We're building a smarter, funnier, and more appealing left one episode at a time! Every Saturday, Give Them An Argument is recorded with a Zoom "studio audience." The Zoom recordings are posted right away at patreon.com/benburgis and it goes out into the world as a YouTube video and a podcast on Monday.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 9 hours 55 minutes
episode 5: Episode 5 - The Cabin in the Woods Election
Ben is joined by authors Christopher Patton (Author of "The Iowa City Police Log: Life and Strife in a Midwestern College Town" https://littlevillagemag.com/product/pre-order-iowa-city-police-log-life-and-strife-in-a-midwestern-college-town/), Thomas Frank (Author of "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism" https://redemmas...
episode 4: Episode 4 - Ayn Rand Was Wrong About Everything
After an examination of why Ed Markey is absolutely right to talk about "what your country can do for you," Ben is joined by Nathan J. Robinson to talk about an article they co-wrote about Glenn Beck for the new issue of Current Affairs, Yaron Brook debates Ben about Ayn Rand, and David Griscom comes back to drink tequila and talk about the politics of country music.
episode 3: 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!
episode 2: Episode 2 - The Story of Joe Biden and Louis CK
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.
episode 1: 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.