Give Them An Argument

Guest host David Griscom and the GTAA crew talk about policing, the right’s lies, and public safety. And then Kurt Hackbarth (@kurthackbarth) joins Dave to talk about how AMLO isn’t threatening democracy--he’s expanding it.Read Kurt's article in Jacobin:https://jacobin.com/2023/03/amlo-mexico-democracy-national-electoral-institute-reform-law-new-york-timesFollow Kurt on Twitter: @KurtHackbarthFollow David on Twitter: @DavidGriscomFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisRead the weekly philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.comVisit benburgis.com

Two weeks ago, Ben Burgis debated Jon Miltimore of the libertarian Foundation for Economic Education at Texas Tech's law school in Lubbock. In this episode, we unlock the full debate (which is about an hour long). Two of our favorite guests, Ana Kasparian and RM Brown, are brought together for the first time (on GTAA anyway) to talk about it. In the postgame for patrons, Ben, Ana and RM discuss Ana's recent encounter with Ben Shapiro. Follow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2Follow Ana on Twitter: @AnaKasparianFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.comRead the philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.com

You know those animations we're always playing of American conservatives as characters in Lovecraftian nightmares? The creator of those, Aamon Hawk, joins us on this episode! We watch his latest ("Yedolf") and a few older videos and chat with him about what he does. In the second half of the show, Jacobin's Nick French talks about his recent article, "How Analytic Philosophers Have Made Sense of Capitalism":https://jacobin.com/2023/01/analytic-philosophy-marxism-capitalism-moral-individualismBen wrote about French's piece (and a previous Jacobin article taking the opposite view) here:https://benburgis.substack.com/p/is-analytic-philosophy-counter-revolutionaryLast but not least, philosophy professor Ryan Lake joins us on the postgame for GTAA patrons to talk about Tim Pool's love of James O'Keefe and hatred for--we're promising we aren't making this up--Plato, Kant, and Bertrand Russell.Follow Aamon on Twitter: @AamonHawkFollow Nick on Twitter: @nickfrenchnycFollow Ryan on Twitter: @chaospetFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.comRead the philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.com

Philosopher, psychologist, and commentator Slavoj Žižek comes back to the show to talk with Ben Burgis about....well....everything. The conversation hits on everything from the relationship between Hegelianism and Marxism to political correctness to Ukraine to how to think about what comes after capitalism. Before we play the interview--and in the postgame for patrons w/Russell Sbriglia--we touch on Ben's article on Steven Crowder (and his recent run-in with Matt Walsh) among other fun subjects.Read Slavoj's articles at Project Syndicate:https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/slavoj-zizekRead Ben's Substack essay on Žižek:https://benburgis.substack.com/p/dont-cancel-zizekRead Ben's Jacobin article on Crowder:https://jacobin.com/2023/01/steven-crowder-billionaire-funds-media-anti-worker-employment-contractsFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

Ben was on a plane back to the West Coast when this aired, but Andy and Cale held down the fort, recapping the big NYC live show and then playing an interview Ben recorded with socialist philosopher and GTAA fan-favorite Lillian Cicerchia about her Jacobin article "socialists Need to Talk About Justice."You can read the article here:https://jacobin.com/2022/12/capitalism-socialism-liberalism-justice-philosophy-marxFollow Lillian on Twitter: @classreductressFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowRead the new philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.comBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

For the last regular Monday night show before Sunday's live show in Nee York, we're joined by a power panel of Sam Seder (of the Majority Report), Jason Myles (of This is Revolution), and RM Brown (who's on YouTube). Before that, Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew talk about recent developments in Brazil and the antics of the American Right. Last but definitely not least, Jordan Dubin and Deep State Kuba hang out in the postgame for GTAA patrons.Get tickets to the joint GTAA/Left Reckoning/This is Revolution "Give Them a Revolution" live show at the Cutting Room in NYC at 7 PM on January 22nd w/Bhaskar Sunkara, Emma Vigeland, Sam Seder, and many more guests:https://www.ticketweb.com/event/this-is-revolution-left-reckoning-cutting-room-tickets/12706315Follow Sam on Twitter: @SamSederFollow Jason on Twitter: @J_Myles_TIRFollow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2Follow Jordan on Twitter: @jayohardeeayenFollow Kuba on Twitter: @DrKuba2Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

This ones packed full of podcasty goodness. Professors Adnan Husain & Harvey J. Kaye, both returning  GTAA champions, return for a discussion of Marx's theory of history. Before that, Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew talk about Tim Pool's latest attacks on socialism. At the end of the show, they go over some clips from the debate Ben hosted on his Callin show between Glenn Greenwald and Branko Marcetic on "the Bernie/AOC left" and address recent attacks on Ben from Jimmy Dore and Briahna Joy Gray. Finally, Matt McManus hangs out in the postgame for GTAA patrons, talking some Curtis Yarvin.Get tickets to the joint GTAA/Left Reckoning/This is Revolution "Give Them a Revolution" live show at the Cutting Room in NYC at 7 PM on January 22nd w/Bhaskar Sunkara, Emma Vigeland, Sam Seder, and many more guests:https://www.ticketweb.com/event/this-is-revolution-left-reckoning-cutting-room-tickets/12706315Follow Harvey on Twitter: @harveyjkayeFollow Adnan on Twitter: @adnanahusainFollow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProfFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

We're started the New Year and the new season of GTAA with two of our favorite returning guests, Krystal Ball and RM "Arun" Brown. We discuss Andrew Tate, SBF/Crypto, Trump/DeSantis and many of the other very normal things that happened in the very normal year of 2022. RM sticks around to talk Steven Crowder & Tim Pool in the postgame for GTAA patrons.Subscribe to Ben's new "Philosophy for the People" Substack:https://benburgis.substack.com/Read the Announcement post:https://benburgis.substack.com/p/the-big-announcement-postRead the first Sunday essay, "Hume in Hell":https://benburgis.substack.com/p/hume-in-hellGet tickets to the joint GTAA/Left Reckoning/This is Revolution "Give Them a Revolution" live show at the Cutting Room in NYC at 7 PM on January 22nd w/Bhaskar Sunkara, Emma Vigeland, Sam Seder, and many more guests:https://www.ticketweb.com/event/give-them-a-revolution-cutting-room-tickets/12706315Follow Krystal on Twitter: @krystalballFollow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

This is Revolution's "Deep State" Kuba Wrzesniewski talks Rod Dreher, NatCons, "post-liberalism" and related subjects and then political theorist Matt McManus joins us for a discussion of liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill's relationship to socialist thought. Last but definitely not least, Rayvanna from TYT hangs out in the postgame for patrons for some good old-fashioned dunking.Follow Kuba on Twitter: @DrKuba2Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProfFollow Rayvanna on Twitter: @RayyvanaTTVFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBuy tickets for the GTAA/Left Reckoning/This is Revolution live show in NYC on January 22nd (featuring Emma Vigeland, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Sam Seder):https://www.ticketweb.com/event/give-them-a-revolution-cutting-room-tickets/12706315Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

Ben Burgis and Professor Adnan Husain break down G.A. Cohen's essay "Historical Inevitability and Revolutionary Agency." Before that, Ben and RM Brown take a look at the right-wing freakout over the Respect for Marriage Act, which has included Ben Shapiro telling Matt Walsh that even "visitors from Mars" would oppose gay marriage. Last but most definitely not least, Matt McManus hangs out on the postgame for GTAA patrons.Follow Adnan on Twitter: @adnanahusainFollow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProfFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com