CASE FOR MARIANNE WILLIAMSON | Harvey J. Kaye https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps163-case-for-85774372 Legendary historian Harvey J. Kaye returns to TPS to make the case for a Marianne Williamson Presidency: the second in our 'cases for' 2024 Presidential candidates series. David asks Harvey about his work as Williamson's unofficial adviser, her past as a spirituality and self help author and speaker, how her relationship to America's radical history differs from that of Bernie Sanders, how 'Medicare for All' fell off the map of progressive politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from The COVID Critical tapes 5 - WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TIME? | Jay Bhattacharya https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-critical-5-85719204 Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with metwdical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers. Stanford Professor of Medicine and Great Barrington Declaration co-author Jay Bhattacharya joins TPS for a wide-ranging discussion of the lockdown debate, the mistakes in our vaccine policy, the controversy of Long COVID, the false lessons being drawn from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to avoid falling prey to the same top-down approaches in the next one. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS RACE RECKONING tapes 2 | Kenan Malik https://www.patreon.com/posts/84898713 Kenan Malik is a writer and commentator on race, a columnist for the Observer newspaper, and most recently author of Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics. In the second of our 'Race Reckoning' interviews, Kenan discusses the recent history of antiracism and identity politics, the logic antiracists risk having in common with the racists they abhor, and the political significance of 'left antisemitism'. TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS161 THE DEEP CASE FOR RFK JR | Aaron Good https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps161-deep-case-85168303 The first of our 'cases for' the US presidential candidates seeking to replace Joe Biden in 2024! Aaron Good, 'deep politics' podcaster and author of American Exception: Hegemony and the Tripartite State, answers questions on the importance of the assassinations of RFK jnr's father and uncle to the subsequent course of US politics, why he thinks RFK jnr is a bigger opportunity for the left than Bernie was, and RFK's controversial positions on vaccination and Israel. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS RACE RECKONING tapes 3 | Walter Benn Michaels & Adolph Reed jnr. https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps-race-tapes-3-84900528 Adolph Reed jnr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachael Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is No Politics But Class Politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS RACE RECKONING tapes 3 | Walter Benn Michaels & Adolph Reed jnr. https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps-race-tapes-3-84900528 Adolph Reed jnr and Walter Benn Michaels have waded through every accusation under the sun to commit to a class-first analysis of race and racism. They join TPS 'Race Reckoning' to discuss everything from why anti-discrimination campaigns are right wing, the legacy of Charles Murray and scientific racism, Adolph's work on the Bernie Sanders campaigns, and the failure of BLM, through to the significance of Rachel Dolezal and 'transracialism'. Their new book is No Politics But Class Politics. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS160 ROGUE'S GALLERY | Thomas Fazi https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps160-rogues-84920643 Economist and 'lockdown sceptic' Thomas Fazi returns to the show to tackle inflation, the departure of Boris Johnson, ex-chancellor George Osborne's defence of austerity at the UK's COVID inquiry, RFK jnr's bringing Ukraine and COVID scepticism into mainstream US politics, and the reassessment of Silvio Berlusconi after his death last week. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from TPS159 DYLAN'S SHADOW KINGDOM (HITTING THE HARDER STUFF) https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps159-dylans-84605173 Our engagement with the late work of Bob Dylan continues with a track-by-track analysis of Shadow Kingdom, the newly-released soundtrack album to the pandemic-era film of the same name, in which Dylan reimagines thirteen of his early songs. To help us is Allison Rapp, assistant editor of Ultimate Classic Rock magazine and among the zoomers offering a new interpretation of the great boomer artists. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

from 🔐TPS156 NATIONAL CONSERVATISMS | Alexander McKay https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod Wrong-footed by 'the blob' of the Civil Service and the UK's capitalist institutions, the UK Right watches enviously as Ron DeSantis launches his presidential bid using the dysfunctional 'Twitter Spaces'! This is the first part of an outstanding Marxist-Leninist interpretation of the current condition of the transatlantic left and right, with Alexander McKay, of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-critical-2-82925426. Originally released to the public as a series of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: A view from the corporate offices is provided by Jennifer Sey, Brand President and prospective CEO of Levi's, until her opposition to school closures during COVID cost her her job. Jennifer discusses how Levi's 'woke capitalism' blended seamlessly with its siding with maximalist COVID measures, how the US upper class sees education, and the generational dynamic in the corporate world's attitude to social justice today. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

From TPS154 EVENING'S EMPIRE | Matt Kennard https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps154-evenings-82788112 Matt Kennard of Declassified - the last bastion of critical foreign policy reporting in Britain - joins us to discuss Lula's UK visit, the fate of Julian Assange, the capture and decline of the Guardian, the privatisation of Ukraine, and his new book with Claire Provost: '⁠Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy⁠'.

From TPS153 THE LEFT TO COME | Doug Lain: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps153-left-to-82668487 Founder and editor of Sublation Media and ex-Zer0 Books editor Doug Lain joins for a monster discussion of the recent history of Left media, its failures on COVID and state collusion in social media companies, the weird turn of the Democratic Party in Biden's challengers RFK jnr. and Marianne Williamson, and looking back on Angela Nagle's 'Kill All Normies'.

from TPS154 EVENING'S EMPIRE | Matt Kennard https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps154-evenings-82788112 Matt Kennard of Declassified - the last bastion of critical foreign policy reporting in Britain - joins us to discuss Lula's UK visit, the fate of Julian Assange, the capture and decline of the Guardian, the privatisation of Ukraine, and his new book with Claire Provost: '⁠Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy⁠'. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

From TPS153 THE LEFT TO COME | Doug Lain: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps153-left-to-82668487 Founder and editor of Sublation Media and ex-Zer0 Books editor Doug Lain joins for a monster discussion of the recent history of Left media, its failures on COVID and state collusion in social media companies, the weird turn of the Democratic Party in Biden's challengers RFK jnr. and Marianne Williamson, and looking back on Kill All Normies.

From TPS152 INSUFFICENT BREXIT | Phil Cunliffe, Peter Ramsay: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps152-brexit-82549198 Brexit was necessary but insufficient, as the UK remains mired in the anti-democratic pathologies of 'member statehood'. Two of the authors of Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit - Bungacast and UCL's Phil Cunliffe and LSE's Peter Ramsay - join us to discuss their novel thesis on the history of the EU, how Leavers and Remainers alike misunderstood the meaning of Brexit, and why only leaving NATO, unifying Ireland, seceding from Britain's remaining colonial territories, and abolishing the House of Lords can finish the job!

From TPS142 LABOUR EUROSCEPTICISM | Richard Johnson: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps142-labour-79678914 "From the 1940s until the late 1980s, the majority view within the Labour Party was against joining (and, then, in favour of leaving) the European Economic Communities", later known as the European Union. Yet by the 2016 Brexit referendum, among Labour members, supporters and most MPs, Euroscepticism had become a byword for imperial nostalgia and racism. We spoke to Richard Johnson, Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations School at Queen Mary, University of London to find out how this change happened, the history of resistances to Europe on the left, and the consequences for Keir Starmer today. PLUS we hear the left-wing case for the UK monarchy!

Full video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps148-how-to-81466385 After the Nashville and Louisville massacres, James and David outline their three rules for interpreting mass shootings, at a moment when every identity group - from chads to transgender men - can get in on the action! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow