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FRIENDS Season 2, Episodes 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18 REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!
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DR. RICHARD + JULIA ROBERTS, JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME, & MORE!! Friends Full Episode Reaction Watch Along / thereelrejects Download PrizePicks today at https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/RE... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! FRIENDS Season 2, Episodes 1 - 6 Reaction: • FRIENDS Season 2, Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... FRIENDS Sea…
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FROZEN (2013) IS MAGICALLY MOVING!! MOVIE REVIEW!!
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DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A SNOWMAN?! Frozen Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Download PrizePicks today at https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/RE... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! Frozen (2013) Movie Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown & Song Review! Andrew Gordon (CinePals) & Greg Alba dive into D…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 3 Breakdown & Review
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GHOST CHILDREN, MONSTERS, & DICK HALLORANN!! IT: Welcome to Derry Full Episode Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 Reaction: • IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 1 REACTION!! ... IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 Reaction: • IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 2 REACTION!! ... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Aparr…
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Extended Version: IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 3 REACTION!! 1x03 Breakdown & Review | Stephen King | Pennywise
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GHOST CHILDREN, MONSTERS, & DICK HALLORANN!! IT: Welcome to Derry Full Episode Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 Reaction: • IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 1 REACTION!! ... IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 1 Reaction: • IT: WELCOME TO DERRY EPISODE 2 REACTION!! ... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL R…
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Extended Version: DEXTER SEASON 5 Episode 3 & 4 REACTION!! Michael C. Hall | Julia Stiles | Dexter Resurrection
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DEXTER SAVES LUMEN!! Dexter Full Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Dexter Season 5, Episodes 1 & 2 Reaction: • DEXTER SEASON 5 Episode 1 & 2 REACTION!! M... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Andrew & John continue their journey with the Dark Passenger as they RETURN to give th…
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Extended Version: THE MATRIX: RELOADED (2003) IS FREAKIN' EPIC!! MOVIE REACTION!! Keanu Reeves | Laurence Fishburne
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FREE YOUR MIND!! The Matrix: Reloaded Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects The Matrix (1999) Movie Reaction: • THE MATRIX (1999) IS MIND BLOWING! MOVIE R... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Now that they've caught up with the Wachowskis' seminal 1999 Sci-Fi Classic, T…
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DEXTER SAVES LUMEN!! Dexter Full Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Dexter Season 5, Episodes 1 & 2 Reaction: • DEXTER SEASON 5 Episode 1 & 2 REACTION!! M... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Andrew & John continue their journey with the Dark Passenger as they RETURN to give their Dexter…
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THE MATRIX: RELOADED (2003) IS FREAKIN' EPIC!! MOVIE REVIEW
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FREE YOUR MIND!! The Matrix: Reloaded Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects The Matrix (1999) Movie Reaction: • THE MATRIX (1999) IS MIND BLOWING! MOVIE R... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Now that they've caught up with the Wachowskis' seminal 1999 Sci-Fi Classic, Tara & Aaro…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Extended Version: FRANKENSTEIN (2025) MOVIE REACTION!! Guillermo Del Toro | Oscar Isaac | Jacob Elordi | Netflix
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S ULTIMATE PASSION PROJECT!! Frankenstein Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Movie Reaction: • PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006) MOVIE REACTION!! Gu... With GDT's latest opus making its Netflix debut af…
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Extended Version: GAME OF THRONES SEASON 2 Episode 3 & 4 REACTION!! George R.R. Martin | A Song of Ice and Fire
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THEON BETRAYS THE STARKS & JOFFREY PUNISHES SANSA!! Game Of Thrones Season 2 Full Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Game of Thrones Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2 Reaction: • GAME OF THRONES SEASON 2 Episode 1 & 2 REA... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Tara & Andrew RETURN for mor…
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FRANKENSTEIN (2025) IS A GOTHIC TOUR DE FORCE! MOVIE REVIEW
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S ULTIMATE PASSION PROJECT!! Frankenstein Full Movie Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Movie Reaction: • PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006) MOVIE REACTION!! Gu... With GDT's latest opus making its Netflix debut after a limi…
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GAME OF THRONES SEASON 2 Episode 3 & 4 REVIEW!
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THEON BETRAYS THE STARKS & JOFFREY PUNISHES SANSA!! Game Of Thrones Season 2 Full Reaction Watch Along: / thereelrejects Game of Thrones Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2 Reaction: • GAME OF THRONES SEASON 2 Episode 1 & 2 REA... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Tara & Andrew RETURN for more Game of …
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Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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In her new book Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester UP, 2021), Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo explains how the modernization of this great city shaped and was shaped by print media and mass culture. A growing population, industrial immigration, mass connection with the wider world (making it both sm…
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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Today’s guest is Jenny Mann, who has a new book titled The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime (Princeton University Press, 2021). Jenny is Professor in both New York University’s English Department and the Gallatin School, and her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She …
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