June all around the world
Added 2024-05-31 13:49:06 +0000 UTCHey pals, thanks for being with us through May. We're excited about all the global stuff we've got coming up in June:
Mexico is bucking the trend of left failure. Juan Rojas talks us through its past and future.
Is India finally tiring of Modi? We talk to the sharpest analyst of Hindu nationalism, Achin Vanaik.
Where are all the Korean babies? And why are its men and women at each others' throats? Hyeyoung Woo explains.
Writer Sam Kriss will tell us about why reactionary Saudi Arabia is one of the last emblems of modernism.
In the Reading Club, we learn about the structure of post-Soviet Russian politics through a reading of the late Dmitri Furman's work.
Why does public power matter? We discuss energy with Fred Stafford.
And: be they angry or nice, we deal with your questions and comments in Aufhebonus Bonus.
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ICYMI
The Bunga boys debated pro-Palestine protests – to much acclaim and disdain ;-)
In the Reading Club, we read Isaac Deutscher's monumental biography of Stalin
The renowned music critic Simon Reynolds told us about 'future music'
Roger Lancaster told us about populism, corruption, and class consciousness in Mexico
Two episodes on political film: Alex Garland's Civil War and Jonathan Glazer's Zone of Interest.
Bunga Elsewhere
Alex organised and hosted a roundtable on polycrisis for Spike Art Magazine. He was also a guest on Ashley Frawley's show talking about hypermodernity, and on Sublation Media discussing the new Bungacast.
In UnHerd, Phil argued that China is not the answer to Nato and that Labour won't fix Britain's police problem.
George was in Damage putting the history of serial killers in dialogue with the waning American Century.
