Ebruenig Podcasts

Matt's dad joins the podcast via the telephone to discuss HBO's six-hour documentary on Q and in the process discusses his 45 years of working in a distribution warehouse.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Matt went onto the Solidarity Policy Center's podcast to debate Oren Cass on the question of providing cash child benefits to all kids (including the very poor!). I'm cross-posting the whole thing here in case you are a big enough sicko to do 103 minutes of this.Please subscribe to patreon.com/thebruenigs to get all our episodes.…

The gang is back with an old-style potpourri episode. If you want every episode, and as soon as it is released, please subscribe --> https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang is back with a new year's special.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang is back with special guest Matt Christman to reminisce over the top 5 takes of the Trump era, including Eric Garland, Louise Mensch, Ian Millhiser, and the intelligence agency plot to set off fireworks in New York City.Subscribe for all the episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

This is the audio from a debate hosted by Philly DSA about the JG. Matt argues against the JG. Mark Paul argues for.There is a video of the recorded zoom call here, though I thought some might prefer to have it in audio podcast form as well. Apologies for audio quality which obviously is not as good as usual due to the format.https://www.youtube.co…

The gang sit down with sportsradio 1310 the ticket's own gordon keith for a sprawling conversation about whatever.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang is back.The first half of the episode is an update on Trump happenings: the debates; the covid; etc.In a very special second half, we debut content from a possible new podcast called Brue Crime. Brue Crime would be The Bruenigs discussing true crime, which Liz and Matt both love but for very different reasons. The true crime discussed in t…

Matt brings on three smart guests to talk about the Job Guarantee proposal and political developments, both in Australia and more generally. The conversation covers things like Bill Mitchell (top JG advocate in Australia), Noel Pearson (Mitchell's newest ally, one of the most prominent anti-welfare advocates in the country), Work for the Dole, Jobs…

The gang talks about their life in DC on their last evening in the city before they move.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

By request, we have opened this one up.Liz considers what vampires are, why they're aristocrats, why they're not bourgeois, why they're sometimes proletarian, and offers recommendations for good vampire movies.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

As I was preparing to go to bed last night, Liz revealed to me that she had no idea who Cobra Tate was. I had to pull out the microphones to explain. Enjoy.To get all of our episodes and to get them when they are released, subscribe atPATREON - https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsSUPERCAST - https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/…

The gang is back with an episode teeing off on the life work of the ghoulish Ron Haskins who retired this week from the Brookings Institution. Haskins spent his whole career in politics making life hard on the poor while pretending he cared. We go over what this all means for our politics and discourse and cultural notions of poverty.…

The gang is back. The ep starts with some talk of our wedding anniversary and then we move on to riffing on various internet insanities, including an incredible update in the WaPo blackface saga.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Liz here with a solo episode finally on the Bubonic Plague and what it meant for the world.SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsSUBSCRIBE ON SUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Matt and Liz on It's Just Banter by Elizabeth and Matt BruenigBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

To listen to our premium episodes and get our regular episodes as soon as they are released, subscribe!SUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

SUBSCRIBE TO GET ALL EPISODESSUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsMatt is here with a special midweek bonus episode, talking to returning guest Marshall Steinbaum about the advanced tax rebate in the Coronavirus emergency legislation and the interesting ways in which that rebate was handled in th…

SUBSCRIBE ON SUPERCAST: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigsThe gang is back. The first 30 minutes are spent discussing the bailout, mostly just explaining what it is and taking on some common questions and misconceptions. The rest of the episode is answering listener queries of all sorts.…

Easily subscribe to our premium feed for $5/mo on Supercast: https://thebruenigs.supercast.tech/The gang is back with a sprawling episode about the Coronavirus crisis and the social transformation it has currently caused and will possibly cause well into the future.Subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs…

The full gang is back (liz and matt) with some fresh content. The first half is Matt melting down over fact checking about Joe Biden's Social Security record. The second half is a discussion of the Warren saga, mostly led by Liz (as Matt discussed his take earlier).By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang talks about the new star war movie. Matt has not seen it.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang is back to celebrate Liz's 30 For 30 success and discussion hot topics like emotional labor, the Democratic primary, and Finnish labor developments.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Matt Stoller, author of the book Goliath, hater of monopolies, sits in for the entire hour to talk about his new book with Matt Bruenig.The first 20 minutes are so is a summary of the book provided by Stoller, the rest is a back and forth about whether this anti-monopoly stuff is really that important.…

