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Hello cruel world, I am Sam D. and this is The analytics Podcast. On this podcast I break down everything from music, to movies, to comics, anime, cartoons, basically whatever I feel like talking about every week, that's what I'm going to talk about.
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Hey It's Sam!! Here on my Podcast I chat with friends and talk about anything and everything!! I'm 15 and I have a YouTube channel and I can't wait for you guys to listen to my very first Podcast show :D
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Pest Control

Pest Control Pod

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Pest Control is an actual-play horror tabletop show from AltHaven. Join Keeper Sam R, and players William, Jonas, and Sam D as they get lost in fantastical worlds featuring compelling characters, engaging story, and thrilling twists!
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HumpDayRadio » Talk Radio

Johnny D, S.A.M Fortune, Bobo

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We discuss hot topics and current issue in a barbershop style format. Conversations are real, uncensored and get heated. All three of us are graduates in Broadcast Digital Media from The Carolina School of Broadcasting.
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🎙️ In The Clouds: The First d/acc Podcast Exploring the intersection of technology, human agency, and our collective future through the lens of defensive accelerationism (d/acc). Join Hunter and Sam as we dive deep into emerging technologies, digital sovereignty, and how we can preserve human agency while embracing technological progress. 🔍 We cover: - AI and superintelligence - Digital sovereignty - Brain-computer interfaces - Cryptography and privacy - Decentralized systems - Cybernetics a ...
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Good Bad Billionaire

BBC World Service

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How did the richest people on the planet make their billions? Find out with the Good Bad Billionaire podcast - now with a chance for you to have your say. Make up your minds whether you think they are good, bad or just another billionaire. Latest episodes: Luciano Benetton and Elon Musk. In each episode of Good Bad Billionaire, BBC Business Editor Simon Jack and journalist and author Zing Tsjeng analyse the lives of the super-rich, and try to understand what motivates billionaires like Kim K ...
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In a brand-new work that is 90% fiction and 10% delusion, listen as Joe, an optimistic Los Angeles transplant and personal assistant to the 14th sexiest man alive, provides you with thrilling insights into the world of the Hollywood elite, including things that Oprah has thrown out, gas station celebrity look-alike sightings, and secret studio donut-choosing hierarchies.
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Elves, Rings & Nerdy Things

Sean Briggs & Sam Marvin

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Hosted by Sam Marvin and Sean Briggs, this podcast covers the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, adaptations of Tolkien's works, and all things nerdy. When not talking about Tolkien, we talk about D&D, Renaissance Faires, cartoons, video games, and more! We started with the following mission: Tolkien's Legendarium and all works within the genre should be accessible by everyone. We approach the material from the seats of an average fan.
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Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives ...
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Easy Wonder

Sam & Dave

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We rediscover magic...in everything and everyone we come across. Pop Up Guerrilla Podcast by bike. "Learning to listening to your habitat is the first step in understanding the magic of your sonic footprint." Dr. D. Bodies
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Escapists Anonymous

Escapists Anonymous

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The Fantasy Fiction Book Club and peer support network for fantasy literature fanatics. Two friends, Sam and Dan, explore the epic worlds of fantasy fiction literature as they select books to deep-dive into. Read along with us and join in the conversation on our social media @escapistsanonymouspod. Episodes will include spoilers, so make sure you've read the sections that we're covering. If you're a fan of Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, Peter V. Brett, Brent Weeks, Terry Pratchett, Tolke ...
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Disniversity Podcast

Disniversity Podcast

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The podcast crash course through the history of Disney's animated classics, by film journalist Ben Travis and animation academic Dr Sam Summers. Each week, we’ll be moving forward in time through the legendary Walt Disney Animation Studios catalogue, watching every feature film in chronological order – from Snow White to Wish. Watch along with us, and listen as we explore each film’s historical context, advances in animation and lasting legacy, and talk about how they stand up today. Note: T ...
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Outroll

Max Potter

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This is a quick, fun and funny Dungeons and Dragons (D&D 5e) podcast with a relatively experienced DM (Max) leading two new players Fargrim (Dave) and Eomine (Sam) through a homebrew world!
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The Low D Podcast

LaDarius Daniels

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Welcome to The Low D Podcast! We talk about everything music! We interview musicians and go into depth about there career. We review new and old music and keep you up to date on what’s going on in the music world. If you looking for a good music podcast this is the podcast for you! Remember To Stay Saxy! For exclusive episodes, subscribe using the link below! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lowd/subscribe
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On each episode we interview recovering addicts and learn their story with addiction. Through exploring personal journeys we get a glimpse of the depths addicts fall to, and their path in recovery.
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Davey Mac's Tales From The Satellite

