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They’re mother and son, but also award-winning celebrity chefs, restaurateurs, and cookbook authors. Aarón Sánchez and Zarela Martínez will take you on a culinary journey featuring regional ingredients that are the soul of Mexican cuisine. From chilis to chocolate and everything in between, Aaron, Zarela and special guests will share stories, tips, techniques, and quintessential recipes in spirited kitchen table conversations.
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Michael Stein interviews comedians, actors, and various other artists from all walks of life, exploring their careers, successes, struggles, and deep thoughts. Hard-hitting, fast-moving, and hyper.
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So Well Spoken

Angelus, Mike & Moris

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The Black Culture podcast. A round table to discuss race relations, current events, entertainment and pop culture. SoWellSpoken.com @SoWellSpokenPod | @SoMiskeen | @SoWellMoris | @ MiekBrzy92 SoWellSpoken@Gmail.com
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The Rainbo Podcast will open your mind. Diving into conversations and stories about healing, health, human potential and consciousness. Tonya interviews thought leaders, healers, doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs, spiritual teachers, activists and dreamers. Aiming to inspire, empower, and uplift listeners with tools, knowledge and curiosity for personal and collective transformation. Reminding us of our universal truth: we are all One.
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Mindful Endurance Program aims to explore the intersection of spirituality and sport through the practice of movement. The podcast, hosted by Ryan Willms delves into endurance sport through the lens of personal growth, in connection to Self and community and how the convergence of movement and inner alchemy can enrich our experience of life. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mindufulenduranceprogram/support
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La difusión de la música mexicana es un problema en la actualidad, por eso, cuatro estudiantes de diferentes licenciaturas de la Universidad de las Américas Puebla decidimos crear este blog, como recurso de acceso para todo aquél que quiera conocer un poco más de la cultura musical que existe en México.
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The Mexican Montage

Manny Castellanos

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Welcome to The Mexican Montage, where yes, amazing things happen. However topics we discuss are controversial, insightful, and peak the nether regions of your brain. Also, being that I am “Mexican American”. I bring a fresh look into the mind, opinions and norms of a minority in America. Uno dos tres...Vamos!
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Culture Dive

Jackson Hartenbach & Matthew Fimbres

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A show that dives into all things culture and what makes our world go round. We interview guests who mold our society from all different industries. Topics range from business, sports, music, fashion, to food.
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We are a non politically correct podcast commentating on current and breaking news. Serious but not so serious, we discuss U.S news, world news, and everything in between. From cats to covid, listen to our out of pocket shenanigans as we attempt to make sense of the world through our perspective
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Learn Spanish with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at SpanishPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever!
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This podcast is about trying to figure out how to grow up and make it seem like you know what you are doing. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/agcastillo/support
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History 131

David Hoogland Noon

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Survey of the social, political, economic and cultural transformations that took place in colonial North America and the US from the 15th through the 19th centuries.
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Afropop Worldwide is an internationally syndicated weekly radio series, online guide to African and world music, and an international music archive, that has introduced American listeners to the music cultures of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean since 1988. Our radio program is hosted by Georges Collinet from Cameroon, the radio series is distributed by Public Radio International to 110 stations in the U.S., via XM satellite radio, in Africa via and Europe via Radio Multikulti.
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Comedians Michael Maryanoff and Reginald Desjardins take on the important issues (race, politics, culture) and the not-so-important ones (sci-fi, anime, video games) in a way black and Jew have never done before.
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Join Vanessa Fukunaga, Owner, President | CEO of Engel & Völkers Snell Real Estate and Ocean Blue World as she invites the movers and shakers around the world for epic conversations on how they are topping the luxury market and using their craft, talent and influence to propose positive change and expansion. Learn, laugh and be entertained with discussions on real estate, lifestyle, health, travel, architecture, fashion, beauty, technology, and absolutely e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that move the bu ...
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Hello Friends, I’m Rosie Acosta. I am a Meditation Teacher; Speaker and Author of You Are Radically Loved: A healing journey to self-love. I grew up in East Los Angeles during the 92 La Riots and it set me on a troubled path for many years. I didn’t grow up with mentors in my life, so I turned to reading as many books as I possibly could to learn about life’s purpose. In my journey as a First Gen-Mexican American, I found having these conversations gave me insight, support, and inspiration. ...
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"A Look Into How Art and Culture Changed The World." The Culture Lab is a place to study, dissect, and analyze how art and culture changed the world. The Culture Lab is a bi-weekly (longer format audio stories/musical episodes) public radio program and podcast. The Culture Lab also airs on alternate Tuesdays at KQBH 101.5 FM out of Los Angeles, Ca from 9pm-10pm, listen live on LPFM.LA or download the iOS app by searching LPFM LA. You can also listen to segments of this show on KPFK 90.7 FM e ...
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Radio Rejects Live is a podcast featuring failed radio host personalities. Join The Rejects as they discuss pop culture, the world today, and of course, do what they do best - EAT! You can watch Radio Rejects Live on Facebook every other Sunday.
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Chicano Mundo

