Varn Vlog
Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here. Varn Vlog is the pod of C. Derick Varn. We combine the conversation on philosophy, political economy, art, history, culture, anthropology, and geopolitics from a left-wing and culturally informed perspective. We approach the world from a historical lens with an eye for hard truths and structural analysis.
Podcasting since 2021 • 387 episodes
Varn Vlog
Latest Episodes
Wall Street Went To Homeroom And Stole The Whiteboard with David I Backer
What if the real story of American education isn’t test scores or culture wars, but air you can breathe, roofs that don’t leak, and the invisible money pipes that decide who gets both? We sit down with David I. Backer, associate professor of ed...
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Episode 65
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From Catechism To Class Consciousness: How Marxism Was Taught with Edward Barring
What if the real engine of socialist history wasn’t just theory, but teaching? We sit down with historian Edward Baring to trace a vivid, often-misread story: Marxism as a mass educational project designed to turn scattered grievances into clas...
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Season 2
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Episode 64
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1:22:46
How Philosophy Lost Its Nerve And How Marx Put It Back To Work with Christoph Schuringa
A century ago, philosophy split its seams. Cambridge’s revolt against British Hegelianism promised “clarity,” Vienna’s scientific modernism tried to rebuild from scratch, and postwar America professionalized it all while quietly erasing the pol...
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Season 2
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Episode 63
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2:23:34
Post-Liberalism’s Fade with Nicolas Villarreal
Politics keeps offering us drama in place of design. We sat down with Nicholas D. Vairo to chart how the post-liberal moment slid from grand promises into a Bonapartist reality: a leader-first spectacle with no plan to build or maintain the ins...
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Season 2
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Episode 65
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1:31:23
Hellworld And The Broken Labor Map with Phil Neel
What if “reindustrialization” delivers fabs, data centers, and subsidies—but not the jobs? We sit down with Marxist geographer Phil Neel to unpack Hell World, a sweeping account of how deindustrialization, gigified services, and AI deskilling h...
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Season 2
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Episode 64
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2:22:27
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