Reason presents a libertarian-themed debate series recorded monthly before a live audience in New York City. Moderated by former Barron's Economics Editor Gene Epstein, the Soho Forum features Nobel prize winners, radical thinkers, and other public intellectuals facing off over the future of abortion, bitcoin, electric vehicles, government debt, illegal drugs, robotics, sex work, and other controversial topics.
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Forget The Ball Podcast - from the creators of 'Only an Excuse?' The latest Scottish football chat, nostalgia and predictions... Music courtesy of Bone Idle Bros - www.boneidlebros.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The channel for the Award-Winning Maverick Theatre Company and their London Literary Pub Crawl productions and Resonance 104.4FM Radio shows. General theatre and literary news from London, England.
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Factual America examines America through the lens of documentary filmmaking. Guests include Academy Award, Emmy and Grammy-winning documentary filmmakers and producers, their subjects, as well as experts on the American experience. Find out more about the current and upcoming documentaries on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Sky Documentaries and other platforms directly from the creators. Whether we discuss true crime, music, burning social and political topics, history, or arts ...
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*The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast rare, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and tales from the underground. *Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation. *Listen live on London’s premier independent station Soho Radio or via all major podcast providers. The Bureau is collected at The British Library Sound Archive
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Soho Then is a series of photo-centric podcasts based on oral history interviews with over 20, long-term residents and workers of Soho. Commissioned by The Photographers’ Gallery, produced by Clare Lynch, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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FIVE TIME AWARD NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent Podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases. Praised as one of the best London, British, English and UK True Crime podcasts, as well as 4th Best True-Crime Podcast by This Week, iTunes Top 25 Pod ...
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A surpisingly large number of films have been set in Soho - that one square mile which has, for decades, been the beating heart of bohemian, cosmopolitan London. In each episode of Soho Bites, we talk to a special guest about a different Soho film and accompany it with a shorter, thematically linked item which may or may not be film related. Written, produced & presented by Dominic Delargy Based on an original idea by Dr Jingan Young https://twitter.com/BitesSoho https://sohobitespodcast.com ...
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Hi, I am a podcast creater for SoHo Rug Cleaning. Through my podcast I strive to provide my audience the best knowledge about Carpet Cleaning services available.
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Founded in 1968, Reason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Our podcast offerings include: The Reason Roundtable Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman—discuss and debate the week’s biggest stories and what fresh hell awaits us all. The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie Want to know what comes next in politics, cultu ...
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A fun and intelligent look at classic film releases (yes, that’s a real thing) and horror and fantasy double bills from the 1960s, 70s and 80s - and everything in-between. You get the idea.
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Tyler "Soups" Campbell hosts "Soups on Hockey". It's not just one style of show. He's looking at all angles. Sometimes it's the BS (Big Show) where he'll look at what's going on throughout the league and the sport. Sometimes it's the SOHO (Soups on Hockey Oilers). "SOH Best Bets" normally done for Saturday nights for your gambling fix. The "Short Shift" is a 15-30 min show that is normally an instant reaction to breaking news. Soups is also building a big library of retrospective shows, uniq ...
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Presented by Sky Sports' Ali Silk & the BBC and Warner Bro's James Gregg - this is golf's human side, with some very sub-human takes. Discussing the latest from the different tour's around the globe, from the sublime to the silly. We hear from some of the game's very best personalities, and some of the very best personalities who love the game - from all walks of life. Powered by Pitch Soho in the heart of London, come and join the space. Instagram: scrambledgolfers // alihampsonsilk // thej ...