The gang discuss Glenn Kessler's recent M4A shenanigans, the American Affairs wacky family benefit scheme, and the WSJ alarmed about gender imbalance among college educated.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Tomi Lahren's audience doesn't like Chrisitan writersBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang talks about 9/11 and whether they and everyone else has forgotten, Biden's continued sundowning at the recent Democratic debate, and give a long-awaited update on Undercover Billionaire.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang is back with an incredible amount of content.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang is back after a one-week parental leave (go with it). They talk about Liz's breakout piece In God's Country, which is about evangelical feelings on Trump after seeing him in office for a few years. They also talk about the new show Undercover Billionaire in which a billionaire proves that he can create a million-dollar business in the depr…

The gang is back, this time with a discussion of the birth of their second child, which thankfully coincided with copious amount of CNN viewing in the hospital, keeping the gang up to date on the latest and greatest in American politics, which is also discussed, including Bidencare and Symone Sanders's CNN meltdown.…

The gang is back. They talk about:1. The Last Czars on Netflix2. The Democratic Establishment's new war against the AOC quartet and Saikat Chakrabarti in particular3. The last half of the episode is an interview with Ryan Grim about his new book "We've Got People" available here: https://strongarmpress.com/catalog/weve-got-people/…

Matt is here with a solo episode where he tackles a philosophical tension that runs through much socialist thinking and posting: how can socialism be both individually liberating while also relying on collective control and ownership?This winding (don't call it rambling) episode covers many topics including Distributism, Jeffersonians, Rawls's prop…

Does the Earned Income Tax Credit suck. Or is it actually good? And if it does suck, precisely why does it suck? These are the questions the expert panel get into.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Special Guest Donté Stallworth by Elizabeth and Matt BruenigBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The Bruenigs Interview the Gravel Teens by Elizabeth and Matt BruenigBy Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

So many questions, including why Matt was kicked off his college debate team market socialism v. planning, dealing with isolation, relationship conflict, and so on and so on.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The gang talk about Lil Nas X's unjust ejection from the country charts, the hilarious Mueller report, and Pete's gayness.Articles referencedhttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-gay-diversity-white-male-candidate.htmlhttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844/…

The gang is back.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The wacky twosome answer your relationship-related questions in this valentine's special. They also talk hot topics, including Ilhan Omar, and close with a flourish about the late great Lyndon LaRouche (may he RIP).By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Matt is here with a solo ep (dual ep releasing soon) about one of his great wonk irritations: policies that seem to have a big impact only because they take advantage of quirks in the way we measure certain things like poverty and wealth inequality. These policies achieve great "success" defined as getting a certain statistic to move a lot but actu…

The dynamic duo discuss the interesting philosophical and policy questions that flow from the fact that some people (disproportionately women) prefer to be stay-at-home parents. Is this a preference that should be respected and with benefit systems built around it or is it a preference that should be discarded as patriarchal? If you do build a bene…

The gang (mostly Matt, apologies in advance) talk about Elizabeth Warren's book The Two-Income Trap. As with most things, the book errs in not recognizing the superiority of the welfare state in solving the problems identified.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

The crew commemorate the anniversary of Josh TPM's porn tweet, talk about liberal paranoia ramping up around the election, and Sawhill's modest proposal to reduce poverty by giving poor woman IUDs, which the NYT gave new life this month.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

In this rare solo episode, Matt outlines his whole vision of what's the chief problem with capitalism and how best to tackle it. He starts with a discussion of capital's share and wealth ownership and then turns towards his neo-Hilferdingist vision of exploiting finance capital to socialize the means of production.It's truly wonderful listening.…

Liz and Matt are joined by Antti and Joona of Parecon Finland.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig

Liz and Matt have a wide-ranging discussion with citizen advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. We ask him about his views on recent trends in the Democratic party and play a game: Nader 2000 Platform Item or Fresh New Democratic Idea.Nader has a new humor book out called How The Rats Reformed Congress here: https://ratsreformcongr…

The crew sits down with Tom Frank (Listen Liberal, What's the Matter with Kansas?) and have a sprawling conversation primarily about fascism, the subject of Frank's next book.Apologies for the slight audio issues on this one. They are fixed going forward.Subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/thebruenigs…

The gang discuss Matt's cancellation over his blog post about student debt forgiveness in the first half of the episode.Will Butler of Arcade Fire comes on in the second half of the program to discuss the suburban gothic, Betomania including The Beto Tweet, and his experiences with Canada Medicare system and welfare state.…

In their thanksgiving special, Liz and Matt eschew hot topics in favor of a full episode on the pitfalls of consumer markets. The jumping off point for the discussion is the recent writing about the Decline of Sex, but your wacky hosts think these articles miss the fact that the Decline of Sex is not a sui generis phenomenon, but is instead an outg…

The wacky crew is at it again. Come for the theme song. Stay for the top notch discussion of politics and culture.By Elizabeth and Matt Bruenig