Dead Pundits Society

About Dead Pundits Society

Democratic-socialist strategy, mass and class politics.

Publisher

Adam Proctor

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Mar 2017

Latest episode

26 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

7 of 260 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Debunking Right-Wing Cowboy Cosplay: Texas's Radical Roots w/ David Griscom

   Adam sits down with David Griscom, host of The Jacobin Show and Left Reckoning, and author of The Myth of Red Texas (Nation Books, 2026), to excavate the buried radical history of the Lone Star State. They start with the present: Talarico's primary win and what class-war rhetoric is proving in Texas politics. Then they go back: the proletarianized cowboy, the fence-cutting wars against British and Northern capital, the Southern Farmers Alliance, the stolen populist election. The "California hypothesis" gets debunked. And the question by the end isn't whether Texas has a radical tradition; it's why nobody told you about it. Become a HWDI Sponsor and get access to this week's B-Side: Patreon: https://patreon.com/hwdipod Substack: https://substack.com/@hwdipod ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (https://www.patreon.com/hwdipod)

2. 

   11 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Plan or Perish: The Limits of Progressive Reform in the Age of Money Capital (ft. Steve Maher)

   Host Alex Press interviews Steve Maher, co-author of "The Fall and Rise of American Finance," exploring how financialization intensifies exploitation and why progressive reforms alone cannot address systemic issues.

3. 

   27 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Cold War Liberalism and a Left Foreign Policy (??) ft. Daniel Bessner

   Host Danny Bessner, professor of international studies, discusses Cold War liberalism's foreign policy legacy and a democratic socialist approach to global affairs.

Inside a recent episode

Debunking Right-Wing Cowboy Cosplay: Texas's Radical Roots w/ David Griscom

Published 26 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And the last thing about the California hypothesis that I think is really important for people to understand is that the Republican Party plays it very, very well because if they get to define Texan as being Republican, then even if you are somebody from california you can be a texan by being a big time trump supporter by being a big time greg abbott supporter um you know you can kind of wash away your sins the only time is a problem is if you come here and you might be voting democrat so it's just a very very i think effective tool that the right has developed over time to kind of you know move people away from the conversations about economic anxiety and also to kind of present themselves and their politics as like the truly authentic Texas politics and anything else as a kind of aberration. […]

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• Steve Maher
• Danny Bessner
• Nick French

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