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Some Dare Call It Conspiracy

Some Dare Call It Conspiracy

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Welcome to Some Dare Call It Conspiracy with Brent Lee and Neil Sanders. A podcast that aims to deconstruct and demystify popular conspiracy theories. After 20 years exploring the world of Conspiracy Culture, we're taking our guests & listeners on a guided tour of the Rabbit Hole. Our mission? To discover where the truth lies. - Brent Lee is a former believer in the NWO/Illuminati Grand Conspiracy and was an activist in the Truth Movement from 2003-2018. Neil Sanders is an author covering Tr ...
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A Life Lived

Audioboom Studios

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From Muhammad Ali to Carrie Fisher, hear how the lives of the biggest stars were truly lived. With exclusive interviews from the people who knew them in life, journalist Stephanie Okupniak tells the stories of the dead.
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Spit! - Surf Podcast

David Lee Scales and Scott Bass

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Surf Talk Podcast. Scott Bass and David Lee Scales discuss all the latest news, gossip, rumor, and innuendo running through the surf industry and their local line-ups. www.SurfSplendorPodcast.com/category/spit/
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Angst

Donnie Davis and Stephanie Davis

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A weekly show on the topic of anxiety, hosted by two people with anxiety. Laugh and learn along with us. @angstthepodcast on Instagram
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Wholehearted Loving

Georgianna Lee + Stephanie Hunter

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For busy parents and professionals ready to prioritize healthy love and connection, listen now! We show you simple tools that give you superpowers in your life and relationships, and tell you stories about how we learned how to use them. With new episodes every week, tune in today for the gems you need to find balance and build a life you wholeheartedly love. "Like finding gold." - A. W. "The best therapy I've ever done for myself." - S. B. "I've never heard anyone speak in a way I could rel ...
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I am your very own truth detective. I will be uncovering the good, the bad, and the ugly...researching, and questioning everything about culture, society, people, places, our justice system, and corruption in private corporations and government agencies. I will leave no stone unturned. I will bring you feel-good cases discovered and uncovered that have happy endings, but also the sometimes controversial or seemingly conspiratorial topics. I will be giving you the straight facts and evidence. ...
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Pull up a seat and get ready to step into the woman you’re about to become. Join alongside National Bestselling Author, Jordan Lee Dooley, for this workshop-style podcast uniquely designed to help working women (like you!) steward your home, health, and work well – whatever your work looks like in this season. Each week, you’ll walk away with implementable steps to improve your everyday life as an ambitious woman. From cultivating a home to managing money well, women’s health to clean living ...
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Leaders - are your teams wrestling with complex challenges? You are not alone. The Unleashing Leaders Podcast will empower you with stories and strategies from leaders facing similar situations. Host Lee Scott, Founder and Chief Change Agent of Unleashing Leaders works with guests across industries to distill patterns and solutions for these challenges. Each episode provides practical steps to strengthen your team, clarify your vision, align your processes, and engage your people. You’ve got ...
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Manage Smarter

C. Lee Smith, Audrey Strong & C-Suite Radio

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Join hosts Audrey Strong and C. Lee Smith every other week as they dive into management, leadership, business, sales, company culture, talent retention, revenues, performance metrics, hiring and more. From debunking sales myths to learning how to manage with and without measurements, you'll learn something new with every episode and will be able to implement positive change throughout your workplace. Available on all major podcast outlets and all episodes available on ManageSmarter.com
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The InPowered Women’s Podcast is the Behind-the-Scenes exclusive of the stories of unstoppable female leaders who excel, uplift and do the work to secure a clearer path for female leaders in the future. Driven by her own experience as a marketing and sales executive, Sharon Lee leads conversations that unpack the challenges and strategies that have led to amazing breakthroughs. Prepare to be empowered to live life on your own terms and take that next leap! To book your free strategy session ...
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Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters throughout history. Host Erik Rivenes interviews authors and historians who have studied their subjects for years. Their stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.
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The Deal podcast network brings The Deal’s award winning coverage in M&A, activist investing, private equity and restructuring to your airwaves. With a suite of offerings, including Activist Investing Today (hosted by Senior Editor Ronald Orol), Drinks With The Deal (hosted by Senior Writer David Marcus), Behind The Buyouts (hosted by Senior Reporter Steve Gelsi) and Fresh Start (hosted by Senior Reporter Stephanie Gleason), The Deal’s podcast network is your go-to source for timely financia ...
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Beloved Journal

The Rev. Rob Lee

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What matters most to us in times of consequence? Is it wealth? Is it prestige and power? Is it likes or favorites? To me, what I hope to center is that friendship, family, empathy, compassion, quirkiness, humor, and hope will win out even amidst the fray of this transient and turbulent life. My name is Rob Lee, I’m a pastor, public theologian, and author working at the intersection of faith and public life. I want this podcast to be a place where I interview those people who are exemplifying ...
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Xavier is dead, and reality is rewritten. Apocalypse now reigns over North America, and Magneto leads the X-Men. Welcome to our new season of Power of X-Men: Apocalypse, the podcast where we review every single issue of the classic, reality-warping, high-octane, epic X-Men crossover event known as Age of Apocalypse! Each week we tackle a different chapter of this legendary 90s event with guest from all around the X-Men multiverse! Note: All of "Season 1" is Generations of X, hosted by both T ...
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Political news, live interviews and information on current events and sharing my perspective on things you need to hear. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thepatriotperspective/support
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The official fan show where five individuals, across the world, come together and discuss their favorite show 'Warrior.' Join our hosts (Zeus Fleming, Matt Chua, Rebeca Nishi, Stephanie Yong-Pratt, and Frank Zhong) as they recap/review each episode, interview cast and crew members from the show, and more. 'Warrior' is a martial arts drama set in the late 1800s and inspired by the writings of Bruce Lee.
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Entrepreneur Magazine calls Justin Donald “The Warren Buffett of Lifestyle Investing.” Imagine being able to earn passive income, long-term equity, and achieve financial freedom while gaining total freedom from your business or a job. That’s what Lifestyle Investing is all about. Justin Donald has mastered the low-risk cash flow investment principles he shares with entrepreneurs around the world. His alternative investing principles center on creating passive income and significant wealth wh ...
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Come join me daily, or whenever I can, for live chats. We'll possibly have callers and special guests from time to time. It's going to be a party! I've also just partnered with Stars Q&A! Check them out starsQA.com
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Award-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar moves back to his hometown of Huddersfield to cover the death of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub but realises that there is a much bigger story in town. Credits Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer and Sound Engineer: Pete Sale Head of Production: Stephanie Edwards Additional Production: Tom Hinckley Theme Music: Nainita Desai Executive Producer for Forest: Jeremy Lee Commissioning Assistant Producer: Emmanuella Kwenortey Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commiss ...
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Never wonder where your next client is coming from! Pipelineology is a podcast for entrepreneurs, agencies, consultants and sales professionals who want to fill their sales pipeline with hot prospects, close more deals, and have a predictable and reliable way to acquire new customers. This business podcast focuses on prospecting, customer acquisition, marketing automation, sales, retention and business growth... and have some fun along the way.
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Dark Fusion is a podcast geared toward readers and writers of all things dark and speculative and, while horror tends to be the main focus, without any genre prejudice. The brain trust of a conglomerate of writers, readers, and thinkers, including, but not limited to, Beverley Lee, Stephanie Ellis, and Shane D. Keene. We are here for the love of the written word and the power of a great story. Every episode is a masterclass in creativity and an endless source of great reading recommendations.
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Loving Fully and Living Faithfully Real stories of women who are living out their faith in love to God, others, and even to themselves. Tune in to discover how you too can be a love offering to those around you and learn to believe that what you offer matters.
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In the Line of Hire

