An audiobook taster of James's new book So You've Been Ideologically Discredited PLUS an invitation for all our listeners, to the book launch at the Stapleton Tavern, Finsbury Park, Monday April 15th/7pm.

The preeminent researcher of the American 'deep state' and its hand in the great domestic crimes - from JFK to 9/11 - returns with the story of the other side of his career, as a Berkley poet and translator, and friend and collaborator of the major Polish poet, Czesław Miłosz. Miłosz was in the anti-Nazi resistance in Poland during the Second World…

Todd Michael Schultz is a musician and author, and the partner of Bret Easton Ellis, one of the world's most famous novelists and screenwriters. In an emotional and candid discussion, Todd lays out his vision of creativtiy, the dangers of navigating the LA elite, and what it's like to love a genius. Safe to say this is the most unique epsiode we've…

Newsweek editor and Daily Mail foreign correspondent David Gardner is author of 9/11: The Conpiracy Theories and COVID-19: The Conspiracy Theories. 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.c…

Exclusive to subscribers, the SECOND HALF of James's debate with Doug Lain on the contempt with which some on the left have shown towards pro-Palestinian activism. Click through to Sublation Media's YouTube channel for the first part of James's defence of the pro-Gaza protest movement.

For Patreon subscribers. Was the October 7th Hamas attack 'blowback' or is there more to the story? Ex-International Relations Prof turned deep state researcher Piers Robinson joins us for a history of 'propoganda of deed' and the deep structural events of the 21st century: 9/11, Syria, COVID-19, and how they can help us understand the present cris…

Ex-Syriza man and SOAS prof Costas Lapavitsas joins us to raise hell about the EU, Bidenomics, the economic effects of COVID lockdowns, new multipolar uprisings, and who screwed up worse: the Greek or the UK left? PLUS his new book with EReNSEP Writing Collective⁠, The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony. Help us develop The Popular…

Joshua Dávila of The Blockchain Socialist Podcast talks to David about Blockchain Radicals: HOW CAPITALISM RUINED CRYPTO AND HOW TO FIX IT (Repeater). We talk about how the left has ceded the future of technology and lessons they can learn from the past. This interview is deeply optimistic and dispels many of the myths and hangups the left has abou…

Counter-Populism is the political project of our moment: measures introduced as Counter-Terrorism have been turned against dissenting members of domestic populations on the left and right. Journalist Matt Taibbi takes us on a barnstormer journey from the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy against Trump and the anti-antisemitism campaign against Corbyn, the ri…

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…

Joe Guinan returns! From Cleveland to Preston, Joe is one of the most rigorous theorists and practitioners of 21st century socialism as ‘community wealth building’, and the pro-Brexit wonk who shaped Corbynism’s best policies. Our Thanksgiving Special rattles through the #UKFiles revelations on the relation between the Centre for Countering Digital…

New kinds of protest and direct action against weapons manufacturers and the Democratic Party, Israel propaganda fails, and the biggest propaganda fail of all… TikTok Zoomers getting into Osama bin Laden. All on the docket with investigative journalists Olly Haynes (Novara Media, Guardian, Dissent), and Matt Kennard (Declassified UK). Additional in…

Following TPS179’s account of how Gaza is changing the left,Rhyd Wildermuth returns for an analysis of its developing effect on the right: from Candace Owens’s breaking ranks against Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson sharing his browsing history with his son, Vivek Ramaswarmy’s Republican debate remarks, the Jordan-Petersonification of anti-antise…

Following Claire Fox's appearance on The Popular Show last year, James was invited to 'The Battle of Ideas', the Spiked-connected event for political and cultural debate promising 'free speech allowed'. The event has an aura of notoriety on the left, and back in 2010, Jenny Turner described something of its oddness and agenda in the pages of the Lo…

If COVID-19 carried forms of propogandisation and securitisation developed for foreign policy into the domestic sphere, the Ukraine war showed us what they look like when brought back to war. To continue joining the dots into a new crisis, University of Leicester's Tara McCormack returns to discuss Israel's plans for Gaza, protest and free speech i…

Egyptian activist and writer Nihal El Aasar joins us to discuss Gaza's neighbour Egypt's place in Israel's plans, the history of Israeli-Egyptian relations, and how Egyptian and other Arab elites are reacting to popular and activist feeling towards Palestine in the region. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show…

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 m…

SOAS's Professor Gould joins us to discuss the Gaza crisis, the recent acceleration of the clampdown on free speech and protest in the West, the materialist approach to antisemitism, and her own brush with cancellation for her criticisms of Israel. Help us develop The Popular Show and get the full video version of this show PLUS many extra exclusiv…

