Left Anchor

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Philosophy, politics, and the left.

Recent Episodes
  • The Kaleckian Moment in 2024 - 355 PREVIEW
    Jun 6, 2025 – 10:14
  • Elon Is Out—Or Is He? - 354
    May 30, 2025 – 01:09:40
  • Four Futures Revisited - 353 PREVIEW
    May 23, 2025 – 07:02
  • A New Left Economics? - 352
    May 17, 2025 – 01:05:40
  • Silicon Valley Brain Rot - 351 PREVIEW
    May 9, 2025 – 13:14
  • Empty Shelves Are Coming - 350
    May 3, 2025 – 59:21
  • Whiskey Pete - 349 PREVIEW
    Apr 24, 2025 – 04:57
  • Stonks - 348
    Apr 11, 2025 – 01:06:21
  • Late Star Trek - 347 PREVIEW
    Apr 3, 2025 – 21:09
  • Abundance Incoherence - 346
    Mar 27, 2025 – 58:14
  • How the Union Movement Can Rebuild - 345 EXCERPT
    Mar 22, 2025 – 30:29
  • Trump's Assault on Universities - 344
    Mar 17, 2025 – 01:02:23
  • The Power of Propaganda with Hannah Arendt - 220 UNLOCKED
    Mar 8, 2025 – 01:11:49
  • The Failure of Constitutional Theory - 343
    Feb 28, 2025 – 54:09
  • The Biggest Asshole in History PREVIEW
    Feb 20, 2025 – 10:23
  • The Tech Oligarch Consent Machine - 341
    Feb 13, 2025 – 59:41
  • The Elon Musk Coup - 340 PREVIEW
    Feb 3, 2025 – 31:54
  • Trump's First Days - 339
    Jan 25, 2025 – 01:04:02
  • Public vs. Private Virtue - 338 PREVIEW
    Jan 18, 2025 – 06:16
  • The Trump Tsunami Approacheth - 337
    Jan 9, 2025 – 01:03:57
  • The Oligarch Class - 324 UNLOCKED
    Jan 3, 2025 – 01:05:09
  • National Lampoon's Left Anchor Holiday Special - 336 PREVIEW
    Dec 24, 2024 – 08:29
  • Bidenomics Retrospective - 335
    Dec 20, 2024 – 01:05:18
  • Chaos on the March - 334 PREVIEW
    Dec 8, 2024 – 07:55
  • On the Ground in Philly - 333
    Nov 27, 2024 – 01:10:12
  • What Now? - 332 PREVIEW
    Nov 19, 2024 – 04:13
  • Welp - 331
    Nov 10, 2024 – 01:01:15
  • What's Downballot in 2024? - 330
    Oct 30, 2024 – 01:00:29
  • Lake Powell Is Doomed - 329 PREVIEW
    Oct 22, 2024 – 21:38
  • The 2024 Election Home Stretch - 328
    Oct 19, 2024 – 01:00:33
  • A Year of Butchery in Gaza - 327 PREVIEW
    Oct 8, 2024 – 06:24
  • The BS Epidemic - 326
    Sep 30, 2024 – 01:08:21
  • American Political Freaks - 325 PREVIEW
    Sep 23, 2024 – 06:04
  • The Flailing Trump Campaign - 322 UNLOCKED
    Sep 18, 2024 – 01:15:37
  • The Oligarch Class - 324 PREVIEW
    Sep 11, 2024 – 17:27
  • DNC Recap - 323
    Aug 28, 2024 – 01:12:31
  • The Flailing Trump Campaign - 322 PREVIEW
    Aug 19, 2024 – 24:38
  • Democrats in Array - 321
    Aug 9, 2024 – 59:53
  • America’s Rotting Presidential System - 320
    Aug 6, 2024 – 01:06:00
  • The Enigma Kamala Harris - 319 PREVIEW
    Jul 25, 2024 – 09:04
  • The Early 90s Were Decadent and Depraved - 318
    Jul 11, 2024 – 01:00:24
  • When the President Does It, That Means It Is Not Illegal - 317 PREVIEW
    Jul 4, 2024 – 06:30
  • Solidarity Forever - 311 UNLOCKED
    Jun 23, 2024 – 59:34
  • The Right-Wing Recruitment Pipeline II - 316 PREVIEW
    Jun 17, 2024 – 12:05
  • The Right-Wing Recruitment Pipeline - 315
    Jun 7, 2024 – 52:42
  • The Rampaging Supreme Court - 314
    May 27, 2024 – 58:17
  • How Merrick Garland Appeased Trump - UNLOCKED
    May 22, 2024 – 01:06:35
  • The Legacy of Coal - 313 UNLOCKED
    May 9, 2024 – 01:02:16
  • The Fascist Attack on Gaza Protests - 312
    Apr 28, 2024 – 55:38
  • Solidarity Forever - 311 PREVIEW
    Apr 16, 2024 – 07:12
Recent Reviews
  • midwestBlue
    mcKinley mentioned on show
    and lucky for us mcKinley was assassinated.
  • DrDK2
    Brilliant Discussion
    Your recent episode on the history and current overreach of the Supreme Court was insightful, informative and easy to understand. Thank you.
  • Amcginnissmith
    Grief
    It’s important to understand that dwelling in the suffering of others with no power to change anything will destroy your soul and make grieving impossible. You can grieve without being consumed. Grief alone is selfish. It steals pain from another and internalizes it for your own pity. That pity will lead you down a dark path where you ignore the moments of change where you actually can regain some power; to help others. Pay attention, not because you are powerful or powerless, but because you may find those moments where you can channel it into something for someone else; and that is how we should all grieve together. Because everyone is grievable.
