WHAT IS POLITICS?
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This podcast explores the confusing and often contradictory nature of political concepts like left, right, democracy, capitalism, and socialism. It aims to clarify these terms and help listeners understand what they truly want from politics. The series critiques media and Cold War propaganda to provide a clearer framework for political thought.
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10.5d – The Real Dawn of Everything pt. 4: the origins of modern life and prospects for the future 21.06.2026Why did social liberalism become widespread again, after thousands of years of socially conservative tribes, monarchies and empires? How did democratic states re-emerge after thousands of years of the state being primarily a tool to help ruling classes steal grain... Continue Reading → -
10.5c – The Real Dawn of Everything: from democratic chieftains to despotic monarchs 01.06.2026This segment outlines the role that bargaining power plays in: 1. how social classes and economic hierarchy emerged around the world in cultures that initially had tribes made up of equal families 2. how authoritarian kings and emperors emerged, where... Continue Reading → -
10.5b – The real Dawn of Everything: from socially liberal bands to conservative patriarchal tribes 14.05.2026How did human societies go from socially liberal, gender equal band societies to male dominated, gerontocratic, socially conservative tribal societies? Why did some societies maintain gender equality despite adopting gerontocracy and tribalism? Part 2 of a 4 part series tracking... Continue Reading → -
10.5a – The Real Dawn of Everything: why our early ancestors were egalitarian and socially liberal 12.05.2026Can we stop our civilization from collapsing into more and more inequality and less and less democracy? Are our only choices to be ruled by an owner class of infantile, out of touch zillionaire lunatics, or else an intellectual class... Continue Reading → -
9.4 – Noam Chomsky: what does the evidence actually say about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? 25.03.2026Why was Noam Chomsky – scourge of the american elite – BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein, the personification of the worst aspects of that elite? Why was Chomsky giving Epstein advice on how to deal with attacks against him in... Continue Reading → -
9.5 – Why the “Left” is full of Cancel Goblins, Stalinist Gooners, D.E.Idiots and Post-Modern Tallywankers 05.03.2026As inequality gets worse and worse, hostility for elites is at all time highs, and huge majorities of voters want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for social programs, all the conditions are perfect for the left to be... Continue Reading → -
17 – Socialism for Conservatives, Free Markets for Socialists and the Tyranny of Property Rights 28.01.2026Today, free markets are championed as the foundation of capitalism, while socialists argue that free markets cause growing inequality and exploitation of the working classes, and thus need to be constrained by the state, or else abolished entirely. But in... Continue Reading → -
16.1 – A Realistic Solution to the Forever Housing Crisis (make it happen!) 16.12.2025In this episode we outline: How to build enough affordable housing for everyone using an existing housing model that’s proven to work. How to pay for it. How to convert existing market rate housing into affordable housing. How we can... Continue Reading → -
12.3 The Great Land Theft (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 3) 23.11.2025In this chapter of Secret History of Israel/Palestine, we look how the small urban elite stole much of region’s land from it’s rightful peasant owners, turning them from an independent tribal peasantry, into a class of impoverished, indebted tenants on... Continue Reading → -
12.2 Fellahin and Bedouin in the Ottoman Empire (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 2) 17.10.2025Who were the people of Palestine and what were their lives about in the late 19th century, before the first Zionists began arriving from Europe in the 1880s? This episode focuses on the fellahin – the peasants of Palestine... Continue Reading → -
16 – Dumbundance: can the “Abundance Agenda” fix the eternal housing crisis? 02.09.2025In the book Abundance, left liberal authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson identify unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape as an important factor in why there is a shortage of housing across the USA. Very quickly, billionaires and powerful donors have... Continue Reading → -
15 – How Inequality of Wealth and Power are like Obesity and Diabetes 04.08.2025Why are human beings so greedy and why are our societies so hierarchical, if our ancestors were so fiercely egalitarian? What is “human nature” in this regard? A new theory about inequality of wealth and power in human societies.... Continue Reading → -
Hello, Fellow Jews! How Lies About Oslo led to the Destruction of Gaza 01.07.2025My message to Jewish supporters of the war in Gaza. (TIMESTAMPS BELOW) TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE: PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS: KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: TRANSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY / WORKS CITED VIDEO... Continue Reading → -
14 – Why Elites Ruined the Meaning of the Left Right Political Spectrum (and we need it back!) 30.05.2025Market Exit, like many others before him, tells us that the left-right political spectrum is obsolete and does more harm than good. That’s because he doesn’t know what they mean. This video explains: 1. What the political left and right... Continue Reading → -
13 – “Nationalism vs. Globalism”: Why is the Populist Right on the Rise? 01.05.2025Why are nationalist / populist / far right candidates and parties getting elected all around the world? Why isn’t the populist left enjoying the same success? Why does inequality keep getting worse nomatter who gets elected? PAYPAL ONE TIME OR... Continue Reading → -
12.1 – The Jews of Europe and the rise of Zionism (secret history of Israel / Palestine, Part I) 01.04.2025This series focuses on those aspects of the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict that partisans on both sides mutually ignore. This episode examines jewish life in Europe and the conditions leading to the rise of Zionism until the first wave... Continue Reading →
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Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine 30.04.2024This is a Q&A where I respond to questions and critiques about episode 12: The ABC’s of Israel/Palestine (https://youtu.be/OLr_VCqnId0) and also go off on a whole bunch of related tangents. TIMESTAMPS BELOW! BIBLIOGRAPHY: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102834580 (no paywall) I purposefully don’t monetize... Continue Reading → -
Brainstorm: Israel/Palestine – Who Started It? 23.04.2024What was supposed to be an informal QnA about the “Israel/Palestine ABCs” episode, turned into a What is Politics “live” brainstorm session à la Matt Christman “grillstream,” where I discuss my arguments and readings on who and what started the... Continue Reading → -
12: From “Never Again” to “There are No Uninvolved Civilians”: The ABC’s of the Israel/Palestine Conflict 05.03.2024Elites use identity, particularly national identity, as a way of advancing their own interests, often against the interests of the populations that they pretend to represent. But before we can understand this, we need an ABC of the conflict, to... Continue Reading → -
9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice 10.08.2023When ideas and movements that threaten to overturn established hierarchies of power are absorbed into elite institutions like Ivy League universities and for-profit corporations, they get transformed into ideas that support the status quo, while remaining cloaked in the language... Continue Reading →
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