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Soho House Stories presents Eat, Drink, Chat, a six-part series taking you to a new Soho House each episode where our hosts share a meal or relax over drinks with a talented guest, from artists to activists, musicians to entrepreneurs. Starting with breakfast, before moving onto coffee, lunch and cocktails, dinner and finally room service, each podcast brings something new to the table.Soho House is a community of creative thinkers. To find out more visit http://sohohouse.com
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Ambit was established in 1959 by Dr Martin Bax in London. Editors have included JG Ballard and Eduardo Paolozzi. Made infamous in 1968 for the competition for work written on drugs. Endless talent is published from William S. Burroughs to Ralph Steadman and Jenni Fagan. The show is presented by editor, author, performer, Kirsty Allison.
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House Beautiful, Town&Country and Veranda magazines partnered with three distinguished interior designers—Thom Filicia, Richard Mishaan and John Saladino—to furnish and decorate three luxury townhouses, themed to their favorite films, at Soho Mews, a new residential development of 68 dwellings designed by noted architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, and landscape architect Peter Walker, at 311 West Broadway in Manhattan's trendy Soho neighborhood.
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Soho House and award-winning radio personality Jason Bentley pair innovators and creators together to unlock the secrets of their creative DNA in new podcast, The Backstory. Echoing the ethos of Soho House, The Backstory is a place where guests – thinkers, artists and tastemakers – share ideas and make connections. Join Bentley every week to hear never-before-told stories about his guests’ personal histories, and the projects that shaped their careers. The Backstory is brought to you by Soho ...
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In each episode we talk to a different expert about one of the historical figures who appear in the Spirit of Soho mural, just off Carnaby Street.
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Get direct unbiased strong views on the financial markets from a fixed income trader and head of global interest rate trading weekly. Teaching and guiding the people in ways no news network is currently . For the best commentary from the source on what’s happening in the world of fixed income and stock markets and provide education to those who don’t know enough about it in a simple and concise manner. Every Sunday 7pm EST.
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A short-lived gag-packed topical comedy podcast from the creators behind the hit live show, Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho. Join the former Prime Minister for satirical jokes and sketches.
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Hosted by sneaker experts Kish Kash (@kishkash1) and Jason Coles (@madebyjase) ‘Soleful’ is a weekly deep dive into the world of sneakers and sneaker culture. In each episode Kish and Jason will reveal the amazing stories behind the world’s most loved sneakers and interview the people that created, collect and covet them. We’ll also be answering your questions about all things kicks so send them to us via @soleful_podcast on all socials or use the hashtag #SolefulPodcast. This is a Soho Radi ...
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This podcast is an extension of the NYC Soho Impact Mentorship Program. It features testimonies captured by Mark Araujo and Rez Nemorin from young professionals by exposing the truth behind their passions and how they have benefited from the program.
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A monthly Soho Radio show for the 20s: roaring about art, culture, books, poetry and activism. Co-presented by Salena Godden, Amah-Rose Abrams and Matt Abbott 📻
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Soho House is a group of private members’ clubs for people in the creative, arts and media industries. Good Is The New Cool is a movement for leaders in business and culture who want to use their forces for good. Together, they have collaborated on creating a series of podcasts that live at the intersection of cultural and social innovation.Hosted by Soho House members Afdhel Aziz and Bobby Jones, the Good Is The New Cool podcast series brings us an extraordinary lineup of luminaries from th ...
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The Tokyo Closet Ball members interview local artists, talk about LGBT news and celebrate the community. Featuring Tatianna Lee, Stefani St. Slut, Mx Terious, Lil Sprout, Top Tear Gender Queer, Indigo Soho, and more! https://linktr.ee/Tokyo.Closet.Ball
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Maeve Doyle's Private View features interviews with artist and individuals who are redefining the art world. Hosted by Art Critic Maeve Doyle, one of London's most active art commentators, the podcast offers endless insights and a deep dive into art news, developments and stirrings in visual culture. Maeve looks for answers in lively conversations with artists, curators, critics, art dealers, gallerists and auction house experts who offer surprising perspectives on the world through their wo ...