  • fromlandsofanishnabe
    Articulate & understandable left analysis!
    Ryan & Alexi offer intelligent clarifying analyses with a minimum of jargon to discuss issues and explain why and how things get effed up (or don’t get effed up) for us average folks.
  • MKB Ca
    Always good
    Every episode seems strong. Content excellent !!! (A constructive comment: Wish their sound wasn’t quite so “hot”. They seem a bit close to the mic, or their mic’s are too hot.)
  • angrylf
    Smeary, silly junk
    The hosts seem charmingly clueless at first but they are actually pretty irresponsible - gets a bit sinister - I wouldn’t waste your time.
  • Dr Deb K
    Spotlighting Trans Moral Panic
    This podcast is great and this episode is particularly strong. Exposing the right-wing anti-trans movement and it's confusing embrace by "centrist America" is so important to begin fighting against this very hateful and dangerous trend in a unified voice. As a middle aged white ciswoman I am heartbroken and appalled by this hateful transphobia and this episode provided me so many eloquent talking points. Thank you.
  • tsiegel101
    More movie reviews!
    The discussion of Casablanca and Inside Llewyn Davis was excellent!
  • Blaviken28
    My favorite
    Such an excellent podcast with great guests, analysis, and discussions from the hosts. My go to podcasts for all things lefty that gives me hope in an otherwise bleak situation. Highly, highly recommend this underrated pod.
  • Toendandbeyondkid
    good
    👍good
  • Alienígena_
    Sincere & Knowledgable
    These two hosts—one of whom teaches and one of whom writes on current events—comment perceptively on the unsustainability of capitalism, and skillfully stress our need to overcome it.
  • ENP48230
    Two intelligent leftists
    Not presumptuous but happy to get into ideas. I support them on Patreon and am happy to report that the seem well prepared to discuss books, articles or news with their guests
  • Stafturd
    The left podcast I’ve been looking for.
    It’s not ironic, it’s not jokey. They discuss theory and policy and makes me feel more involved and engaged. Thank you.
  • Mski_2050
    Philosophy, Politics, Morals and Good Belly Laughs
    This is a fantastic, insightful pod! Ryan and Alexi are brilliant, have great senses of humor, and play off each other well, including filling in knowledge gaps between the two (and the occasional chemistry lesson from Ryan). They bring on incredible guests and are actually prepared to discuss their areas of expertise and ask important questions. Can’t recommend it highly enough, it’s a little bit of light (dare I say, optimism) in a dark world. Thanks guys!
  • mr_norell
    good heart, but...
    good politics and obviously they're both smart, thoughtful people. but, for a podcast, the content is trying to straddle snarky yet sincere with mixed results. hosts aren't really funny enough to pull off snark. and because there's snark: the sincere reads less effectively. also, one of the hosts speaks slowly and says "uhh" often, which is distracting. still giving five stars because there is potential and i would 5/5 hang out with them.
  • jacob12346669420
    great job
    good pod
  • T…...J
    👍🏼
    Really good
  • Collind1123
    Left is best
    Great guests hashing out how we bring forth a left oriented vision for a better world.
  • Josh_Legere
    One of the Best
    This really is one of the best leftist podcasts getting made these days. Very good discussions of various texts and on occasion how the theories discussed related to current events. They are both very smart.
  • wiblyo
    This, my favorie Pod
    Really enjoy the Left Anchor pod, where Coop & Alexi take us on many an intellectual journey, dropping the anchor into a new harbor every episode. Each time delving into the lives, stories, and works of influential historic thinkers, writers, orators—deep dives that help me better understand their views and historic context as well as bring to surface the rather timeless insights (or mistakes) and apply them to our current political circumstances. But it's not just a history class, the pod is peppered with interviews featuring contemporary and ever influential thinkers, writers, historians, professors, activist judges — informed voices in their respected fields all talking about pertinent topics with the hosts, who continue the theme of looking square in the eye at the constellation of facts and values surrounding the issues that matter to and define not just the Left, but our shared reality. Then it all gets drawn back into a sturdy knot tying a sense of love for humanity and a commitment to more justice in a way and at a time that recognizes socialism as a pragmatic method to get from where we are to where we're going to. The pod lives up to its name, the fighting Left throwing down while the winds of political fortune are whipping fast over the choppy seas, the Anchor below that has it's strength in being grounded.
  • Ludwig von Cheeses
    Clearly biased
    Both the podcast and my perspective on it. 3 stars for small points of agreement but overall the episode I listened to was deeply flawed. Found Cooper via a twitter thread on Yemen and tuned in to the Jonathan Haidt podcast. Was pretty surprised that the hosts managed to pass off ad hominem attacks like “faux liberal” or “pseudo intellectual” for so long before getting to any critiques of substance. And then... what a let down... I don’t think Haidt ever makes a moral claim about whether having more/less “moral foundations” is good/bad. So to take the thesis of his book as a personal attack on leftism is pretty misguided.
  • SpreadsheetFan
    Top notch
    In conversation, I often pass off things I heard on Left Anchor as my own insights. People say “That’s a really interesting point, I never thought of it that way before.”
  • I'm not very creative
    Evidence based price signal: this is a good podcast and you should listen
    Comes for the lefty analysis, stay because Ryan Cooper literally never raises his voice when shifting the tone of his rhetoric
  • Alexander Maynard
    One Sound Anchor
    These guys bring some insightful philosophical and historical lenses to the microphone in their reflections on politics—politics of current events and the principles of politics. They are two solid voices of the Left that are more than worth a listen for those solidly in their camp and those wanting to understand the perspective and concerns of the Left.
  • Chris in Seattle
    Great start
    👍
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