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A Podcast Series by Evgeny Morozov. Forget the military or Silicon Valley: we owe our smart technologies - from toothbrushes to beds - to a band of eccentric 1960s hippies. Hidden away in a secretive, privately funded lab on Boston’s waterfront, these visionaries developed intimate, personal technologies a decade before Steve Jobs. But their rebellion was fraught with obstacles: the military-industrial complex, corporate resistance, and the founders’ larger-than-life personalities. As Silico ...
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The Explaining History Podcast has been exploring the 20th Century in weekly chapters for the past 10 years, helping students and enthusiasts engage with the past. With the help of expert guests, your host Nick Shepley navigates competing debates around the key events and processes of the past century. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/explaininghistory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A political podcast dedicated to combating one-dimensional thought through the insights of Philosophy, History, Economics, Critical Theory, Culture, and Society. Your boss makes a dollar, you make a dime, so that's why you listen to 1Dime Radio on company time. For access to the Patreon exclusive episodes (The Backroom podcast), become a Patron: thttps://www.patreon.com/OneDime
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Politics In Command (POLICOM) is a podcast based on anti-revisionist politics, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. The political line is everything. Website: https://www.politicsincommand.info/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/policomm
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5-Minute Videos are the flagship viral product that put PragerU on the map. They take the best ideas from the best minds and distill them into five focused minutes. Listen to hundreds of 5-Minute Videos to get reliable, truthful information about politics, economics, history, and America. These educational, entertaining videos, which are Judeo-Christian at their core and promote the values of liberty, economic freedom, and limited government, have been changing the hearts and minds of millio ...
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In this podcast, Matthew Rothwell, author of Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America, explores the global history of ideas related to rebellion and revolution. The main focus of this podcast for the near future will be on the history of the Chinese Revolution, going all the way back to its roots in the initial Chinese reactions to British imperialism during the Opium War of 1839-1842, and then following the development of the revolution and many of the ideas tha ...
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime.⁠ In this episode, I talk to the notorious Black Red Guard (BRG) about Maoism, Organizing in the DSA, and other Commie Gobbledegook. In the Backroom, BRG talks about Religion and Communism, The Nation of Islam, MAGA Communism, and the most bizarre…
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This episode is for all students of A Level Russian history, and it follows the AQA syllabus. In this episode we will explore the events of the February Revolution and the Tsar's catastrophic mishandling of the protests that began in Petrograd. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each week If you enjoy the Explaining History podcast a…
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How did people outside Petrograd hear about the events of February 1917? News spread quickly to cities like Kazan and Nizhni Novgorod due to the telegraph and train but more slowly in the towns and villages. The revolution was not experienced by all Russians, at all times in the same way. Instead the fragmented nature of Russia, its geography and s…
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The Conservative Party is one of British history's great survivors, it morphs and mutates when it needs to into new incarnations that help to preserve it and its mission to protect the interests of Britain's elites, institutions against the threat of change from below. This was always true until now. The party that many British people see as the na…
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In today's episode of the The Explaining History podcast we revisit Gary Gerstle's Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Era. Here we explore the New Deal Era that preceded it and examine the philosophical underpinnings of the historic project of rebalancing American capitalism through state intervention. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history…
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Why did American reformers and missionaries seek to eliminate prostitution worldwide at the end of the 19th Century and the start of the 20th? In this wide ranging conversation with Dr Eva Payne Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi about her new book, Empire of Purity. We explore how ideas around empire, race, eugenics an…
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This episode is for all students of A Level Russian history, and it follows the AQA syllabus. In this episode we will explore the revolutionary ideas that shaped the events of 1917 and their long history in Russia. You can access the full study notes bundle here Subscribe for weekly updates Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each wee…
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In this episode of the Explaining History podcast we explore A Consumer's Republic by Lizbeth Cohen, an excellent exploration of the development of consumer politics and identity during the Second World War. Here we look at the black experience of discrimination and the advantages that federal price controls brought to black communities, even thoug…
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Is diversity our greatest strength? Ask Western Europeans, who over the last decade have endured a tidal wave of immigration from the Muslim Middle East and Africa. Konstantin Kisin, co-host of the Triggernometry podcast, explains why multiculturalism might bring more problems than benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…
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As the ongoing genocide in Gaza now spreads to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the mass bombing of Lebanese citizens, this podcast is the first of a series of regular Friday features that examines current events to give them meaningful historical context. In this episode we explore the history of Israel's sense of national identity from 1948 onwa…
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠In this spicy episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Simone & Malcolm Collins, known as the “pronatalist” power couple who went viral following media attacks on “The Pronatalist Movement” - a response to the global fertility crisis and how birth r…
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The German General Staff in 1914 was widely thought to be the best organised institution for waging war that the western world has ever produced. Its ability to plan, prepare and achieve its strategic goals was a key part of Germany's successes and strengths during the war. This podcast episode explores the qualities of the General Staff and the of…
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This episode is for all students of A Level Russian history, and it follows the AQA syllabus. In this episode we will explore the context to Russia on the eve of revolution and the influence that the country's geography, class system and autocracy had, along with the impact of the war. Subscribe for weekly updates Help the podcast to continue bring…
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During the 1930s Franklin Roosevelt stabilised American capitalism using state power, regulation, the empowerment of organised labour and the regulation of finance in the New Deal. This compact lasted for the middle decades of the 20th Century and was finally destroyed by Ronald Reagan and his successors. This podcast explores the beginnings of the…
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Lyndon B. Johnson created hundreds of social programs to "cure" poverty. But who would administer those programs? And how exactly would they work? No one seemed to know. No one seemed to care. The goal was noble, and that’s all that mattered. Renowned historian Amity Shlaes explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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This week we hear from the eminent rock music author and biographer Patrick Humphries whose new book With The Beatles is a complete history of the group from childhood to the breaking up of the band in 1970. Patrick's personal encounters with three of the band (George, Paul, Ringo) and his extensive research about their career and the long and ofte…
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined again by the Hegelian philosopher Dr. Cadell Last, founder of the educational YouTube channel and platform called PhilosophyPortal (which has plenty of fantastic introductory lectures and podcasts on th…
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In 1973 the democratically elected socialist government of President Salvador Allende was overthrown in a violent US backed military coup led by general Augusto Pinochet. Following this seizure of power, tens of thousands of political dissidents were arrested, tortured and executed and economic shock therapy was administered to the country on a mas…
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Keegan Kjeldsen, host of The Nietzsche Podcast/Untimely Reflections, to talk about the powerful complementary insights between Nietzsche and Machiavelli, as well as other thinkers such as Karl Marx and Ibn Kha…
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Hi everyone and welcome back after the Explaining History summer recess. In this extended episode I interview LBC presenter and author Iain Dale whose new anthology of essays, Dictators launches today. In this wide ranging conversation about the nature of dictatorial leaders from ancient times to modern we examine the relationship the democratic wo…
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcasts by becoming a Patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Victor Bruzzone of the Pill Pod (Plastic Pills Podcast) to discuss forms of radical democracy such as Sortition - “the lot system” in which representatives are selected at random by lottery. It was u…
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Get access to The Backroom EXCLUSIVE podcast by becoming a Patron: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined once again by the Marxist philosopher Daniel Tutt to talk about his book Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. In his book, Daniel Tutt presents critiques of both Family Abolitionists and provid…
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The incidence of gender dysphoria has increased 5,000% over the past decade. A French report has called current treatments potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.” So, why do the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and many other medical associations support …
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