Give Them An Argument
Ben Burgis
Give Them An Argument is a YouTube show and podcast dedicated to building a smarter, funnier and more strategic Left. New episodes are live on YouTube on Monday nights with an exclusive postgame for GTAA patrons after the main show. (To become a patron, go to patreon.com/benburgis and sign up for the monthly cost of a milkshake at a 50s nostalgia diner in 1994.) Past guests have included Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, David Pizarro, Gregory Sadler, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Bhaskar Sunkara, Sam Seder, Ana Kasparian, Emma Vigeland, Matt Christman, and Amber Frost. The show has also featured debates between host Ben Burgis and opponents ranging from Walter Block to Charlie Kirk.Ben is a philosophy professor, Jacobin columnist, and frequent debater. He did a regular "Debunk" segment on the Michael Brooks Show until 2020. He's appeared on the Debate Night with Charlie Kirk, System Update with Glenn Greenwald, Rising, Krystal, Kyle & Friends, the Majority Report w/Sam Seder & the Joe Rogan Experience.benburgis.compatreon.com/benburgis
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Aug 24, 2020 • 2h 7min
Episode 3 - Chapo Goes on GTAA
Ben is joined by Djene Bajalan from Missouri State University, Eric Levitz from New York Magazine, Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House, and Meagan Day from Jacobin. David Griscom does the first installment in his new weekly "Outlaws & Revolutionaries" segment to talk about country music and left politics. Oh, and Yoram Hazony is wrong about Marxism and the Enlightenment!Articles mentioned in the episode:The Challenge of Marxism by Yoram Hazony (Quillette)The American AKP by Djene Bajalan and Michael Brooks (Jacobin)'Working Class' Conservatism Doesn't Work Without Unions by Eric Levitz (New York Magazine)
Aug 17, 2020 • 2h 27min
Episode 2 - The Story of Joe Biden and Louis C.K.
Ben is joined by Michael Powell from the New York Times, David Griscom from The Michael Brooks Show, Dave Smith from Part of the Problem, and Ana Kasparian from The Young Turks and Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila.Articles mentioned in the episode:A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury. (Michael Powell)How to Debate Libertarians on Taxes and Destroy Them (Ben Burgis) Without the Ability to Democratically Plan Our Society, We Don't Have True Freedom (Michal Rozwoski)The Left Needs to Stop Falling for Absurd Sex Panics (Liza Featherstone)
Aug 10, 2020 • 2h 11min
Episode 1 - Peak Democrat
Ben is joined by TMBS Super-Producer Matt Lech to talk about Bret Weinstein and the hypocrisy of the IDW, historian Harvey J. Kaye to talk about radical history, Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara to talk about social democracy and the possibilities for a realistic alternative to capitalism, and Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone to talk about DSA's recent electoral victories in New York.