In the Line of Hire

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Lee McQueen, season 4 winner of The Apprentice will be joined every week by special guests to chat and review each episode of The Apprentice and have our resident business Psychologist and COO of Phoenix51, Chris Wimshurst to analyse the candidates performances.
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Outweigh

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Outweigh aims to break the stigma around disordered eating and eating disorders. Hosts Amy Brown and Leanne Ellington share their own experiences with overcoming food and body image struggles and talk with experts who provide wisdom and careful guidance. Each week provides a dose of encouragement and hope for anyone navigating thoughts and behaviors in this space. These episodes are also helpful for loved ones that are coming alongside someone on this journey. You can hear Amy on "The Bobby ...
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Igniting Consciousness

Drs. Lee & Natalie Horine

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From the crunchy woman to those seeking more profound health and experiences for themselves and others, this is a place for you to expand your mind and understanding of science, spirituality, the world around you, and your place in it. WIth topics revolved around Natural Health & Wellness, Universal principles of Life, Energy healing, Human Design, Epigentics and Consciousness, you'll be challenged to explore the depths of your (old) thinking & be catalyzed to reset your versions of "normal" ...
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SouthBound

Tommy Tomlinson

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The South … What is it? Movies, books, songs, myths and legends have tried to explain this part of the United States. SouthBound, a new podcast series from WFAE, talks to people who were born and raised in the South. Hosted by journalist Tommy Tomlinson, SouthBound features conversations with notable Southerners from all walks of life – from artists and athletes to preachers and politicians.Who would you like to hear on the SouthBound podcast? Click here or use the form below to submit your ...
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A nonjudgmental space where psychology, pop culture, & self meet. Join Pennie Anassi & her special guest co-hosts as they bridge the gap between cool and conscious through scripted monologues and conversations. The show will take a humanistic & empathetic approach towards the discussion of mental health, hip hop, pop culture, addictions, relationships, family, spirituality, and life itself. Pennie is a first generation Kenyan-American media personality and lifestyle & entertainment writer th ...
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The Dental Head Start podcast is made to help dental students become great dentists. You cant google the path to dental success, but you can learn from those already there. We interview dentists who have achieved what you’re striving for and get the story behind the struggles, the successes and the advice they want you to hear. Get the head start you need in your dental career.
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What keeps your divinely designed wild heart from being free? Unlock the chains around your heart, break free from your old stories and access your divine birthright for joy and passion. Allow yourself to flow in the energy of fulfillment and freedom, expansion and expression as you were meant to in this life. Connect and be seen, be heard, be part of the bigger consciousness of humanity. Discover your unique gifts and superpowers which allow you to navigate the challenges along the way as y ...
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Defender Radio and The Switch

Michael Howie / The Fur-Bearers

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Defender Radio and The Switch bring experts and solutions to wildlife advocates and animal lovers around the world. Hosted by award-winning journalist Michael Howie, Defender Radio and The Switch are produced by The Fur-Bearers (TheFurBearers.com) and released weekly. Learn more at DefenderRadio.com
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Many women feel overwhelmed with the chaos of life, struggle with the fact that life, relationships and marriage are hard, and lack what they need to truly thrive. The Thriving Beyond Belief podcast, with host, Cheryl Scruggs, and online community provide women with encouragement & support, to better manage their stress, create healthy relationships, and build a life that thrives beyond belief.
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Welcome to Epochal Growth, the podcast dedicated to transforming the way we lead by embodying the change we seek. Embracing the belief that we are the leaders we’ve been waiting for, our mission is to empower leaders to create impactful and lasting transformations in their organizations. Hosted by industry expert Sarah Caminiti, each episode brings together visionary leaders and change-makers to explore the profound impact of inclusive and intentional leadership. Through engaging conversatio ...
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Monday Morning Pastor

