Give Them An Argument

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...

11/02/2025

Vivek Chibber is an sociology professor at NYU, the editor the socialist journal Catalyst, and the host of Jacobin's new podcast "Confronting Capitalism." He's written a few books, including "The Class Matrix." Recently, a lot of the most unhinged people on Left Twitter got very mad at him for a "Confronting Capitalism" episode he did trying to analyze the historical origins, material dynamics, and counterproductive consequences for the Left of the phenomenon generally referred to by the imperfect name of "wokeness." He joins Ben Burgis to discuss the controversy, and how socialists can be more effective. Before that, Ben will do an Opening Argument on class theory. Last but definitely not least, in the postgame for patrons, Ben and the crew will be chatting w/Chris Kerrigan, the creator of "Alan Dershowitz vs. Norman Finkelstein: The Musical" and many other delightful videos.

Read a transcript of Chibber's controversial Confronting Capitalism episode at Jacobin:

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/elite-identity-politics-professional-class

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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...

04/02/2025

Philosophy professor and "Micro-Digressions" host Spencer Case joins Ben Burgis for a friendly debate on abortion rights. Before that, Ben and the crew talk about RFK's insane critique of Medicare for All and Left Twitter's anger at Vivek Chibber over a recent episode of his Jacobin podcast "Confronting Capitalism" (and why Ben thinks Chibber's point was correct). No postgame tonight, sorry, but we'll make it up to our loyal patrons with a particularly awesome one next week!

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