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Give Them An Argument

Give Them An Argument

Written 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
  • Talking MAGA’s Intellectuals with Laura Field and Matt McManus

    Talking MAGA’s Intellectuals with Laura Field and Matt McManus
    Jan 16 2026

    Ben Burgis and Matt McManus chat with Laura K. Field about her excellent new book "Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right."

    Order the book::

    https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255262/furious-minds

    Follow Laura on Twitter: @lkatfield

    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 occasional patron-exclusive content to access to the GTAA Discord 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 36 mins
  • Curtis Yarvin Stops Being Coy About Fascism

    Curtis Yarvin Stops Being Coy About Fascism
    Jan 14 2026

    Deep State Kuba and New York Cynthia join Ben Burgis to talk about Curtis Yarvin's demented new essay "The Situation and the Solution."

    Follow Kuba on Twitter: @DrKuba2

    Follow Cynthia on Twitter; @c_cook1988

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from occasional patron-exclusive content to access to the GTAA Discord to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substac
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    2 hrs and 26 mins
  • Why Everyone Should Read Vivek Chibber

    Why Everyone Should Read Vivek Chibber
    Dec 22 2025

    Marxist Twitter has been fighting about Vivek Chibber lately. Ben Burgis takes the opportunity to address the immediate controversy but also the much broader value of Chibber's work.

    Read the Jacobin Chibber interview on the origins of capitalism that everyone is freaking out about:

    https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy

    Read Ben's essay "Taking the Red Pill: William Clare Roberts vs. Vivek Chibber on the Class Matrix":

    https://benburgis.substack.com/p/taking-the-red-pill-william-clare

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from occasional patron-exclusive content to access to the GTAA Discord 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
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