Doug Moister and Bob Hyatt

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Monday Morning Pastor is a weekly podcast to encourage, equip, challenge and resource pastors and church leaders on Monday mornings. Monday is the hardest day of the week for pastors and the day pastors need the most encouragement. We want to tell and hear stories of hope and encouragement in the midst of this unique place in culture where the negative ministry stories seem to get all the airtime. Our hope is that these stories resonate with and remind pastors why we stay in the game. It is ...
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Teach. Motivate. Inspire. These are the themes that run through my conversations with people who are living their best lives. Guests on “Live Your Best Life with Liz Brunner” are best-selling authors, international executives, public personalities, thought-leaders, health and fitness experts, award-winning chefs and role models who are recreating their lives in interesting, unique ways. They have taken all of their life experiences, the good and the bad, the successes and even the failures, ...
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Let's Talk To Lucy

800 Pound Gorilla Records

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Lucille Ball was one of America’s first podcasters. In 1964 Lucy launched her CBS Radio Show “LET’S TALK TO LUCY” where she interviewed some of the biggest names in Hollywood. After the initial airing, they were never heard again, until now.
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Welcome to the Train Of Thought! Join us as we bring together the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people to the table for us to look back, reflect deeply, and move forward in life.
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When we unmaster motherhood, we are empowering ourselves to trust our own choices. Motherhood can seem so daunting, but that’s mainly due to society’s stereotypes about what motherhood should be. Join in as we discuss the many facets of motherhood, and more.
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In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features,…
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Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics,…
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In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…
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In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that ma…
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In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features,…
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In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In th…
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Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019) presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and mo…
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Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024) reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings…
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An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…
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In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In th…
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An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…
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What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually not about better choices for all but, rather, about the competition and exclusion that choice engenders—guaranteeing a system of winners and losers? Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioni…
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The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which these three famous figures were created - remains largely untold. In Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale, 2019), historian Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The C…
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OUTWEIGH: We are so excited to bring you the first official crossover series of the "What’s God Got To Do With It?" and Outweigh podcasts. If you have been listening to Outweigh, you know that THAT podcast is all about helping women break themselves out of the food and body prison, end the dieting madness, and take control of their health for good,…
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It's here, our final episode of our trip through WCW 1996. Episode 30 is this Friday and as per usual ACEFIELD RETRO returns with MIKE BELCASTER to discuss two jam-packed episodes. We take on STARRCADE 1996 and DEC 30th MONDAY NITRO to tie a bow on WCW's bow out of the year 1996 and move into 1997. What will be the lasting image we are left with in…
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In this week's episode, David and Modya speak with Rebecca Schliser, a core faculty member at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and rabbinical student at Aleph, The Alliance for Jewish Renewal. They explore the middah of silence through the stories in parsha Balak and see how a donkey may be more in tune with the Divine than a human by employin…
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Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…
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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
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“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearance—feared by some, desired by others,” writes Thomas Keenan. Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma (DPR Barcelona, June 2024) is about those stories and much mor…
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Kendra Sullivan's latest book of poetry, Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable her to narrate an attempted escape from the trappings of narrativity—plot, character, chronology, and the promise of a probable future issuing forth from a stable past. From deep within a narrowly constr…
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Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024) is the first English-language publication of its k…
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For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh capt…
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Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. Playing American: O…
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In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Pei-hua Huang. Dr Pei-hua Huang’s work lies where bioethics and political philosophy intersect. She is interested in the interaction of social issues and medical technologies. She has a special interest in philosophical issues raised by human and moral enhancement technologies and the treatment of morally relevant…
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Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits today at a moment of enormous opportunity. In the wake of the pandemic, a highly visible wave of strikes and new organizing campaigns have driven the popularity of unions to h…
