Rocinante

While the American empire blows its brains out against the wailing wall, Angela is joined by Peter Ryan to discuss his article "Economics of Empire". Empire brutally subjugates the periphery but it deploys more nuanced tactics to exploit the core. Beset on all sides by rightoid slaves, leftoid hustlers, and vile third positionist demons dancing to the tune the imperial elites have selected, can we build a durable anti-imperialism ...

Recorded on Day 14 of the Zionist War of Aggression Against the Iranian People, Angela and Sean discuss the immediate and short term consequences of the war, the Spanish clothing themselves in glory, and delay any discussion of Doing Something About All Of This until we fall back to a secure location in Barcelona.

Read Sean's substack post "Towards a New U.S. Antiwar Movement" here: https://seanpmccarthy.substack.com/p/towards-a-ne...

Sean and Angela are joined by friend of the pod Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the favored odds on the current superposition of the war with Iran. Will Neocon Don's pressing need to rerun the battle of Thermopylae be stymied by a fleet of ancient bombers and cutting edge warships overflowing with raw sewage, or will the empire 'fuck it we ball' into World War IV/the grave?

Check out The Rise and Fall of Nuremberg Christianity by Malcom ...

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On this week's episode of Rocinante, Angela is joined by László Molnárfi. Has the left abandoned its working-class roots by embracing a liberal cultural politics of moralism and identity, thereby making itself irrelevant and pushing people toward right-wing populism? How can a revitalized socialist movement reclaim popular appeal by focusing on material issues like housing and wages, while constructively engaging with questions of ...

We're back from the Christmas break with a three hour discussion of Julian Jackson's biography of Charles De Gaulle.

https://www.powells.com/book/de-gaulle-9781913368784

We hope you enjoyed your holiday festivities because we're going on a strict diet of andouillette and unfiltered cigarettes in 2026.

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Sean and Angela dive into the provocative 1998 book The Fix. Shifting the budget to focus heavily on treatment over law enforcement dramatically reduced the heroin crisis and crime rates. Why did this successful, evidence-based strategy disappear, leading to our current exponential crisis? 

Find The Fix here:

https://www.powells.com/book/fix-9780520223356

Thanks to Jackson Duke for tracking down the 48 Hours documentary Heroin Conn...

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Angela and Sean discuss the central role of Great Britain in of the horrors of the past and the present through two books:

Roger Casement's "The Crime Against Europe" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14728

John Newsinger's "The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire" https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22826312867

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Angela is joined by Toby Shandy to discuss Don Quixote Part 1, the first half of the first modern novel. The invention of the comedic duo and the unreliable narrator reach into the present from the 1600s to teach us the importance of the highest virtue: never allowing anything or anyone to make you less insane.

You can find Toby on Substack: https://tobyshandy.substack.com/

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Surveying the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing at Utah Valley University this month, Angela and Sean discuss making sense of political killings without coherent politics, guarding your humanity when every app on your phone is Liveleak, right wing Wokeismo, the Tel Aviv connection, and pitch a potentially lucrative X-Files reboot.

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While Sean is abroad continuing his study of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Angela is joined by Peter Ryan to discuss “Money by Vile Means”, his piece in Compact published today (07/25/2025).  

Read Money by Vile Means here: https://www.compactmag.com/article/money-by-vile-means/

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