Davey Mac's Tales From The Satellite

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Radio and media superstar "East Side" Dave McDonald (of WRAT 95.9 FM and the 'Davey Mac Sports Program') reflects on his nearly ten-year, legendary career at SiriusXM Satellite Radio (from 2005 to 2014) working for iconic shows such as 'The Ron & Fez Show,' 'The Opie & Anthony Show,' 'Special Delivery Starring Sam & Dave,' 'The Davey Mac Sports Program XL,' and more. With co-host Robert Tamburro asking the questions, Dave will look back and give fun (and terrifying) behind-the-scenes stories ...
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The How’d You Like That Movie Podcast is a dynamic and opinionated dive into the world of film. It features candid and often humorous discussions about movies, ranging from blockbusters to indie gems. The hosts explore filmmaking elements like direction, performances, writing, and cultural impact, often offering sharp critiques and unique perspectives. It’s the perfect listen for movie buffs who enjoy a mix of insightful analysis and unfiltered hot takes.
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Twitter - @CascadeHoopTalk and Facebook - Cascade Hoops Talk - Your best single source for NAIA basketball talk and analysis. Focusing on the National NAIA picture. This show provides NAIA basketball talk & analysis of the National NAIA MBB picture, as well as interviews with coaches and players Cover Art courtesy of Tanner Karp @TannerKarp
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Lost in Memory Alpha!

Lost In Memory Alpha: A Star Trek Book Podcast

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Nick and Sam have found themselves placed smack dab in the middle of Memory Alpha, the Federation's planet-sized library. Armed with their wits, a Star Trek encyclopedia, and their sense of humor, they must work through the stacks, one Star Trek novel at a time...
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Smash Boom Best is a funny, smart debate show for kids and families from the Brains On Universe. Every episode takes two cool things, smashes them together and lets you decide which is best: Pikachu vs. Mario, Lollipops vs. Popcorn, Flamingos vs. Axolotls, Mermaids vs. Bigfoot, Cats vs. Dogs, Spiderman vs. Batman, Refrigerators vs. Toilets, Minecraft vs. Lego… the list goes on. Our star-studded line-up of debaters use facts and passion to make their case, teaching listeners how to defend the ...
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Sam Crenshaw is a veteran Sports Reporter and television Sports Anchor. The Weekend Morning Host here on SportsRadio 92-9 the Game, Sam is also a correspondent for Atlanta City TV and Spokesperson for the Sports Image Georgia Sports Marketing Group. He is also the play-by-play voice for Georgia State Basketball on ESPN3. Greg Clarkson is a weekend host at 92-9 The Game and spends countless hours working with casting agents to help people get cast as extras on TV and in film. You can read his ...
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The show format is a daily show and music interviews. Daily show mornings at 5 a.m. EST dropping new music released from local music scenes around the world. Music interview shows are twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at 5 p.m. EST. We cover every independent music genre. Artist interviews are in open format. Nothing taboo. We talk about them and feature new music. If it is important for you to hear new music before it hits mainstream, we will rock your world. Daily Drop ...
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Podcast Recovery

Podcast Recovery

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Podcast Recovery is a forerunner in digitally accessible addiction recovery support. We contribute education and awareness by highlighting the diversity in the lives of recovering addicts, to show that one addict helping another truly works.
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Lads on Tour

Lads on Tour

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A D&D podcast about a stag do at the end of the world. Follow us on Twitter @podsontour and Instagram @ladsontourpod Find us at ladsontourpodcast.com JJA Harwood is Guy Chapman (@JJAHarwood) Fay Evans is Lucas Rossi (@onlythegirl) Sam Ferguson is Artem Volkov (@samkferguson) Ruaraidh MacDuff is Gregg Roumbax (@RuaraidhMacduff) Susie Rae is DM (@SusieSJR) Cover artwork by Fay Evans.
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People Strategy Forum

