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Welcome back to our jaunt through Alejo Carpentier’s “El siglo de las luces”, a maritime escapade in the Americas at the time of the French Revolution. With some of the literary theory covered already in episode 1, where we made the case for why this is a unique example of historical realism, we finally enjoy retelling the arc of the story and reading sections of its lurid prose. A deserted island...

[Recorded 31 January 2025] A continuation of our discussion on Marx's "forgotten text," Herr Vogt: A Spy in the Workers' Movement.  Support the show

[Recorded on 29 July 2025.]  We sat down with the always insightful Christopher Mott of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy to talk about the patterns of American culture and their effects on foreign policy. His distinctive blend of cultural criticism, global history, and strategic thinking were on full display. Listeners will enjoy our discussion of the deep history of Eurasia in his 2015 book...

Welcome back to our mini-series on realism and the Latin American novel. In this episode, we provide a thorough engagement with the late Peruvian master, Mario Vargas Llosa, an author of major works from all the way back in the 1950s to the current decade. Pat speaks with Neil Larsen, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, about his seminal essay, “Mario Vargas Llosa: The Realist as Neo-Lib...

[Recorded on 15 December 2025] In this opening installment of our series on literary realism, we focus on Alejo Carpentier’s El siglo de las luces ( Explosion in a Cathedral ). This work holds particular significance for the show, as host Pat dedicated a substantial portion of his dissertation to Carpentier's life and literature. We approach the novel as a primary example of how literature ca...

We sat down with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Associate Professor of History at California State University Stanislaus. He specializes in the history of the modern Middle East, American foreign policy, and the political economy of oil and natural gas. His previous book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq was the subject of one of our first interviews at After the...

Nicholas Mulder is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at Cornell University. His previous book is The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War and he is currently close to completion on a book entitled The Age of Confiscation: Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World. He also started a Substack last year which contains some of the best com...

Interest in Karl Marx is surging amidst current debates on economic inequality . Join us as we sit down with historian Andrew Hartman to discuss his fascinating new book, Karl Marx in America , a comprehensive account of how Marx's writings have been used and interpreted in the United States from the late 19th century through the modern era. Professor Hartman explores the century-plus evoluti...

One of the most striking developments in recent intellectual life has been the convergence of critics from both the conservative and Marxist traditions, united in their skepticism toward the excesses of progressive liberalism. Few outlets embody this shift as much as Compact magazine, where unlikely allies have found common ground in challenging America’s domestic administrative state, its global...

In this episode, we sit down with historian Greg Grandin to discuss his new book America, América , which reimagines the hemisphere’s intertwined republican traditions and confronts the United States’ monopolization of the very idea of “America.” Known for landmark works such as The Empire of Necessity and The End of the Myth , Grandin has long illuminated Latin America’s central role in the makin...

On this episode, we're excited to present an interview Pat recorded on July 10th with the author and researcher Aaron Good. As with other upcoming interviews, this was a great opportunity to break out of the inherent insolation of social media and inform our positions on the interstate order by engaging with one of the brightest perspectives in the political science discipline. In addition to...

[Recorded on 26 April 2025] After the End of History discusses The Grayzone's interview with Andres Duran .  Support the show

[Recorded on 14 April 2025] In this week's discussion, ATEOH take a look at the New York Times long read, " The Secret History of the War in Ukraine ." What "revelations" has the article surfaced, and how does this all bode for the broader implications of the war? Is NATO headed for collapse? What are the strategic lessons for future conflicts, particularly with China? Our...

[Recorded 31 January 2025] A continuation of our discussion on Marx's "forgotten text,"  Herr Vogt: A Spy in the Workers' Movement.  Support the show

We sat down to discuss Karl Marx's scattered writings on Latin America, where he considers the Incan communitarian societies, the War of Independence, and the modern states' 'weak' geopolitical stature. Pat helps unpack the controversy touched off by Marx's attack on Simón Bolívar, putting it into context alongside writings on the American Civil War and the anthropological...

[Recorded on 6 September 2024]  ATEOH's second discussion on Emmanuel Todd: A Review of the Most Interesting Cultural Analyses of the West.  Support the show

[Recorded on 8/28/2024] In episode 6 of this season, ATEOH conducts a review of the most interesting cultural analyses of the West. Texts:  Niall Ferguson - “We’re All Soviets Now” - Niall Ferguson: We’re All Soviets Now | The Free Press ( thefp.com ) “Could Dementia in National Security Workforce Create Security Threat” RAND Corporation Study. Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Cre...

Karl Marx's Herr Vogt - Episode 1: This episode is related to our recent concentration on Debord and our interest in recuperating a tradition of how the Left has historically responded to the problem of state intelligence infiltration and propaganda.  Support the show

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Recorded on 4 May, 2024: a wide-ranging discussion with Bill Brown (of notbored.org) on the Situationist International.  Support the show

ATEOH discusses Thomas Meaney's latest for Harper's .  Support the show

A continuation of our wide-ranging discussion on Roberto Bolaño. ATEOH is guaranteed the only podcast to discuss eunuchs, Peso Pluma, Oswaldo Zavala, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Antonio Gramsci in the same episode.  Support the show

[Recorded on January 22, 2024] Longtime friend, ATEOH supporter and commentator of Latin American politics, Pat Cabell, joins us for a discussion on the great Chilean novelist, Robert Bolaño, and his work's relevance to themes of realism, international relations and revolutionary politics.  Drawing from an array of texts including 2666, By Night in Chile   and Distant Star and the works of Fr...

A continuation of our discussion on Stephen Brooks's  Producing Security.  Support the show

Mario looks at Seymour Hersh’s latest on corruption inside Ukraine and assesses those claims alongside some of the more elliptical admissions from the mainstream press .  The music you hear on After the End of History is courtesy of Matt Coakley and Jason King. Thanks for listening.  Support the show