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Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michelle Moffat addresses this oversight by providing a pioneering account of society and culture in wartime Scotland. While significantly illuminating a pivotal episode in Scottish hist…
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Our weekly show is here breaking down all things TNA WRESTLING. Colton is back with Acefield Retro! We dedicate the full episode to TALKING about more news with MOOSE saying that the relationship with WWE is much more beneficial than the 2021 AEW one & previewing SLAMMIVERSARY in MONTREAL for SATURDAY, The Rascalz & Joe Hendry were back on NXT tele…
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It's Thursday evening, and you know what that means! It is time to walk through those Tavern doors and order up a round of professional wrestling coverage from The Two Bad Chads! This week we talk AEW Dynamite episode #250 and all the happenings of the week! We talk the MJF and Will Ospreay Iron Man match; MJF winning the International Championship…
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Julia Christine is a channel, conduit and Intuitive Healer. In her healing sessions she uses her direct connection to Source Energy and an array of Spiritual Gifts to heal and remove stagnant energy and help her clients connect to their inner beings and therefore Source Energy, while also providing guidance and direction towards their own inner com…
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John Kuligowski is a Nonfiction Assistant Editor at Prairie Schooner and also currently a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He worked as an assistant editor for volumes 392 and 394 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography and has published in a number of venues both online and in print. Zainab Omaki is likewise a Nonficti…
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Anthony Di Renzo's Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023) is the most audacious guide to Rome you will ever read. Pasquino, the city’s witty talking statue, will introduce you to the gallant heroes and grotesque villains, humble peddlers and flamboyant nobles, whores and saints and movie stars who have reign…
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Pete Imperial has been principal of St. Mary’s Catholic High School in Berkeley, California, a Lasallian Catholic School of 160 years and going strong. Yet only 45% of the students are Catholics (though a similar number are Protestant Christians) and some of the kids have had no religious experience at all. How does a good Catholic school infuse th…
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In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present of the Islamicate, including her Sufi Mysteries Quartet set in 10th Century Baghdad. In this interview she tells Saeed Khan and Salman Sayyid about her…
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In this very moving and heartwarming interview I had the opportunity to discuss with Fida Jiyris her work, a beautifully written memoir that tells the story of her and her family journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present—a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return and search for belonging, see…
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A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborho…
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Melville Jacoby was a U.S. war correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War and, later, the Second World War, writing about the Japanese advances from Chongqing, Hanoi, and Manila. He was also a relative of Bill Lascher, a journalist–specifically, the cousin of Bill’s grandmother. Bill has now collected Mel’s work in a book: A Danger Shared: A Journa…
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Adam Jason is a Partner at Legacy Group, an investment firm in Latin America focusing on top-tier businesses and high-net-worth accredited investors seeking exceptional returns. Adam has a background in advising Fortune 500 companies and investment banks and has represented them in public and private offerings exceeding $10 billion. In our conversa…
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Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, which tells the story of a teenager named William Freeman. Convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit, he was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s new prison. Uniting incarcerat…
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The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gospels that would later be located at the front of the church’s New Testament were accepted by most churches and transmitted together in the same codex. Instead, erudite Christian readers employed new an…
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The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gospels that would later be located at the front of the church’s New Testament were accepted by most churches and transmitted together in the same codex. Instead, erudite Christian readers employed new an…
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Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. In Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024), Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH, offers an innovative vision for t…
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Eliza Scidmore (1856-1928) was a journalist, a world traveler, a writer, an amateur photographer, the first female board member of the National Geographic Society — and the one responsible for the idea to plant Japanese cherry trees in Washington DC. Her fascinating life is expertly told by Diana Parsell in Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journali…
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For some four hundred years, Hindus and Christians have been engaged in a public controversy about conversion and missionary proselytization, especially in India and the Hindu diaspora. Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology (SUNY Press, 2024) reframes this controversy by shifting attention from "conversion" to a wider,…
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In this engaging podcast episode, we explore the challenges of starting anew and the importance of embracing imperfection in creative projects. Our host shares personal struggles with consistency, self-doubt, and the pressure of comparing to others, leading to feelings of discouragement and a break from creating content. By reflecting on an artist …
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In today's show Scott and David dive head first into an ice bath and emerge reinvigorated by the prodigal return of Dave Rastovich, attempt to redefine the terms that describe his craft, celebrate the Month of The Laminator, pick the wildest of Wildcards, and lament the latest Olympic forecast. Plus Dukes and Kooks! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad …
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On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man’s body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of “shadow me…
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