Best Berkshire Eagle Podcasts (2024)

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The Manchurian Candidate 2:55

3d ago2:55

2:55

Seems like ancient history now, but the assassination attempt against Donald Trump still looks a little fishy.By Donald Morrison

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A Pitcher of Warm Spit 2:53

3d ago2:53

2:53

The U.S. vice-presidency has long been a thankless job. Suddenly, it's hot.By Donald Morrison

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Didn't See This Coming 2:58

6d ago2:58

2:58

Political surprises in Europe, Supreme Court shockers in the U.S. and a debate performance that just won't go away.By Donald Morrison

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I Hope This Finds You Well 2:50

24d ago2:50

2:50

An overdue screed on a major threat to civilized society.By Donald Morrison

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Is Paris Ready? 2:47

1M ago2:47

2:47

The XXXIII Olympiad is only weeks away. Paris is still a construction site.By Donald Morrison

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Commencement Blues 2:50

1M ago2:50

2:50

Graduation speeches are usually high-minded and bland. Not this year.By Donald Morrison

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Consider the Lobster 2:59

1M ago2:59

2:59

As a major restaurant chain goes bankrupt, some questions about its namesake.By Donald Morrison

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The New Art of Naming 2:54

2M ago2:54

2:54

How to survive in the age of him, her, they, them and other linguistic minefields.By Donald Morrison

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Wasn't That a Time 3:01

2M ago3:01

3:01

College campuses across the U.S. are engulfed in anti-war protests. But that's nothing compared to 1968.By Donald Morrison

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The Winds of War 2:57

3M ago2:57

2:57

As Ben Franklin would advise, we shouldn't make fun of an old guy who stinks up the courtroom.By Donald Morrison

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The End of the World 2:54

3M ago2:54

2:54

Somebody sent me a silly internet article. Now I'm scared.By Donald Morrison

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What Would Trump Do? 2:51

3M ago2:51

2:51

The candidate has been surprisingly specific about how he would govern. We should pay attention.By Donald Morrison

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A Period of Uncertainty 2:55

3M ago2:55

2:55

America is at war. Over punctuation.By Donald Morrison

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The Cruelest Season 2:55

4M ago2:55

2:55

Ah, spring! Nature's ultimate con job. And we're not helping.By Donald Morrison

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The Volunteer 2:53

4M ago2:53

2:53

Where is Joseph of Arimathea when we need him? He's here, but you may not have noticed.By Donald Morrison

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Our Man in Havana 2:55

4M ago2:55

2:55

Cuba is dying, and we're mostly to blame.By Donald Morrison

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Two Women, One Dream 2:54

5M ago2:54

2:54

How a chance encounter by a couple of women from very different worlds changed the face of music.By Donald Morrison

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Go Fund Trump 2:40

5M ago2:40

2:40

I started a GoFundMe campaign to pay our ex-president's legal bills. It didn't go the way I expected.By Donald Morrison

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Taylor Swift for President 3:02

5M ago3:02

3:02

Politics used to be a serious undertaking. Now, it's a TV miniseries. May the best show get renewed.By Donald Morrison

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A Rhapsody for America 2:56

6M ago2:56

2:56

100 years on, a jazz-infused musical mess still has its charms..By Donald Morrison

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Royal Pains 2:57

6M ago2:57

2:57

Monarchy has its critics but also its charms. Is there a lesson for America here?By Donald Morrison

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Keep Our Highways Humorous 3:00

6M ago3:00

3:00

More states are introducing witty road-safety signs. The feds want to stop them.By Donald Morrison

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The New Puritans 2:53

6M ago2:53

2:53

How book banning became our new national pastime. Only it isn't so new.By Donald Morrison

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Using the H-Word 2:57

7M ago2:57

2:57

As scientists agitate to retitle a beetle, its unsavory namesake pops up in the U.S. presidential campaign.By Donald Morrison

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You've Never Had It So Good 3:04

7M ago3:04

3:04

In 1959, a national election hinged on whether the economy was really as good as it seemed. Sound familiar?By Donald Morrison