Sam Reeve & Char Miller & Sumit Singla

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Every great leader inspires, motivates and rewards their people for performance. Welcome to the People Strategy Forum podcast, a show that guides leaders to elevate the workforce. People are at the heart of successful organizations. Team members’ well-being and career development are essential. This show discusses practical and effective leadership strategies for top executives, senior professionals, and talent managers. Aligning employer and employee objectives is a must. Every team member ...
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Season 7, Episode 76: Top 25 scores & NAIA Men’s Basketball Individual Category Leaders Report & a Billy D rant Crater Lake Photo by Forsaken Films on Unsplash Music: Hard Sell Hotel by Shane Ivers ⁠⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠⁠⁠ Music: Say You Will by Shane Ivers - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠⁠⁠ Cover Art courtesy of Tanner Karp @Tanner…
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A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that pu…
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Sri Lanka has long sat astride the monsoon winds between the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea – a small island at the centre of a very big story. For over a thousand years, Muslim pilgrims, merchants, scholars, and soldiers have passed through “Lanka” or “Sarandib”, leaving traces in Arabic, Tamil, Persian, Malay, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu, Dhivehi, a…
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Rachel Midura joins Jana Byars to talk about Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell UP, 2025) connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolution. In the sixt…
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Against the Chains of Utility: Sacrifice and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea (University of Hawaii Press, 2025) explores literary texts that countered the prevailing rhetoric of South Korea’s exploitative developmental state. These texts capture moments of anti-utilitarian sacrifice, and include Kim Hyŏn’s critical essays, Pak Sangnyung’s…
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The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935 by Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process. In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theo…
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Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting community college library value through historical context, practical applications, and future thinking. Through case studies, editorials from administrators, and practical approaches, it addresses why communi…
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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama examines the concept of early modern globality and the development of European toleration discourse through English representations of Persian monarchs and Persianate conceptions of hospitality as paradigms of interreligious and intercultural hospitality for early modern and Shakespearean drama. Engli…
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Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the modern world. But buried beneath the weight of good ol’ boy politics and white-washed histories lies the…
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How has China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs transformed itself into one of the most assertive diplomatic actors on the global stage? What explains the rise of “wolf warrior” practices, and how should we interpret Beijing’s evolving diplomatic identity? In this episode, Duncan McCargo speaks with Dylan Loh, an Associate Professor in the Public Polic…
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Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate effects and aftermath of the Great War on the architecture of Britain and the British empire during the interwar years. While much attention has been paid by historians to post-war architectural reconstruction after 1945, the earlier develop…
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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Daniel Vogelbach becoming a Brewers hitting coach and coach-hiring trends, analyze and phact-check Tommy Pham’s pitch for “PhamGraphs,” react to the Kazuma Okamoto signing and the Blue Jays embracing their big-market potential (in contrast to the Giants), and take the temperature of the pretty tepid stove (…
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Cole and Fool return after several months of not talking about wrestling to talk about wrestling! The full rundown on Wrestle Kingdom 20 from a guy who has seen some of the build up on twitter and a guy who has seen nothing since the last time we podded. Also a lot of diversions about various sports drama and the promise that we will do this again …
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Season 7, Episode 75: Top 25 scores & NAIA Men’s Basketball RPI Explanation & Category Leaders Report Crater Lake Photo by Forsaken Films on Unsplash Music: Hard Sell Hotel by Shane Ivers ⁠⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠⁠⁠ Music: Say You Will by Shane Ivers - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠⁠⁠ Cover Art courtesy of Tanner Karp @TannerKarp #NAIA…
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Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry. (2 part series) https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-tobacco-in-america/ https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/james-buchananduke-father-of-the-modern-cigarette-by-william-kremer/comment-page-1/ https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scripto…
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New Orleans is an indispensable element of America's national identity. As one of the most fabled cities in the world, it figures in countless novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as in popular lore and song. T. R. Johnson's book New Orleans: A Writer's City (Cambridge UP, 2023) provides detailed discussions of all of the most si…
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Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentally destructive. We therefore confront a dilemma: Is it possible to save the world by harming it in the process? Having spent over a decade researching …
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Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind. Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on them…
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Ecclesiastes has long been viewed as the great existential work of the Hebrew Bible, containing the famous cry "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." As part of a search for enduring meaning, it questions the nature of work, mortality, happiness, justice, goodness, and life itself. Abounding with careful observations, disappointments, and insights, E…
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Theodore Karamanski joins fellow Lake Michigan enthusiast Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Great Lake: An Unnatural History of Lake Michigan. Looking down from outer space a vast expanse of blue appears in the heart of North America. Of the magnificent chain of inland seas, only one of those bodies of water--Lake Michigan--is entirely within …
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As migration carried Yiddish to several continents during the long twentieth century, an increasingly global community of speakers and readers clung to Jewish heritage while striving to help their children make sense of their lives as Jews in the modern world. In her book, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature (Princeton U…
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The Earth Transformed. An Untold History (Knopf, 2023) is a captivating and informative book that reveals how climate change has been a driving force behind the development and decline of civilizations across the centuries. The author, Peter Frankopan, takes readers on a journey through history, showcasing how natural phenomena such as volcanic eru…
