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Zero Squared #127: Nagle Answers Her Critics (Such as They Are)
Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies earned her the title "an old leftist's idea of what a young leftist should be" by her detractors and "one of the brightest lights in a new generation of left writers who have declared independence from intellectual confo...
Inside Zero Books #48: The Concept of the Left
This week's Inside Zero Books podcast is the second half of a conversation about Leszek Kolakowski's essay "The Concept of the Left" with the Zero Books reader C Derick Varn. Varn is a reader at Zero Books, a poet,
Zero Squared #126: Free Speech, Communism and the DSA
Adam Proctor is a scholar in Neo-Marxian state theory and class formation, labor history in the 20th century, and the development of racial formations. He is also a member of the DSA and the host of one the new leftist podcasts that make me feel old an...
Zero Squared #125: Overcoming Capitalism
Terry Tapp is an artist and writer living in New York City. Originally from Central Appalachia, Terry spent many years working trade jobs, wandering through the American south, all the while creating art and writing.
Inside Zero Books #44: Does Free Speech Work?
This week's Inside Zero Books features an intergenerational debate between a Millennial and a Slacker on the topic of Free Speech. Is concern about protecting free speech merely a liberal/centrist notion or is it there something radical about free spee...
Zero Squared #123: Gaffney Called Out
Frankie Gaffney is the guest this week, and he’s the author of the novel Dublin Seven and a writer for the Irish Times, the Dublin Inquirer, Broadsheet and many other publications. In May this year, he wrote a piece for the Irish Times entitled Identit...
Zero Squared #122: Lacan’s Television
Vakhtang Gomelauri is a therapist and self-proclaimed psychoanalyst working in NYC who is influenced by the ideas of the Jacques Lacan and this week he’s stopped by to discuss the book Television by Jacques Lacan,
Zero Squared #121: Realizing Liberal Values?
C Derick Varn is the guest this week. Varn is a reader at Zero Books, a University lecturer and teacher, a poet, and a frequent guest on this podcast and many others. This week we discuss the contradictions in liberalism and debate whether the goal of ...
Zero Squared #120: Why did leftists head to 8chan?
An anonymous member of leftypol is the guest on this week’s Zero Books podcast. According to the website Know Your Meme leftypol “consists of users who sympathizes with communist ideology and viewpoint. Although many of the memes are centered around th...
Zero Squared #119: How the Establishment Lost Control
Chris Nineham is a founder member of the Stop the War Coalition. He was one of the organisers of the February 15th,2003 demonstration in London and central to the international co-ordination that led to the protests going global.