Varn Vlog

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nicolas D. Villarreal is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory.  He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum.   We discuss workers' inquiry, economic analysis and its difficulties, theories of interpretation, and the purpose o...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Today we are talking to Cyber Dandy,  who blogs at Cyber Dandy and vlogs on Cyber Dandy Youtube on existentialism, leftism, anarchism, and the post-Biden left milieu.  We talk about anti-communism and anti-radicalism in the US from in 1940s-1970s. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel St...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Gabriel Winant is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His writing about work, inequality, and capitalism in modern America has appeared in The Nation, the New Republic, Dissent, and n+1.  We discuss the legacy of Barbara Ehrenreich, the development of her concept of the PMC, us...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Spencer returns to the show to begin the first of our series on the history and issues of the left in India.   He brings two fellow scholars from South Asia, Dwaipayan Sen, and Atiya Singh.  Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan a...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This is Strange Matters and Varn Vlog collaboration. Zhala Taghi-Zada is a Clinical Research Coordinator based in Toronto.  We discuss her recent article on " The Complex Stigma of Schizophrenia" and the implications of mental health in the Canadian (and US) legal system.    Support Strange Matt...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Mike Gouldhawke is a Métis & Cree writer, whose family is from kistahpinanihk (City of Prince Albert) and nêwo-nâkîwin (Mont Nebo) in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan.  He is also an amateur Marxologist and has written for publications like Briarpatch, New Inquiry, and Redwire on both indigenous and...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Chris is a friend of the show and co-host of Regrettable Century and No Royal Road (with me and his brother Jason).  Chris is also a doctoral student studying Weimar Germany and we discuss the German conservative revolutions.  This will likely be a series.  There are some points where the connection gets...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Andrei Migunov ( @FelixCowsdorff ) teaches computer science at Drake University. We discuss the various meanings of complexity and system theory, the left reaction to science, logic, math, computational limitations, scientific theory, and much more. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. M.C. Toussaint is a producer for This Is Revolution and has worked with Jacobin and Majority Report.  We talk about her journey into socialism through environmentalism and ecology.  Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Der...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Alex Hochuli is a co-host of Bunga Cast   and co-author of the " End of the End of History ."  We discuss the situation in Brazil, anglophone left narratives about it, and why we should be happy Lula won but temper our expectations. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-host of Death Panel podcast and the co-author of Health Communism . We talk about the limits of current left thinking around health and disability, the problems of illness and socialism, and how Marxian analysis in health care leads to some surprising conclusions.    Crew:...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. Founder of Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation with the Palgrave Lacan Series and an Adjunct Professor of ph...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. This episode is part of a partnership between Varn Vlog and Strange Matters Magazine. Tim DiMuzio  is an Associate Professor in International Relations and Critical Politcial Economy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. .  Previous to this role he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Exc...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Conan Neutron (@conanneutron) of Protonic Reversal podcast, Movie Night Extravaganza ,  and the band, Conan Neutron and His Secret Friends returns.  We talk about his tour; we talk about his new ep; we talk comics; we talk post covid politics. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. We discuss an article by Jason Myles on the legacy of Woodstock.  Jason Myles is the primary host of This Is Revolution and a musician with Bitterlake.  We discuss rock and roll and politics but veer off to talk about Jason's new show on TIR about pop culture, film, and music as well as the way polit...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Colin Dodds is a writer with several books to his name, including Ms. Never and Windfall. He grew up in Massachusetts and lived in California briefly, before finishing his education in New York City. Since then, he’s made his living as a journalist, editor, copywriter, and video producer. His work has app...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. Founder of Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation with the Palgrave Lacan Series and an Adjunct Professor of ph...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Ralf Ruckus is the author of Communist Road to Capitalism (PM Press) .Ralf Ruckus has been involved in squatting, militant inquiries, labor struggles, and cross-border solidarity for decades, mainly in Western and Eastern Europe, East and Southeast Asia, and North America. China has been Ralf’s main focus...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Julian Assele ( @Catholicclod) is a writer and researcher who writes on socialism and Marxism. We discuss Emmanuel Wallerstein and the World Systems Analysis. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outr...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. CAROLYN J. EICHNER teaches in the Departments of History and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her books include Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune, The Paris Commune: A Brief History,  and Feminism's Empire.  We discuss the legacy of wom...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Elijah Emery is a Cornell student researching Christopher Lasch. We discuss the applications and limitations of Lasch. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Des...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Djene  Bajalan is a historian of the Middle East specializing in the rise of nationalism and the evolution of the Kurdish question. He is an associate professor at Missouri State University, the co-host of This is Revolution and a co-host of Gaming Materialists. He also sometimes writes for Jacobin.  He d...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Elijah Emery is a Cornell student researching Christopher Lasch. We discuss the applications and limitations of Lasch. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake. Intro Videos Des...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Nicholas  C  Scott is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at the University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of the role of the Cordones during the Chilean revolution.  We discuss the situation of the current Chilean government. Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Stri...

Please support our Patreon.   For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more. Brad Wydra is the host of Touring News . He covers climate, macroeconomics, agriculture, geopolitics, and currency. Note: I called semi-conductors, super-conductors.  Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur ) Branding Design: Djene Bajalan and C. Derick Varn Intro...