FROM THE VAULT: ALEX'S PICK (2)
On The Economist and the contradictions of global liberalism.
Alexander Zevin joins us to discuss his work on the 176 year history of the magazine that has accompanied liberalism's global expansion. Has it just reflected the world or has it actually influenced politics? How has The Economist balanced democracy against the interests of finance and the needs of empire? And is the magazine suffering from N.O.B.S.?
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Running order:
/204/ Three Articles: People's Republic of Fleeing
Excerpt: /203/ Positive Biopolitics? ft. Benjamin Bratton
Excerpt: /202/ 3 Articles: Clerisy, War, Football
Excerpt: /201/ Reading Club: The New Class War
/200/ The World In One Country ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /199/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
/198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik
RE-RELEASE: /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /197/ Reading Club: The Breakaway
Excerpt: /196/ Cosmopolitan Dystopia
/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
Excerpt: /191/ Reading Club: Ever Closer Union?
/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
UNLOCKED /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
UNLOCKED /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
Excerpt: /188/ The Huge Package State pt. 2 ft. Anton Jäger
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