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Varn Vlog

C. Derick Varn

Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Varn Vlog is the pod of C. Derick Varn. We combine the conversation on philosophy, political economy, art, history, culture, anthropology, and geopolitics from a left-wing and culturally informed perspective. We approach the world from a historical lens with an eye for hard truths and structural analysis.

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438 épisodes

  1. Wired For Authoritarianism with Charles Derber 1:42:52
  2. Anti-Politics Still Explains Politics with Tad Tietze 1:34:17
  3. How Conservative Media Moved From Magazines To Platforms with Howard Polskins 1:06:25
  4. Liberal Socialism Explained with Matt McManus 1:28:18
  5. Neoplatonism For Real People with Max Wade 1:58:19
  6. An Inconvenient Woman and the Reactionary South with Keri Leight Merritt 1:24:26
  7. Green Scare And The Radical Environmental Movement with Scott Parkin and Thomas Zietzoff 1:31:25
  8. Silicon Empires: How Big Tech Is Re-Mapping Geopolitics and Labor with Nick Srnicek 1:31:44
  9. Leninism in the Age of Populism: Anti-Economism, Strategy & The Left with PK Gandakin 2:15:49
  10. The Masculinity Vacuum with Bram Geiben 3:24:53
  11. From Dawn to Decadence: The Decadent Society 1:37:04
  12. Brandon Lightly on the New Democracy and National Fronts 2:22:59
  13. Ben Burgis on Confessing Class Reductionism 2:15:07
  14. The Shadow Court and Protecting Democracy with Julie Suk 1:38:09
  15. Alabama Prisons At A Breaking Point with Matthew Vernon Whalan 1:20:35
  16. Egypt After The Revolution with Hossam el-Hamalawy 1:50:39
  17. What Happens To Class Politics In A Service Economy with Annie McClanahan 1:20:42
  18. Green Politics After The AI Boom with James of Prole Kult 1:58:29
  19. Maoism Without The Myths with Black Red Guard 1:32:40
  20. Trade Wars As Social Wars with Benjamin Studebaker 2:31:50
  21. Education, Literacy, and the Limits of Reform with Freddie deBoer 1:43:09
  22. Policing American Slavery: How the Slave Power Weaponized Society and the State with Gautham Rao 1:37:25
  23. Rewriting Columbus From The Taino View with Andrew Rowen 1:20:52
  24. Geopolitics of the Data Economy: Tech Monopoly, Neoliberalism, Resource Wars with ProleKult 2:10:30
  25. Brandon Lightly on the Mass LIne and New Democracy, Part 2 1:27:42
  26. Writing and Revolution: Cultural Production vs. Neoliberal Aesthetics with Sudip Bhattacharya 2:25:18
  27. The Cultural Marxism Myth with A.J.A. Woods 3:39:40
  28. A People’s History of the Mets: Urban Planning, Labor, and Radical Politics with A.M. Gittlitz 1:22:55
  29. Cold War Cinema — History, Propaganda, and Left-Wing Film Analysis with Jason Christian & Tony Ballas 2:32:55
  30. Gerontocracy in America: Samuel Moyn on Aging Wealth and Shifting Power 1:19:36
  31. Why Jordan Peterson is Wrong About Jung with Rob Faure Walker 2:31:51
  32. Brandon Lightly on the Mass Line and New Democracy, Part 1 1:51:09
  33. Screened Realities and the Complicit Lens: Robin Andersen on Media Complicity in Gaza and Beyond 1:11:45
  34. Real Internationalism: Inside the RAIZ International Project 1:08:50
  35. Grade Scandals, Bureaucracy, and the Truth About the Teacher Shortage with Chris Papst 46:18
  36. Solidarity or Silence?: How Leftist Politics Often Overlooks the Disabled with Anthony David Vernon 1:29:56
  37. Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing with Sam Badger 1:49:14
  38. The Stranger Side of Ancient Philosophy: Materialism & Metaphysics with Max Wade 2:12:20
  39. Revolutionary Strategy Today with the Angry Workers Collective 1:15:18
  40. Up vs. Down: Bypassing the Two-Party Sorting Mechanism with Travis Misurell 52:57
  41. Decoding the Tragedy of Noam Chomsky with Dr. Chris Knight 1:08:04
  42. The Prospects of DSA: Party Building, Power, and the Marxist Unity Group 1:24:50
  43. Communist Unity in Oceania: The Future of Socialist Organizing in Australia 2:15:15
  44. The Quest for Narrative From World Travels to Technology with Miles Spencer 48:15
  45. The Castaneda Con with Ru Marshall 1:16:08
  46. The Left-Wing Deadbeat with Nurse John 1:17:03
  47. The K-Shaped Decade with Matt Borka 1:38:11
  48. From Dawn To Decadence, Part 6: Aufheben's Decay 1:33:46
  49. German Romanticism and Idealism Beyond Nostalgia And Reaction 1:38:36
  50. Diving Into the Wreckage: The French Left Remains Unbowed 1:18:59