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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In my new series of podcasts, I speak to various creatives in music and the arts during this period of lockdown. A new episode will be released every Monday. Subscribe for all future episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Join Jason Bateman, Paula Patton, Alexander Skarsgård, and director Henry-Alex Rubin as they discuss their film, "Disconnect," an exploration of how modern technology affects and defines our relationships. Shot with eavesdropped naturalism, this riveting thriller follows strangers, neighbors, and colleagues whose stories collide as they struggle to find human connection in today’s wired world.
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Join Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire," "127 Hours") as he discusses his new thriller, "Trance." The story follows a fine art auctioneer who gets mixed up with a criminal gang and joins forces with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting.
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Join actor Matthew McConaughey and writer/director Jeff Nichols ("Take Shelter") for a discussion about their new drama, "Mud." The film is an adventure about two boys who discover a mysterious man named Mud (McConaughey) hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River.
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Join actor Thomas Haden Church ("Sideways") and filmmaker Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais as they discuss their black comedy, "Whitewash." In the film, a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter finds himself in a complicated situation when a meeting with a stranger leads to an accidental death.
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Join actor Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation") as he discusses his smart, subversive comedy about a man, his best friend, and the woman they both adore, while watching their lives fly by.
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The Earth is no good :: Evacuate Earth Now :: Ask me how! MetroHolografix.com 11 Wardour Street, Soho, London 33 Abbeygate Street, Galway
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After getting his musical start on the banjo, guitarist-songwriter Kurt Vile now creates songs that range from gorgeous fingerpicking to ecstatic rock. His latest release, "Wakin on a Pretty Daze," blends the two extremes into a dreamy, expansive, and timeless sound. Join us for this moderated discussion with Kurt as he talks about the new album and answers questions from the audience.
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Join filmmaker Lance Edmands, producer Kyle Martin, and actors Amy Morton ("Up in the Air"), Louisa Krause ("Martha Marcy May Marlene"), and Emily Meade ("Sleepwalk with Me") as they discuss their rural drama, "Bluebird." In the film, one woman’s tragic mistake shatters the community of a Maine logging town.
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A Podcast about everything to do with Voice Over. Presented by Joseph Bader, each week he will be joined by guests from the industry, to discuss working as a full time Voice Over Artist.
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Distraction Pieces with Scroobius Pip is one of the UK's biggest and longest running independent podcasts. Previous guests include Michael Fassbender, Mary J Blige, Stephen Graham, Florence Pugh, Spike Lee, Lena Headey, Stewart Lee, Kathy Burke, Dizzee Rascal, Aisling Bea, Kano, Adam Buxton, Vicky McClure, Peter Capaldi, Michaela Coel, Louis Theroux, Tim Key and many more. Available on acast, iTunes and all podplaces. Download, subscribe, rate & review now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri ...
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The Table Hockey Show is an online radio show (podcast) with a multimedia mission to educate, preserve, develop and promote table hockey worldwide! - One Person, One Community, One Nation at a time.
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Join filmmaker Alastair Siddons, producer Emile Abinal, and artists JR and Romel as they discuss the film "Inside Out." The documentary tracks the powerful evolution of Inside Out, the world’s largest participatory art project that uses giant portraits to motivate communities to define their most important causes.
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Pilot podcast about books and more (or less) - arts, culture, society, recorded in London's Soho, hosted by Elena Lappin, with guests Diana Athill, Lennie Goodings, Louisa Young. Just a relaxed conversation while we enjoy some drinks...
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Kinvara Balfour in conversation with some of the biggest names in fashion. Hosted at the Apple Store, Regent Street in London and the Apple Store, SoHo in New York City.
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Join pianist Simone Dinnerstein and singer-songwriter Tift Merritt as they discuss their unique collaboration on the album, "Night." The new work unites folk, rock, and classical worlds, exploring common terrain and uncovering new musical landscapes.
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Join director Lenny Abrahamson ("Adam & Paul," "Garage") and actor Jack Reynor as they talk about their new film, "What Richard Did." The film follows gifted student Richard Karlsen (Reynor), whose final summer before university is thrown into chaos by an accidental killing.