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In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks of torture and fatal wounds—hands bound by rope, machete cuts—and also for signs of identity: how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the t…
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In this (open-access) book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As she shows, the so-called eastern decadence of the Emperor Theodosius and his successors was in fact a calculated revolution in masculinity and the representation of imperial power. Here, the emperor's hard yet soft, mature yet …
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The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration. Helen J. Nicholson's book Women and the Crusades (Oxford UP, 2023) surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military exp…
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Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare with regard to legal gender. Based on empirical research conducted in Denmark, the book engages in some of the most controversial issues surrounding trans and gender diverse rights. The theoretical ana…
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Sam and Dan review the Dissolution by Nicholas Binge. SPOILER ALERT: This episode contains spoilers. We strongly recommend reading these books before listening. In this episode, Dan and Sam dive into the sci-fi techno thriller, Dissolution, by Nicholas Binge. They discuss the characters, the presentation of the relationships, the somewhat shallow a…
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Season 7, Episode 74: Weekend NAIA Top 25 and Conference Breakdown of results Crater Lake Photo by Forsaken Films on Unsplash Music: Hard Sell Hotel by Shane Ivers ⁠⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠⁠⁠ Music: Say You Will by Shane Ivers - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.silvermansound.com⁠⁠⁠ Cover Art courtesy of Tanner Karp @TannerKarp #NAIAMBB #NAIA #Basketball Tw…
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Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latte…
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Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation that the triple disaster of March 2011 “exposed severe deficiencies in Japan’s nuclear safety governance.” This is the starting point for the rather curious story of the regulatory reforms taken up in the…
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How can we—jazz fans, musicians, writers, and historians—understand the legacy and impact of a musician like Dave Brubeck? It is undeniable that Brubeck leveraged his fame as a jazz musician and status as a composer for social justice causes, and in doing so, held to a belief system that, during the civil rights movement, modeled a progressive appr…
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In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Director (acting) Eli Karetny speaks with philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre about liberalism not merely as a political doctrine, but as a lived way of life. Against the backdrop of rising populism, nationalism, and post-liberal regimes, Lefebvre revisits the liberal tradition—from Locke and Mill to Rawls …
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The promise of Reconstruction sparked a transformative era in American history as free and newly emancipated Black Americans sought to redefine their place in a nation still grappling with the legacy of slavery. Often remembered as a period of failed progressive change that gave way to Jim Crow and second-class citizenship, Reconstruction’s tragic …
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Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX fraud with the detail and nuance of a financial fraud expert and cryptocurrency insider – but unlike any book before it, it also traces the ideas that enabled the crime. “Effective Altruism” and relat…
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Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo's dancers. Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be count…
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In 1956, Alfred Hitchcock focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The result was The Wrong Man, a bracing drama based on the real-life false arrest of Queens musician Christopher “Manny” Balestrero. Manny's ordeal is part of a larger story of other miscarriages of justice …
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Conventional wisdom holds that tradition and history meant little to nineteenth-century American Protestants, who relied on common sense and "the Bible alone." The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past (Oxford UP, 2023) challenges this portrayal by recovering evangelical engagement with the Christian past. Even when…
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Guy Laliberté went from busking on the streets of Quebec to entertaining Hollywood celebrities and wearing a clown nose on the International Space Station. BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng tell the story of the Cirque du Soleil founder, and how he turned his passion for parties into a billion-dollar entertainment empire. Go…
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In the second hour, Dave Archer speaks with Jerry C of Rooms to Go about their partnership with Home Depot. How does Room To Go and the Atlanta Falcons give back? They’re joined by Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl CEO Gray Stoken as he prepares for his last Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl. How has the Peach Bowl grown in the last 25 years? Plus, the guys are also joi…
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In the first hour, Sam and Greg open the show reacting to the Saturday NFL games. Tampa Bay wins but the Falcons and Saints hold the keys to the playoffs. In the second segment, Sam gives his local sports report highlighting high school basketball. Did you make it out to the She Got Game Tournament? The guys are joined by Kyle Sandy of Sandy Spiel …
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Mount Rushmore is something of an American Rorschach test. Some look at the monument and see American patriotic ideals carved into a mountainside. Others see only the rank hypocrisy of American presidents blasted into an Indigenous sacred site. In A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore, writer and journalist Matthew Dav…
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Philip Stern places the corporation―more than the Crown―at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australi…
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For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds (Duke UP, 2023), Arseli Dokumacı draws on ethnographic work with dif…
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Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil campaigners? Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States (Routledge, 2023) addresses these issues head on, to make a radical, but compelling argument in favour of the l…
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According to a famous prophetic report, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them.” What does “imitation” here mean? Rather, what does this statement really mean at all, and how have Muslims historically understood it? How did this simple report become a doctrine in the Islamic tradition? What does this hadith mean for Muslims today, in an inc…
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In this episode Drora Arussy speaks with historian Adam S. Ferziger about his latest book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism (New York University Press, 2025). Ferziger, a professor at Bar-Ilan University and one of the leading voices in the study of modern religious movements, offers a compelling exploration…
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A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and colonialism. China, however, took a different historical path. In Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The H…
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