Sigifredo Jimenez

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Chicano Mundo podcast is about Chicano culture. From music to art to the gentes, Chicano Mundo dives into the vast and rich culture that Chicano brings to society. As a first generation American, I felt the Pressure of keeping my Mexican identity, and accepting American culture. it wasn't until my early teen years I leaned towards Identifying myself as a Chicano. I fell in love with Chicano hip-hop, and as I grew older I started learning about the history of Chicano. From the Mayans and Azte ...
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Re-engineering their Social Engineering. The Study Of Stuff is about the humbling journey back to truth. It seeks to revive the late art of conversation to discuss the topics of Social Engineering, Culture Creation, New Age Deception, Orthodox Christianity, Mind Control, Geo-Politics, and Philosophy. With interviews, conversation, and weird videos, come together to reveal the truth, and help us with... Re-engineering their Social Engineering. Who is Mano Elia? Mano Elia is a performer who pa ...
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A podcast to start conversations about decolonization on a variety of topics with a variety of voices. Disrupting the status quo by supporting a new consciousness & liberation in all areas of life through practical tips + radical Ideas. Chicana (Mexican-American) hosted featuring community leaders, social workers, activists, friends, artists, healers, and YOU! Thanks for tuning in on this journey of learning and standing in solidarity!
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Companies need smarter, faster, more agile operations to thrive in volatile and unpredictable environments. At ConGlobal, we believe that future-focused terminals can balance the evolving expectations of customers, employees, investors, and others, fuel profitable growth, and deliver transformation with the right business outcomes. Join Seana Fairchild as she digs into the challenges every terminal and yard faces and how solution-makers join us to combine human ingenuity, experience, and inn ...
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Welcome to the spiritual battle of our lives. This kind of information is Dangerous to their plans of a technocratic, global enslavement takeover. Liberty, freedom and truth is what Dangerous INFO patriots like us all want, it’s that simple. Show guests include: L.A. Marzulli, Gary Wayne, KrisAnne Hall, Patrick Wood, Kate Dalley, Dr. Laura Sanger, Carrie Madej, Scott Mitchell, Mark Carpenter, Timothy Alberino, Professor Robin McCutcheon, David DuByne, Marjory Wildcraft, Joel Salatin, JC Hall ...
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Welcome to the official free Podcast site from SAGE Publications for Clinical Medicine & Research. SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets with principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore.
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Prepare to immerse yourself in the intricate world of coffee, encompassing every facet from the coffee bean to establishing a flourishing business. Whether your ambition is to start a coffee business or to nurture your own coffee roastery, Valerian’s Podcast is here to help to inspire you. Our podcast features in-depth discussions with industry leaders, designed to impart essential insights into coffee cultivation, coffee roasting mastery, precision brewing, and, most importantly, the critic ...
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Raiders of the Unknown is a Podcast produced by Mystic-Skeptic Radio our audio documentaries, books and radio shows address important subjects that affect us all. Raiders of the Unknown digs through archeology, theology, history, religious studies, anthropology and the unexplained to find the discernible truths of these enigmatic subjects. We track down experts in different fields and uncover truths behind ancient mysteries, the supernatural, paranormal phenomena, unexplained historical even ...
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Genus Brewing Beer Podcast

Peter McArthur, Logan Cook, Ryan Smith

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The folks here at Genus Brewing bring you all the in's and out's of brewing beer, beer culture, and brewing tips. New episodes every Monday and Live on YouTube every Sunday to bring you all the information you need.
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DIFERENTE