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Join Icelandic composer and performer Ólafur Arnalds as he talks about his latest release, "For Now I Am Winter." Expanding on his previous work, the new album features a full orchestra and—for the first time—introduces vocals to his sound scape.
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Join filmmaker Danny Mulheron ("Rage," "Meet the Feebles" screenwriter) and actor Kate Elliott for a discussion about their outrageous comedy "Fresh Meat." The film follows a gang of criminals who take a M?ori family hostage, only to discover that their “victims” might actually be cannibals.
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Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)
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Paula Bomer is the author of The Stalker (Soho Books, 2025), which received a starred Publisher’s Weekly, calling it “dark and twisted fun”. She is also the author of Tante Eva and Nine Months, the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and other Stories, and the essay collection, Mystery and Mortality. Her work has appeared in Bomb Magazine, …
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Is Oregon Proof That Drug Decriminalization Will Fail?
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Drug policy scholar Kevin Sabet and Reason's Zach Weissmueller debate the resolution, "The failure of Oregon's experiment in decriminalizing all drugs is compelling evidence that other attempts at complete decriminalization will fail just as badly." Arguing for the affirmative is Sabet, the director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of…
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There’s More Than One Way To Get Sober
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The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world a more libertarian—or at least more interesting—place by championing free minds and free markets.Today's guest is Katie Herzog, co-host of the popular Blocked & Reported podcast and author of the para…
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How long will Martin O'Neill be at Celtic - is there room for sentimentality? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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When the filmmaker David Lynch died earlier this year, fans created shrines filled with coffee, doughnuts, cigarettes and blue roses; a level of spontaneous mourning more common for dead rock stars or royalty than filmmakers. His auctioned belongings sold for staggering sums, almost as if they were treated as relics, showing how many people felt de…
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The Poster That Sparked a Citywide Outrage
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00:00:00 – Intro to the Poster War 00:01:08 – Synopsis 00:03:40 – Posters for the Forgotten Hostages 00:09:34 – The Inevitable Backlash 00:18:02 – Roots in Social Media and the Education System 00:29:58 – The BDS Movement 00:34:29 – Is Anger Rooted in Antisemitism 00:38:46 – America's Culture of Violence on the Rise 00:51:00 – The Line Between Anit…
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Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)
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In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential as that which ended the Tudor dynasty and launched the Stuart in March 1603. At her death, Elizabeth I had reigned for 44 turbulent years, facing many threats, whether external from Spain or internal from her cousin Ma…
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Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025)
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Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is more complex. The Bailiff’s Wife (Cuidono Press, 2025) builds on a historical event recorded in a seventeenth-century English broadsheet to create a picture of a society in flux, the result of far-rea…
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Thomas Kador, "Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education" (UCL Press, 2025)
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In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the most important approaches to material culture and object analysis in plain and easily understandable language that is equally accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as lecturers. …
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Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
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Meg Groff's memoir Not If I Can Help It (Rivertown Books, 2025) recounts some of the most harrowing, infuriating, yet inspiring stories from Groff’s work as a Legal Aid attorney representing women and children whose only resource is the sheer courage they exhibit every day. Groff dedicated forty years of her life to fighting for justice for victims…
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Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" (Universal Publishers, 2025)
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The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan (Universal Publishers, 2025) is the first comprehensive biography on Jordan’s King Abdullah. Drawing on interviews with over 100 individuals, including Abdullah's classmates, former Jordanian ministers, and CIA directors, The Most American King offers a thorough account of this key Arab leader. Aaron Magid…
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Sophie Bishop, "Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture" (U California Press, 2025)
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How are influencers changing the arts? In Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture (U California Press, 2025) Sophie Bishop, an Associate Professor in the University of Leeds’ School of Media and Communication analyses the lives of artists and influencers to understand the working and living con…
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Józef Tischner, "The Philosophy of Drama" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
