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Dead Pundits Society

Dead Pundits Society

Forging a new left agenda in the midst of our neoliberal hellscape -- Join us weekly for the best news and analysis from a left perspective.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Dead Pundits Society episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Dead Pundits Society for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Dead Pundits Society episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

The A-Team of Syria commentators is assembled and ready for duty. Joining me this week for a 3-part interview on the Syria conflict, its history, its context and our response to recent events are Rania Khalek and Ben Norton. Rania is an independent journalist and co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure Podcast. Ben is a staff writer for Alternet, a former columnist at Salon and an incredibly knowledgeable guy on Middle East Affairs. In Part 1, we cover the history of the so-called Arab Spring, the history of the Saudi-US relationship, and the nature of Sunni supremacism stemming from the far right, reactionary and downright fascist Salafist movement.
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Rune Møller Stahl joins us for the B-Side to address whether or not claims to neoliberalism's power have been overstated. Are we all neoliberal subjects now? Or can we say: neoliberalism, neoshmiberalism? Tune in to find out. ***Become a patron of DPS to hear this episode in full: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** ----------------------------- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deadpunditssociety YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg
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Dead Pundits Society - Destroying Opponents with Logic and Reason w/ Ben Burgis
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06/13/19 • 68 min

Ben Burgis joins us this week to teach you how to destroy your opponents with logic and reason — j/k. Instead, we’ll attempt a perhaps even more laughable aim, which is to convince you that the left needs to reclaim *actual* logic for itself rather than ceding this territory to rightwing pundits who haven’t the slightest clue what they’re talking about. Adam was initially skeptical but was converted after reading the book — maybe you can be converted, too. Tune it for more! -Learn more about the book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44903309-give-them-an-argument *** The B-Side to this episode will be launching for patrons on Friday. Support DPS Media and receive access to our entire back catalog of B-Sides: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** -Find our podcasts, videos, and articles here: http://www.deadpundits.com ——————————————- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deadpunditssociety YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg
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Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in beginning of May featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Ed Rooksby aired over a year ago and remains as relevant as ever given recent popularity of Medicare for All and the Green New Deal as structural reforms (or non-reformist reforms). Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits ------------------------------------ Ed Rooksby, Tutor in Politics and Social Sciences at Ruskin College in Oxford, joins us to talk about structural reform and socialist strategy. We kick things off with a discussion of SYRIZA and socialist strategy along with a healthy dose of Neo-Marxian state theory. -How do we navigate the intractable debate between reform and revolution? -What is a non-reformist reform? -How do socialists use the state to support worker's self-activity outside the state? -TUNE IN TO FIND OUT! Check out Ed’s essay, “‘Structural Reform’ & the Problem of Socialist Strategy Today”: https://edrooksby.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/structural-reform-the-problem-of-socialist-strategy-today/ ***To access the B-Side of this interview and to support the new left agenda, head over to www.patreon.com/deadpundits and subscribe today*** ——————————————- iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/deadpundits
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Dead Pundits Society - [Classic DPS] The Anti-LARPers Manifesto w/ Freddie DeBoer
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04/16/19 • 50 min

Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in the end of April 2019 featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Freddie DeBoer aired two years ago and serves as a valuable point of reflection for how far the left has come since and how far it still needs to go. Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: http://patreon.com/deadpundits ----------------- On this week’s episode, Freddie deBoer and I analyze the hyper-woke, virtue-signaling sect of the left, which has claimed an insignificant segment of cyberspace as its sovereign territory in absence of any real power in society. We also share our thoughts about campus activism, the “No Platform” technique and left censorship. Resist the allure of LARP culture and learn how to win a real socialist platform. Tune in to find out how. Freddie’s article, “Why We Should Fear University Inc” can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/why-we-should-fear-university-inc.html?_r=0 ---------------------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg
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*** This track is a teaser of this week's B-Side, which is available to patrons of the Dead Pundits Society. To listen to the entire episode, join at www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** In this juggernaut of a B-Side, Adam and Aimee begin by briefly breaking down the significance of the midterm election results. Next, they begin a wide-ranging discussion on the meaning of so-called "normie" socialism -- a term that has largely been crafted by opponents of this strategy. They break down two recent blog pieces that are representative of this anti-normie socialism and set the record straight about the meaning of democratic socialism and the role of culture and identity in our project. Adam loses his temper on a few occasions, Alex Jones-style (but no gay frogs were harmed in the making of this episode). The blog posts in question can be found here: -Peter Frase, "Keep Socialism Weird," http://www.peterfrase.com/2018/10/keep-socialism-weird -"Breaking the Norm," http://www.peterfrase.com/2018/11/breaking-the-norm/ ----------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl_Xg
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Joining us this week to discuss the process around NYC DSA’s endorsement of Cynthia Nixon for the Democratic Party primary race in New York state are two members in NYC-DSA leadership, Susan Kang and Michael Cavadias. We discuss the various meanings of endorsement as well as the debates that emerged around these various and competing visions. Additionally, we discuss the role of accountability and the problematic relationship of the Democratic Party and socialist candidates. Whether you were in favor of this endorsement or not — and even whether you’re in favor of a socialist electoral strategy or not — there are many insights in this interview that will be beneficial for developing ou arguments. Articles: -"Building Power: A Rebuttal to the Case Against Nixon/Williams," by Susan Kang, Michael Cavadias, Danya Lagos, Cale Brooks, et al. -"To Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s critics: This is no time for sloganeering," by Jamie Stern-Weiner, https://mondoweiss.net/2018/07/alexandria-cortezs-sloganeering/ Image credit: @volperchlorate ***The B-Side to this week's episode will be available for patrons in several days. Join the Dead Pundits Society to catch the second subscriber-only episode each week and to support the new left agenda: www.patreon.com/deadpundits*** ----------------------- Twitter: @deadpundits Soundcloud: @deadpundits Facebook: facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 Patreon: www.patreon.com/deadpundits
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Dead Pundits Society - Mint Juleps and the Slaveholders' International w/ Matt Karp
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04/03/17 • 79 min

"Well, I do declayah!" -- this week we're joined by Matt Karp, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and frequent contributor to Jacobin Magazine, to talk about his new book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholder and the legacy of slavery, race and class. We also talk about Matt's piece in The Nation on the legacy of Frederick Douglass and what kind of lessons we might learn from that era. So kill your slavemaster, grab a mint julep, take a seat on the porch, and tune in. Matt's articles in The Nation, "The Enduring Struggle": https://www.thenation.com/article/the-enduring-struggle Matt Karp, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Empire: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737259' DONATE to us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Deadpundits
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Adam Hilton is back on DPS to talk about his book on the Democratic Party. Also, we talk a lot about... you guessed it, the Democratic Party. *** Become a patron of DPS today: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits *** Find his book here: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16211.html
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Dead Pundits Society - [Classic DPS] The New Communists w/ Adaner Usmani
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04/30/19 • 72 min

Season 2 of DPS has officially wrapped. Season 3 will launch in beginning of May featuring a new website, weekly YouTube videos along with articles and blog posts. In the meantime, patrons will be getting a weekly B-Side and the free feed will revisit classic episodes of DPS. This episode featuring Adaner Usmani aired a year and a half ago and remains as relevant as ever. Be sure to support DPS Media as we enter our third season: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits -------------------------- Joining me this week is Adaner Usmani. We discuss his latest essay in Jacobin (co-authored with Connor Kilpatrick) titled "The New Communists." They argue that it's time to leave the iconography and inward-facing legacy of 1917 behind and forge a socialism that addresses people's lived concerns in 2018. SOCIALISM FOR REGULAR-ASS PEOPLE Check out Adaner's writings here: -"The New Communists," http://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/12/the-new-communists -"Did Liberals Give us Mass Incarceration?" https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no3/did-liberals-give-us-mass-incarceration I also mentioned this important essay by Ralph Miliband during the interview: "Moving On," https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/1976/xx/moveon.htm ***To access the B-Side to this week's episode, which will be out in a few days, subscribe to the Dead Pundits Society at http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits*** -------------------------------- Twitter: http://twitter.com/deadpundits Facebook: http://facebook.com/deadpunditssociety iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1212081214 YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHahv2fM9eH2K4TzmsWl\_Xg
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Dead Pundits Society currently has 252 episodes available.

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The episode title 'Patron Q&A - What If Warren Wins? Knocking the Hustle & More [B-Side]' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Dead Pundits Society is 59 minutes.

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