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Christ in the Elevator 2:54

8M ago2:54

2:54

Christmas is days away, but its music has been annoying us for weeks. Maybe that's a good thing.By Donald Morrison

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A Scrooge for Our Time 5:42

8M ago5:42

5:42

Marley was dead. But could his successor as House Speaker learn the true meaning of Christmas?By Donald Morrison

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Gracie is Missing 2:43

8M ago2:43

2:43

Losing touch with loved ones is bad enough. Not knowing whether they're alive or dead can be torture.By Donald Morrison

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Recycle This! 2:49

8M ago2:49

2:49

It's great that you separate the reusables from your trash, but you may be doing it all wrong.By Donald Morrison

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The Mother of All Conspiracies 2:59

9M ago2:59

2:59

How JFK's death 60 years ago made the world go insane -- and stay that way.By Donald Morrison

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Of Laughter and Forgetting 2:49

9M ago2:49

2:49

Our two leading presidential candidates can't seem to remember stuff. Is that such a big deal?By Donald Morrison

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The Last of the Mohicans 2:45

9M ago2:45

2:45

After centuries of slaughter and dislocation, Native Americans are on the riseBy Donald Morrison

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Random Acts of Kindness 2:44

9M ago2:44

2:44

Here's something that might arrest our downward slide into nastiness.By Donald Morrison

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Fear Itself 2:48

9M ago2:48

2:48

Can humankind survive the weaponization of anxiety?By Donald Morrison

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The Trouble with X 2:57

10M ago2:57

2:57

Israel-Hamas misinformation flourishes on a social media site run by a certain free-speech absolutist.By Donald Morrison

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Tell Me a Story 2:43

10M ago2:43

2:43

Reading to your kids in the age of book banning.By Donald Morrison

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Georgia on my Mind 2:51

10M ago2:51

2:51

On Russia's southern border, a small nation dreams of the West -- and lives in uncertainty.By Donald Morrison

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The Tooth about Stress 2:53

11M ago2:53

2:53

Why America is suffering an epidemic of tooth-grinding.By Donald Morrison

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A Night(mare) at the Opera 2:49

11M ago2:49

2:49

Why can't America pay its culture workers what they're worth?By Donald Morrison

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Hard-wired for Hades 2:56

11M ago2:56

2:56

No wonder it's hard to accept the reality of climate change. We're programmed not to.By Donald Morrison

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Killing the Messengers 2:58

12M ago2:58

2:58

A newspaper is raided, somebody dies, and the American press is suddenly back in 1837. For me, it's personal.By Donald Morrison

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Local Hero 2:55

12M ago2:55

2:55

A small white town sent a smart black boy into the world. More than a century later, he's finally coming home.By Donald Morrison

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When Politicians Get Old 2:49

12M ago2:49

2:49

Our leaders are growing long in the tooth and won't step aside. Here's how to fix that.By Donald Morrison

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Clusters of Trouble 2:59

1y ago2:59

2:59

The U.S. just gave Ukraine a banned weapon. Should we be alarmed?By Donald Morrison

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It Did Happen Here 2:54

1y ago2:54

2:54

How America almost dumped democracy in the 1920s.By Donald Morrison

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Sputnik Moment 2:53

1y ago2:53

2:53

American loves upward mobility. So why have we made college so impossibly expensive?By Donald Morrison

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The Shock of the New 2:43

1y ago2:43

2:43

Why our obsession with the new, the shiny, the technologically advanced is not very smart.By Donald Morrison

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The Chandelier in the Bathroom 2:55

1y ago2:55

2:55

Sloppy document handling earns a former president 37 criminal charges, but a related crime of his is largely ignored.By Donald Morrison

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The Death Limit 2:54

1y ago2:54

2:54

Instead of arguing about federal debt, maybe we should focus on saving taxpayer lives.By Donald Morrison

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The Song of Lunch 2:51

1y ago2:51

2:51

When the world of work paused to make way for something more important.By Donald Morrison

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