Give Them An Argument

04/03/2026

Going live at 1 PM East Coast/10 AM West Coast to talk about Iran:

We're back, baby!Ben Burgis breaks down the idiotic arguments made by the MAGA faithful in defense of Trump's decision to wage an unprovoked, illegal, open-e...

07/09/2025

Starting at 4 PM East Coast/1 West Coast:

Ben and Stefan discuss bad Ben's attempt to understand Marx's theory of value https://benburgis.substack.com/🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Che...

05/06/2025

Peterson went on the Jubilee channel, ostensibly as a Christian, to debate 20 atheists. Predictably, Peterson's loony conversational intransigence and bad fa...

05/05/2025

On tonight's show, Eric Blanc is going to join Ben Burgis to talk about his important new book "We Are the Union" and the way forward for labor, and then for dessert Ben and the crew will watch some Hassan Piker vs. Ethan Klein in the postgame for patrons.

All starts at 8 PM East Coast/5 West Coast!

Eric Blanc joins Ben Burgis to talk about his new book "How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big." Before that, Ben does an Open...

24/04/2025

Ben gives a talk at the Hay Festival in the UK about the low intellectual level from some of Marx's most famous contemporary critics -- the likes of James Li...

29/03/2025

Ben Burgis and philosophy professor and "Micro-Digressions" host Spencer Case are hash out their disagreements on Gaza, Zionism, and related issues. Follow S...

20/03/2025

Burgis invites Tutt to his Capital class to explain what Marx had to say about a down-and-out subsection of the proletariat for whom it is difficult to achie...

17/03/2025

No episode tonight, sorry!

Enjoy your St. Patrick's Day without us, and we'll be back next week.

01/03/2025

My full debate with Walter Block:

Burgis and Block carry out a continuation of a written debate on socialism, libertarianism, and freedom, that started with Ben's article "The Case for Democr...

24/02/2025

Ben is at a conference right now, so can’t do a live episode. We thought we’d have a prerecorded video we could use but that alas is also not to be. Many apologies for the missed episode! We’ll be back next Monday and meanwhile if you’re looking for some light reading to do this evening when you’d normally be watching GTAA, there’s always this:

https://benburgis.substack.com/p/walter-block-and-the-prisoners-dilemma

20/02/2025

From this week's Opening Argument, Ben uses his recent debate with Walter Block as a jumping off point to discuss how libertarianism actually limits personal...

09/02/2025

Ben and Spencer have a mostly philosophical debate about the ethics of abortion -- particularly regarding the issue of bodily autonomy. Many thought experime...