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New York's rising socialist tide w/ Liza Featherstone

June 27, 2026 1:56am 38 min

Liza Featherstone joins PTO to talk about the impressive primary victories for DSA-backed candidates in the New York primaries. We chatted about what the ramifications of the results are - both statewide but also nationa...

Interregnum - Peace in the Gulf?

June 16, 2026 11:58am 44 min

On the peace deal between Iran and the United States, which is expected to see the strait of Hormuz opened in exchange for a lifting of the US naval blockade of Iran. We talked about how seriously to take the deal (given...

Heatwave politics w/ Adrienne Buller

June 13, 2026 2:30am 56 min

Last month the UK was hit by a record-breaking heatwave, part of a wider climate event that affected much of Europe, whilst a subsequent and more severe heatwave hit South Asia. To talk through the politics of heatwaves,...

The rise of the UK far-right w/ Daniel Trilling

June 04, 2026 12:20am 1:14

For decades in much of Europe far-right opinion has had electoral expression in political parties that can command millions of votes, but until relatively recently in Britain anti-migrant and racist views - though preval...

China and the US - a durable thaw? w/ Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

May 18, 2026 5:52am 54 min

China experts Tobita Chow and Jake Werner join PTO to talk about the recently concluded summit in Beijing between the United States and the People's Republic of China. We chatted about whether or not the relative thaw in...

Labour's election disaster w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge

May 10, 2026 1:38pm 42 min

Phil Burton-Cartledge joins PTO to talk about the recent local elections in England and the parliamentary elections in Wales and Scotland in which the Labour Party suffered an historic defeat. We talked about what the re...

American Crusade w/ Eleanor Janega

April 28, 2026 12:15am 1:06

Eleanor Janega joins PTO to talk about the Christian right and the role of Christian Zionist ideology in the minds of key figures in the Trump administration and the decision to launch the US-Israeli war on Iran. We cha...

[UNLOCKED] China and the Iran war w/ William Figueroa

April 22, 2026 12:20am 38 min

William Figueroa returns to PTO to talk about China's response to the US-Israeli war on Iran and the country's role in the subsequent peace negotiations. We chatted about whether the conflict has substantially changed Ch...

Excerpt - China and the Iran war w/ William Figueroa

April 16, 2026 12:50am 2 min

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Strategic defeat in the Gulf w/ Jennifer Kavanagh

April 08, 2026 11:58am 23 min

Jennifer Kavanagh joins PTO to talk about the two-week conditional ceasefire that has been agreed between the United States and Iran, and how the Islamic Republic succeeded in inflicting what looks to be a major strategi...

Excerpt - A hegemonic Iran?

April 04, 2026 3:27am 4 min

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Excerpt - A Hegemonic Iran? w/ Richard Seymour

April 03, 2026 12:07pm 4 min

Excerpt - A Hegemonic Iran? w/ Richard Seymour by Politics Theory Other

Why Iran isn't breaking w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

March 26, 2026 8:59am 56 min

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi joins PTO to talk about the US and Israeli war on Iran, as the conflict - apparently expected to last mere days in the Trump White House - approaches its second month. Eskandar explained why t...

Israel's forever war in Lebanon w/ Nathaniel George

March 12, 2026 12:12pm 1:02

On March 2nd, in the early stages of the ongoing attack on Iran by Israel and the United States, and following the assassination of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah launched mis...

Interregnum - Operation Epic Fury

March 05, 2026 6:38am 42 min

Richard Seymour on the widening war in West Asia. We talked about the current military situation, the confusion around what US and Israeli objectives are, and the divergent responses of European states to the attack. We ...

Excerpt - James Meadway on the Green's historic byelection victory

February 28, 2026 3:45am 1 min

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Excerpt - James Meadway on the Green's historic by-election victory

February 27, 2026 10:01am 1 min

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Interregnum - Labour's Death Spiral

February 21, 2026 12:15am 45 min

On the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party following the resignation of Morgan McSweeney, over the appointment of Jeffrey Epstein associate Peter Mandelson to the position of US ambassador. We talked about why the par...

Interregnum - mail bag (part one)

February 04, 2026 12:30am 2 min

If you'd like to listen to this episode of PTO Extra! please consider becoming a £5 patron of the show at patreon.com/poltheoryother Richard responds to some more excellent listener questions. Topics included: - What ...

Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh

January 28, 2026 12:15am 43 min

Nikhil Pal Singh joins PTO to discuss his recent article in Equator, titled Homeland Empire - in which Nikhil argues that from from Venezuela to Minnesota, Donald Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing...

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