Hey, it's that time again. It's me, Riley, right here by myself, recording a comedy book club episode for all you

wonderful Patreon listeners out there.

And then also all you non-patri-on listeners sometime in the future or from your perspective,

the present. Yeah, that's more or less how time

works that's very fun hello it's me Riley like I said before today I'm decide well

a I'm not going to be drinking while I record this which is unusual because usually

I am however I had a trademark big night out last

night, and I've decided not to do that. Instead, I'm going to get over my hangover by talking about a book

that I liked. The book today is called For a Left Populism. It is published by Surprise Verso. Hey, if other publishers want to send me

free books, I'm more than happy to take a look at him. And it's by Chantal Mouffe, who is a French

political theorist who primarily works in England. And she said the University of Westminster.

She is, she's a big figure on the left.

I'm a big fan of her work.

She's written a lot of books.

This is sort of just her most recent.

She's written on the political hegemony and socialist strategy, sort of agonisms.

They're all very good.

I really recommend you read them if you like sort of theory, because that's what she's

talking about.

She's talking about a lot of theory stuff.

And she writes like a philosopher.

Like it feels quite a bit like, it'll, honestly, it'll feel like doing university reading.

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