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The Philosophy of Drama (U Notre Dame Press, 2024), by the Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner (translated by Artur Rosman, University of Notre Dame Press, 2024), explores human existence as dramatic existence—shaped by encounter, dialogue, temptation, and the hope for justification or salvation. In this conversation, Rosman reflects on the challen…
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Lisa Vanhala, "Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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A searing account of how the international community is trying—and failing—to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens borne by rich and poor countries. Climate change is increasingly accepted as a global emergency creating irrevocable losses for the planet. Yet, each country experiences these losses differently, and…
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Michal Govrin et. al, "But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah" (de Gruyter, 2025)
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But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah (de Gruyter, 2025) proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute led by Michal Govrin. The group positions the extraordinary Jewish and non-Jew…
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Edgar Wright: the man behind The Running Man returns! (The Running Man / Baby Driver / Scott Pilgrim) #644
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This week Pip is joined once more by the phenomenal director and true film lover EDGAR WRIGHT! Edgar is what we call a friend of the podcast. He can come and sleep on the couch at a moment's notice, we'll help him move house, drive him to the airport, whatever he wants.…
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In the penultimate episode of season 2 of Soundscapes NYC, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares sit down with acclaimed historian Alice Echols, author of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. Echols—who holds the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California—unpacks how disco not on…
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It wasn't pretty, but the Oilers managed to pull it out Monday night vs the Blue Jackets after a nightmare performance on Saturday vs the Avalanche.
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Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025)
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In Happy New Years (New Vessel Press, 2025), after finishing her teaching degree, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades. She keeps up with her old classmates in an annual new year’s letter that outlines mostly her triumphs, with brief allusions to her losses, her failur…
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Phillips Payson O'Brien, "War and Power: Who Wins Wars--And Why" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of economic, political, and social power. For nearly two centuries, international relations have been premised on the idea of the "Great Powers." As the thinking went, these mighty states--the Europ…
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Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)
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There was a time when women's health was marginalized. There was a time when breast cancer wasn't discussed. There was a time when October wasn't pink. But three women--Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, and Evelyn Lauder--refused to be silenced. Their courage ignited a movement that forever changed the way society addresses breast cancer. When th…
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Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which…
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Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
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It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought (Amsterdam UP, 2025), Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubling turn. He shows that many traditional ideas about Europe are cultural…
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Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of educational achievement in America. In attempting to address this divide, many school reformers have championed school choice: solutions like charter schools, vouchers, and other innovations designed to bu…
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Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)
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For three years following the Russian Revolution, the small South Caucasian country of Georgia was a democracy, but Stalin later ordered the Red Army to invade and to bring the country back under Russian rule. Communist attacks on political opponents, trade unions, cooperatives, and even the church sparked resistance, and an armed uprising broke ou…
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Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)
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With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing continuously for ten hours or more, changing the unique songs they sing every year. In Why Whales Sing (JHU Press, 2025), bioacoustician and cognitive scientist Eduardo Mercado transforms our understanding…
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Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
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Silicon Valley wants to disrupt finance, and it might just succeed. In FinTech Dystopia, professor Hilary Allen offers an accessible, irreverent, and occasionally furious account of how tech elites are quietly taking over the financial system and making it worse in the process. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of conversations…
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Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025)
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In this NBN episode, Hollay Ghadery speaks with Robert de la Chevrotiere about his novel, Tall is Her Body (Kensington, 2025). Readers of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man’s journey to wholeness—both emotionally and physically—is shape…
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Did Democrats Blow It on the Government Shutdown?
