Give Them An Argument

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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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 1h42m. Bisher sind 95 Folge(n) erschienen. .

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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!


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 August 24, 2020  2h6m
 
 

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.


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 August 31, 2020  2h11m
 
 

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...


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 September 14, 2020  2h23m
 
 

episode 5: Episode 8 - Drinking Mezcal and Talking About Eugene V. Debs


Ben is joined by Paul Prescod to talk about his Jacobin article "Trump Claims He's Pro-Worker. But His Labor Board Is Trying to Destroy Worker Organizing." (https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/trump-national-labor-relations-board-nlrb) Then Daniel Bessner, Shawn Gude, and returning champion Harvey J. Kaye join the podcast for a panel on Eugene V. Debs and the what the socialist left can learn from its early history...


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 October 5, 2020  2h10m
 
 

episode 6: Episode 6 - Joe Rogan Should Debate Trump Himself


Ben is joined by David Feldman and Emma Vigeland to talk about the election and by Nando Vila to talk about US imperialism in Latin America. In this week's installment of "Outlaws & Revolutionaries," David Griscom talks about the great Blaze Foley. The episode ends with some chat questions about the relationship between socialism and Irish Republicanism, Ben's Michigan State University "Beat Michigan" shirt, and the struggle ahead for the American left.


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 September 21, 2020  2h14m
 
 

episode 7: Episode 7 - Keith Richards Snorted His Dad


Ben is joined by Woke Bros co-host Wosney "Big Wos" Lambrey and Congressional candidate Shahid Buttar. Judith Jarvis Thomson's classic paper "A Defense of Abortion" is revisited in the context of Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. A deeply strange story about Keith Richards is mentioned in passing while Ben discusses Terry Allen with David Griscom during this week's installment of David's weekly "Outlaws & Revolutionaries" segment.


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 September 27, 2020  2h24m
 
 

episode 9: Episode 9 - Ben Talks to Krystal Ball and Debates a Libertarian


Scottish libertarian Antony Sammeroff comes on the pod to debate libertarian and socialist ideas about healthcare. Ben talks to Krystal Ball about the Presidential election and why right-wing populism is a political dead end. Finally, Cole James Cash fills in for David Griscom's usual music segment to talk about his album "2016." This is a good episode, guys. You should give it a listen!


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 October 12, 2020  2h3m
 
 

episode 10: Episode 10 - Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whiskey


Prager U gets the recent history of socialism very wrong. Ben is joined by Matt McManus to talk about the relationship between Marxism and philosophical liberalism and then by Matthew Sitman (and David Griscom) to talk about conservatism, country music, and why those are two very different subjects.


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 October 19, 2020  2h3m
 
 

episode 11: Episode 11 - An Old Lefty from Way Back


Jeff Cohen chats with Ben about VoteTrumpOut. David Feldman comes by to explain that, despite being an "old lefty from way back," he wants Trump to serve a second term. Colette Shade makes her GTAA debut to talk about her New Republic article "Self-Help Hacks at the End of the World." Finally, rapper and activist Napoleon da Legend talks about his music career, mass incarceration, and his relationship with Michael Brooks.


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 October 26, 2020  1h53m
 
 

episode 12: Episode 12 - Disparaging the Boot is a Bootable Offense


Ben reacts to the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn. Greg Belvedere talks about worker coops. There's a panel on the Presidential election featuring Matt Lech, Zeeshan Aleem, Luke Savage, and Katie Halper. Finally, David Griscom memorializes Bill Joe Shaver in the Outlaws & Revolutionaries segment.


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 November 2, 2020  2h6m