Previously exclusive to Patreon subscribers. 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 T…

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…

For Patreon subscribers. 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 an…

With the UK left cut out of the Labour Party more than any time in its history, a coalition of left organisations is calling for a new Party of the left to contest the 2024 General Election. Jackson Caines of 'Transform Politics' joins TPS to answer why the left can't just 'stay and fight' and push Keir Starmer to the left, what's wrong with the Gr…

The revival of a mass, discontented and angry feminism with the Women's March and #MeToo seemed to betoken a break from ameliorating liberalism. Seven years on, we must conclude that it has... although not in the way that 'socialist feminists' hoped. Jilly Boyce Kay joins us to discuss today's 'chaos feminism': the new postliberal 'feminists agains…

A Compliance-Industrial Complex now swamps every crisis with new layers of governance products, surveillance, regulation, 'experts', and opportunities for financialization... all in the moralised name of fighting problems 'no one can be for'. Norwegian Anthropologist Tereza Østbø Kuldova joins us for an unmissable analysis of the dynamic, drawing o…

The role of Prince Andrew is one of the big 'known unknowns' in the Jeffrey Epstein international sex trafficking and espionage scandal, and Britain has this week taken major steps to keep it unknown. When biographer Andrew Lownie attempted to view correspondence relating to the Prince's controversial trade envoy role, he was told the papers have n…

Why does it seem there's so much at stake in politics, when neither left, nor right, nor centre appears capable of changing anything about people's lives? Benjamin Studebaker joins James and David to discuss the left-wing case for conscription, the Republican Party primary field, the return of COVID mask mandates, the political outlook of Gen Z, an…

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 and to love markets less. Help us develop The Popular S…

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 and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively f…

At the start of 2020, the West African country of The Gambia was emerging from decades of dictatorship and optimistic about a future of democracy, tourism, and international investment. Then COVID-19 hit, and in common with most of Africa, the country adopted the WHO's guidance to lock down. This was an economic, social and developmental disaster, …

A new format where top scholars and commentators respond to our biggest interviews! In TPS166 THE TWO EXES, we spoke to socialist feminist Nancy Fraser about her groundbreaking new work of Marxist theory Cannibal Capitalism. In the inaugural TPS ROUNDTABLE, friends of TPS Jilly Boyce Kay, Olly Haynes, and Mareile Pfannebecker convene to debate Fras…

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…

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for the complete video versions of the #TPSRaceReckoning series and more. Remi Adekoya, a former journalist and academic whose working life has spanned Nigeria, Poland, and the UK, joins #TPSRaceReckoning to discuss his provocative new book. It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth argues that the focus of current antira…

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for more #TPSRaceReckoning with Remi Adekoya and Kenan Malik, plus video versions of this and all our recent episodes. 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 wh…

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 histor…

Subscribe on Patreon NOW for more #TPSRaceReckoning with Remi Adekoya, Adolph Reed jr and Walter Benn Michaels, plus video versions of this and all our recent episodes. 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 t…

The first of our 'cases for' the US presidential candidates seeking to replace Joe Biden in 2024! Aaron Good, 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 …

TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. Full video of all three shows is streaming on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod now. 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 jo…

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 reassesssment of Silvio Berlusconi after his death last week. Help u…

Full video streaming now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. TPS RACE RECKONING is a new miniseries featuring Remi Adekoya, Kenan Malik, Walter Benn Michaels, and Adolph Reed jnr. 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 Suprem…

The patrons-only continuation of our track-by-track analysis of Bob Dylan's Shadow Kingdom with rock writer Allison Rapp.Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpodMore ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshowhttps://cash.ap…

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…

David and James reunite to discuss the cancellation of Roger Waters, the ongoing weaponisation of antisemitism against a sitting mayor in the UK Labour Party, RFK jnr. and Israel PLUS Hannah Gadsby's 'Pablomatic' Picasso exhibition. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us co…

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 and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively f…

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 and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively f…

The Patrons-only continuation of our discussion with Alexander McKay, on the significance of Ron DeSantis, the Right after Trump and Boris, wokewashing and anti-wokewashing, and the coming Starmer disaster... plus! Dinner with Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.…

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 Alexa…

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 …

A taste for patrons of a major series from TPS, coming this summer, reassessing the liberal left's new idiom of race. Remi Adekoya lectures at the University of York, UK, and is the author of 'It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth' Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help …

Leo Damrosch - Havard Prof and biographer of Giacomo Casanova - joins TPS to discuss the work of the notorious eighteenth-century serial lover, amateur philosopher, sometime diplomat, prison-breaker, gambler and memoirist, and the relationship between sex and Enlightenment in Casanova's life. Full video also available for Patreon subscribers: https…