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This week, Reason editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by the editor in chief of The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas, to discuss the end of the government shutdown and what Democrats actually gained from it. They examine the renewed focus on Obamacare subsidies and how both parties are struggling to articulate a cohere…
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Have you ever felt that you keep making the same mistakes or that you have fallen into a pattern that could be Exhibit A as proof of reincarnation? The Beast (2023) uses all kinds of world-building and three different timelines to explore these ideas–and does so while faithfully adapting a 1903 story by Henry James. It’s the kind of film in which o…
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Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But is that the right way to think about the subject matter of metaphysics? According to Amie Thomasson, very clearly no. In her new book, Rethinking Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Thomasson argues t…
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Concetta Principe, "Disorder" (Gordon Hill Press, 2024)
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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Concetta Principe about her poetry collection, DIsorder (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). Disorder, the newest collection of poetry from Concetta Principe, explores the metaphorical relationship between the home and the mind, where a home should be place of sanctuary but can have its safe borders destab…
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Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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In Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (University of Mass. Press, 2024), Dr. Jason Higgins examines the connections between the military and carceral system through the stories of those most knowledgeable about it: veterans who were incarcerated after their military service. Combining a thorough historical narrative with…
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Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
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When the African Union was founded in 2002, it promised to deliver a more united, prosperous, and people-centred continent. Two decades later, Africa’s political landscape tells a more complex story: one of ambition and frustration, democratic progress and reversal, renewed activism, and enduring inequality. How far has the AU come in shaping “The …
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Ellen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)
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How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowledge—not of the world and its myriad processes but about something more intimate, namely the individuals they encountered in close quarters, those the…
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Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be overcome-for the sake of a common national interest. This book shows that this is not the case. Examining votes in the US Congress and several European parliaments, the book demonstrates that contesta…
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How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Colleen Dunlavy, Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about her recent book, Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. Into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. Small, Medium, Large examines the crucial role that the U.S. federal government played in rationalizing and diffus…
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In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?
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It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s new series Pluribus. The show posits an extraordinary intervention in worldwide politics and culture producing a utopia (that is of course simultaneously a dystopia) of quiescent bliss. Is the show shaping up to be another hit for the showrunner, previously r…
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Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peace Prize, and honorary degrees from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and more than fifty other universities, and elected not only to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Lett…
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Philip, Johnnie and Chick chat over zealous referees, Easter Road Cocaine Scandal and Scotland's Strip.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jorge Coronado, “Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
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In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Jorge Coronado, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, examines photography to further the argument that intellectuals grafted their own notions of indigeneity onto their subjects. He looks specifically at the Cuzco School o…
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Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—who in response to industrialization experimented with radical social reform in the antebellum United States. Foremost amon…
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Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West Germany and the UK, while also suffering myriad unintended consequences of this centrally planned practice: manure…
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Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
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As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital divide. In Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity (MIT Press, 2021), Dr. Christopher Ali analyzes the promise and the failure of nationa…
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Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
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Today I talked to Alfred S. Posamentier, a co-author (with Christian Spreitzer) of Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians (Prometheus, 2020). This charming book is more than just mathematics, because mathematicians are not just makers of mathematics. They are human beings whose life stories are often not just entertaining, but…
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Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh. She explores the way these relations are changing due to climate ch…
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Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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In her scintillating new book, The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals (Oxford UP, 2021), Nerina Rustomji presents a fascinating and multilayered intellectual and cultural history of the category of the “Houri” and the multiple ideological projects in which it has been inserted over time and space. Nimbly moving between a vast ra…
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relationship to enslavement in his first nonfiction book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021). From Monticello plantation to Angola …
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COMING SOON: Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath by Murder Mile & True Crime Enthusiast
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In a ten part crossover series, Mike of Murder Mile and Paul from The True Crime Enthusiast join forces to bring you the full story; from MacKay’s disturbed childhood, his crime spree, his methods and his motives, as well as the three murders he was convicted of and the eight additional killings he was suspected of, and confessed to. Having previou…
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Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
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Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one. This is the central tenet underlying The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Utah State University Press 2019) by Andrea Kitta, Associate Professor in the English department at East Carolina University, examines the discourses and metaphors of contagion and contamination in ve…
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