7 August 2025
Economics
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Time for a monetary reset?
A society riddled with debt is a society that is reluctant or unable to spend. A lot of that debt has now found its way into housing, with mortgages higher than ever. That’s money we’re […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Income Inequality in Quesnay and Smith
This is the first video of a two-part lecture in which the Stone Center’s Branko Milanovic discusses writings on inequality by François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx and how their work can […]
National Politics
Víctor Jara Sinfónico – “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido”
Not what we usually do. In honour of the Chilean people who have come so far against all odds. Let us hope that they triumph in the presidential runoff on 19 December.
I listened to your podcast which was supposed to be a history, but Dr. Mearsheimer’s summary was in fact completely ahistorical. The professor told a tendentious story which starts from Netanyahu’s and Smotrich’s racist, genocidal regime and then explains that this was always what Zionism was and is. In fact, the government of Israel today is a corruption of Zionism. The more interesting question is how did Zionism, which is simply the movement for the national liberation of the Jewish people, the same desire shared today by the Palestinians the Kurds, and numerous other people who live under governments where their autonomy is denied, become so corrupted.
This question which needs more analysis is intertwined with Dr. Mearsheimer’s simplistic answer that US support of Israel is all because of the Israel Lobby. This is inverted logic. Israel is supported simply because it does the dirty work of the US empire. Understanding the history behind events is the only way to make sense of them. Unfortunately, this podcast served up an overly simplistic narrative which did nothing to help us gain that better understanding.