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Give Them An Argument

Give Them An Argument

By: Ben Burgis
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Give Them An Argument is a YouTube show and podcast dedicated to building a smarter, funnier and more strategic Left. New episodes are live on YouTube on Monday nights with an exclusive postgame for GTAA patrons after the main show. (To become a patron, go to patreon.com/benburgis and sign up for the monthly cost of a milkshake at a 50s nostalgia diner in 1994.) Past guests have included Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, David Pizarro, Gregory Sadler, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Bhaskar Sunkara, Sam Seder, Ana Kasparian, Emma Vigeland, Matt Christman, and Amber Frost. The show has also featured debates between host Ben Burgis and opponents ranging from Walter Block to Charlie Kirk.Ben is a philosophy professor, Jacobin columnist, and frequent debater. He did a regular "Debunk" segment on the Michael Brooks Show until 2020. He's appeared on the Debate Night with Charlie Kirk, System Update with Glenn Greenwald, Rising, Krystal, Kyle & Friends, the Majority Report w/Sam Seder & the Joe Rogan Experience.benburgis.compatreon.com/benburgis

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Episodes
  • Season 7 Episode 13: Eric Blanc on the Way Forward for Labor
    May 9 2025

    Eric Blanc joins Ben Burgis to talk about his new book "How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big." Then in the postgame for patrons, Ben and the crew will watch a bit of Ethan Klein vs. Hassan Piker for some reason.

    Buy Eric's book:

    https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/paper

    Read Eric's Substack:

    https://www.laborpolitics.com/

    Follow Eric on Twitter: @_ericblanc

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substack.com

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Season 7 Episode 12: Congressman Ro Khanna Gives Us An Argument
    May 2 2025

    Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) comes on to talk about the swirling chaos of Trump 2.0 and where Dems are falling short in response. Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument about why the Left should trumpet the fact that social democratic policies are objectively pro-natalist. Pressuring people to have kids is obviously illiberal and bad, but we should take the W on the fact that the economic policies we want would make things a lot easier for people who want to make that choice (and the fact that this would be good for our society). Musician and commentator José Ayerve joins us in the postgame for patrons..

    Follow Ro Khanna on Twitter: @RepRoKhanna

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substack.com

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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Season 7 Episode 11: Talking Hegel w/Borna Radnik & Matt McManus
    Apr 25 2025

    First-time GTAA guest Borna Radnik and frequent GTAA guest Matt McManus join Ben Burgis to chat about Borna's book "Freedom, in Context:Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel." Before that, in lieu of an Opening Argument and for the first time on YouTube, we'll play a talk Ben gave a while back called "Karl Marx Deserves Better Critics."

    ...and, last but not least, Jason Myles hangs out in the postgame for patrons!

    Check out Borna's book:

    https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Context-History-Necessity-Hegel/dp/1350430048

    Follow Borna on Twitter: @BornaRadnik

    Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substack.com

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    2 hrs and 9 mins
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I highly recommend it. Mr. Burgis does a wonderful job enlightening listeners to the myriad of topics on the benefits of Socialism.

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