Unpopular Front Podcast

Feb 27 2025 3 ep. 59 mins 31

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Talking to Political Scientist Henry Farrell with Max Read

Feb 27 2025 54 mins

This week on our untitled, unofficial, occasional podcast, Max Read of Read Max and I hosted our second guest: political scientist Henry Farrell, professor at Johns Hopkins University and writer of the tech and politics Substack Programmable Mutter, which we both follow with great interest. Farrell, with Abraham Newman, is the author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized th

Talking to Historian Quinn Slobodian with Max Read

Jan 24 2025 66 mins

This week on our untitled, occasional podcast, Max Read of Read Max and I hosted our first guest: the mighty Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University. Quinn is the author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, and the forthcoming Hayek's B******

Talking with Max Read about our Tech-Fash Overlords

Dec 20 2024 56 mins

Welcome to Unpopular Front’s second crossover podcast extravaganza with Max Read of Read Max, who provides the best coverage of technology, culture, and society anywhere today. We went all out on this one: our conversation ranges from the news of Elon Musk turning “X” into a way to manipulate Congress, theories of venture class war against the professional-managerial class, t