Philip Mckenzie Podcasts

Paul Cockshott, now retired, was a Reader at the University of Glasgow and is the author of numerous works on socialism and economic planning. We discussed how workers' control of the means of production gradually moved outside the imagination of the organised Left and how capitalism itself leads us to question how we might move beyond it. For part…

This is the first lecture in a series about how to think critically about social problems. If you would like to hear/watch the rest of the series, please send me a comment. In this edition, I tell two stories and ask you to think about what makes them memorable. The stories that we tell about social problems are similar: They are memorable, but we …

Calum Nicholson is a social anthropologist and a lecturer at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the MCC's Climate Policy Institute and has written on diverse issues from climate migration to the culture wars--even though he himself has chosen to stay off social media. For part 2 visit: www.pa…

Gord Magill is a Canadian trucker and the host of the Voice of Gord podcast. He also writes for Newsweek, UnHerd, Compact and others. In this special, recorded on location in New York, we talked about the legacy of the trucker convoy, the pervasiveness of surveillance, and why no one believes in humanity anymore. Part 2 is at www.patreon.com/Ashley…

Jennie Bristow is a Reader in Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is the author of several books including The Sociology of Generations and Stop Mugging Grandma. We talked about how our understanding of generations influences how we think about problems in social and political life and whether young people today have been shortcha…

Eli Sennesh is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University in the field of computational affect science. We spoke about how human subjects are degraded in our scientific and technological approaches and the way that this leads to bad outcomes. In part 2, we went into more depth about the effect of bad economics and how we might overcome t…

Umut Ozkirimli is the author of the recently released Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke. He is a Senior Research Fellow at IBEI (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals), a professor at Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University, and a Senior Research Associate at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). We talked about the origins of i…

It's October! My favourite month! Susanna Kleeman, Doug Lain and I discuss why we seem to love all things horror. For part 2 visit: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawleyBy ashleyfy

This week you get an exclusive look at a lecture on how problems are increasingly psychologised through the language of "trauma". Are indigenous people in Canada really "traumatised"? Is this a form of de-colonisation? Or is it deep colonisation: colonisation of our minds through a kindly language that disarms us and brings us on side. (NB: The wom…

Ted Reese is the author of The End of Capitalism and a columnist at Sublation Magazine. We did the unthinkable and allowed ourselves to think about a future that isn't a post-apocalyptic wasteland and discussed how we might get there. For Part 2, visit: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawleyBy ashleyfy

Daniel Ben-Ami is a journalist and author. Recently, he's been raising the alarm that anti-semitism making a comeback in public debate. The trouble is that it's harder to recognise than ever. We spoke about how anti-semitism operates across the political spectrum and how it can be fed by the failure of normal politics to live up to its own ideals. …

Leigh Phillips is a science writer and political journalist and the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts and The People's Republic of Wal-Mart (co-authored with Michal Rozworski). We talked about whether or not capitalism is producing the basis for socialism in what might at first seem to be the most unlikely of places--Amazon an…

Thomas Fazi writes for Compact and UnHerd and is the author of The Battle for Europe, Reclaiming the State, and the Covid Consensus. We spoke about his recent essays for UnHerd where he questions the prevailing narrative that the war in Ukraine was "unprovoked" and primarily about democracy, sovereignty and freedom. For part 2, visit: www.patreon.c…

James Coyne, infamous critic of all things bad science, gives me insight into the seedy underbelly of Positive Psychology. There's gossip, there's prostitutes and there's hot tubs. Enjoy! Listen to part 2 at www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawleyBy ashleyfy

I'm a bit late getting the podcast out this week, so you get a bonus lecture introducing Marx and Marxism. The regular podcast will be out tomorrow. To see part 2 visit www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawleyBy ashleyfy

Robert Forde is the author of Bad Psychology: How Forensic Psychology Left Science Behind. He has worked as an educational social worker, a prison psychologist, and as a forensic psychologist in private practice--an experience that made him realise that forensic psychology had left science behind. Watch/listen to part 2 on Patreon: www.patreon.com/…

Okay, well maybe sometimes we do--but not nearly as often and in the ways "global early childhood development" would have us believe. Gabriel Scheidecker is an anthropologist in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich. His ethnographic research presents a challenge to rapidly globalising ideas about t…

Lisa McKenzie is an author, anarchist and "working-class academic". She is the author of Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain. We talked about what it's like in the academy coming from a working-class background, the framing of the working class as over-consuming and toxic, and what will happen if politics continues on its tr…

Paul Embery is a trade unionist and writer. He is the author of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. We talk about Brexit and the wrong moves that Labour and the trade union movement have taken over the past several decades and what needs to be done to achieve real representation for those who feel left behind. This conversation…

Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan are the authors of Free Your Mind, out today from Harper Collins. In our conversation, they explain how governments use underhanded tactics to evade democracy and get you to do what they want. How can you resist this and free your mind? Watch part 2 on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley…

Chris Cutrone is the author of the Death of the Millenial Left. He teaches at the University of Chicago, where he also completed his PhD on Adorno’s Marxism. He is the original organizer and President of the Platypus Affiliated Society. We talked about his new book and whether the working class really needs to be convinced of anything we're saying.…

Philip Cunliffe is Associate Professor of International Relations at University College London, co-host of the Bungacast podcast, and co-author of Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit. We talked about how Labour gave up on labour and the hope of igniting real politics after populism. In part 2, Phil actually gave me hope that mayb…

Simon Winlow and Steve Hall are the authors of The Death of the Left. We talked about the old left and what killed it, what it would take to bring it back, and whether freedom is an empty word. Listen to part 2 here: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawleyBy ashleyfy

This week, Doug Lain was unexpectedly booted off Twitter. In pursuit of our quest to free Doug Lain from Twitter jail, I'm posting the Patreon exclusive part 2 of our conversation imagining a terrible world after capitalism. For this conversation, I read the final chapter of my new book and also managed to find my favourite podcast of Doug's, The S…

World War III, UFOs, and Apple Vision Pro's augmented reality are all in the news - but Doug Lain knew they were in our future when he wrote Bash Bash Revolution and After the Saucers Landed. I spoke to him about all of the above and whether or not we can trust humanity to shape the future. Watch/listen to part 2 where I also read the final chapter…

I talked to the comedian and host of Headliners, Simon Evans about everything from comedy and the media, parenting, economics, and the politics of left and right. You can see him touring his show The Work of the Devil or catch him at 11pm on Headliners on GB News. Part 2 here: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley…

James Lindsay is a cultural critic and author most recently of the books Race Marxism and Counter Wokecraft. He co-authored the book Cynical Theories with Helen Pluckrose. We discuss our shared distaste for all things "woke" and how the Left lost its way. You can watch the second part of our conversation on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley.…

Joel Kotkin is described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer”. We discuss his latest book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, and the ways that society seems to be moving backward. You can watch the second part of our conversation on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley where I also post video essa…

Frank Furedi is Emeritus Prof of Sociology at the University of Kent and author of 26 books. We discuss his history as a young radical, whether he's left the Left, why the culture war matters, and identity politics. You can watch the second half of our conversation on Patreon: www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley where I also post video essays, articles,…