Maribel Quezada Smith

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The bilingual podcast that celebrates and explores the complexities of living life between two (or more) cultures. Host, Maribel Quezada Smith presents stories and interviews about cultural identity, questioning the norm, and becoming empowered, among other topics that relate to the bicultural experience.
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With food comes many questions...Are Smores considered sandwiches? Do Oreos count as Vegan sandwiches? Do Wheat Thins count as a snack? Why don't some people like Mint+Chocolate? Are they mutants? Should we kick them out? If you have considered thoughts like these, then you are in the right place. So grab a cuppa - and tuck in...We seek questions, and we seeks answers.Year of the Sandwich - Food Conspiracies. Gourmet Conversation.Please follow us on IG for pictures of the delicious food we t ...
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Authentic, freedom loving explosives and weapons experts discuss issues in culture, science, and spirituality. Dropping quantum thought bombs that still make sense in a world that is ever expanding. Up-level your thinking on the worlds dramas with these Texans whom are into self development and airy fairy things. Or stay for the explosive action as they blow stuff up for fun, we mean in the name of science.... as they are fully licensed explosives and weapons manufacturers who had a TV show ...
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People are yearning for reconnection, and for a variety of reasons, ceremonial rituals and psychedelic sacred plants are something we are continually called back to. My guest today, Paola Castelo, is dedicated to helping others reconnect with Mexican heritage by preserving and amplifying Mexican culture through art on her online platform Vuelta Sur…
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This is part #2 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Last episode, the spill devastates Cordova, Alaska. In this second part, 12 Angry Alaskans, a jury of ordinary Alaskans picks up our story. They muddle through the most devastating, and most complicated, environmental di…
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A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires. Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton UP, 2024) is a pa…
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Does the Labour Party’s 2024 election victory spell the end of the United Kingdom’s foreign policy interest in Asia? And how will its ‘progressive realism’ foreign policy paradigm shape its democracy promotion efforts in this region? Listen to Ben Bland as he talks to Petra Alderman about the UK’s post-Brexit tilt towards Asia, the new Labour gover…
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Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain (Stanford University Press, 2024) takes us inside the archive to demonstrate how the incongruities of the Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) and Franco (1939–1975) regimes were manifested in the regulation of erotic material cultures. Focusing on amateur pornographers and their confiscated and censored…
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It's November 3, 1957. As Sputnik 2 launches into space, carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, a couple begin their day. Virgil Beckett, an insurance salesman, isn't particularly happy in his job but he fulfills the role. Kathleen Beckett, once a promising tennis champion with a key shot up her sleeve, is now a mother and homemaker. On this unseas…
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Over the course of the Almoravid (1040–1147) and Almohad (1121–1269) dynasties, mediaeval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Iden…
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Non-profit organizations play an indispensable role in the world today, and are consistently rated higher than governments, the media or businesses in term of public trust. Yet many non-profit organizations suffer from dysfunction. New non-profit leaders find themselves unprepared for the challenges ahead, and even seasoned leaders often struggle t…
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In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly emissions rates, carbon output, and utilized resources are shared on companies’ social media pages, websites, and employee briefings in a bid for public confidence in corporate responsibility. And yet,…
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Lesley Smith of Oxford University joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life (University of Chicago Press, 2023). It has been 140 years since a full biography of William of Auvergne (1180?-1249), which may come as a surprise, given that William was an important gateway of Greek and A…
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Political Scientist Heath Brown’s new book, Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency (UP of Kansas, 2024), examines the presidential transition between the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration in late 2020 and into 2021. Presidential transitions are not all that frequent, since presidents who are re-elected do not ne…
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This week on Radically Loved, Rosie Acosta and Tessa Tovar discuss their recent endeavors, including learning how to sail and Rosie's health journey. Rosie shares her experience with fasting and the benefits she has seen. They also discuss the importance of discomfort and having systems in place to support new habits. Tessa shares her experience of…
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Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico (Duke UP, 2024), Claudio Lomnitz examines the Mexican state in relation to this extreme violence, uncovering a reality that challenges the familiar narratives of “a war o…
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Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. C…
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Schuyler Bailar didn’t set out to be an activist, but his very public transition to the Harvard men’s swim team put him in the spotlight. His choice to be open about his journey and share his experience has evolved into tireless advocacy for inclusion and collective liberation. Today’s book is: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why it Matte…
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This episode is the third one this series where we look back over the first principles of the ReOrient project. In previous episodes we have discussed post-orientalism and post-positivism, here we turn to decoloniality. Discussions of decoloniality have become increasingly mainstream since the ‘Decolonise the Curriculum’ and ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ move…
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What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to this question in what has been called, a “moral turn”. In this original ethnographic study, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (NUS Press, 2024), Justine Chambers…
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Rabbi Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in 1968, declaring that Jews must protect themselves by any means necessary. He immigrated to Israel in 1971, where he founded KACH, an ultranationalist and racist po…
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Does Hindu astrology work? If so, why? When does it not work? Why? Where and how did Hindu astrology arise and develop? What are its similarities with other astrological systems? These are among the unusual and fascinating questions tackled by an Oxford mathematician, Dr. A. P. Stone, who learned Sanskrit specifically for the purpose. Analyzing var…
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Modya and David are joined this week by Ruth Schapira (about whose work you can learn more at innerjudaism.com) to look at the role of grace and calmness within this week's Torah portion. Together, they focus on the value of gentle words in Moses' plea to be allowed to enter the land, and how a calm orientation is necessary to navigate difficult co…
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What would you do in the place of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter in 1943? Mumble your loyalty oath to Hitler like everyone else—or refuse and pay with your life? This martyr is a blessed in the Catholic Church and on the way to being canonized. He is also the subject of a transcendentally beautiful movie A Hidden life by Terrence Mallick in 201…
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This June 2020 episode, originally part of a Global Policing series, was Recall this Book's first exploration of police brutality, systemic and personal racism and Black Lives Matter. Elizabeth and John were lucky to be joined by Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham, two scholars who have worked on these questions for decades. Many of the mechanisms …
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What is money? Why are trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and yen being printed, but not spent, and what does this reveal about the state of our society? Money, as we know it, was born in 1971 when currencies unlinked from gold. During its adolescence, money was hyperactive, causing rampant inflation. Three decades of mature growth followed. But …
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Jim Barnes is a seasoned stand-up comedian based in Southern California. Originally from Fontana, Barnes, who was always the funny kid, was influenced by comedy greats like Henny Youngman. His early life was spent working at his family's motorcycle store while indulging in his passions for motorcycles, music, and rock and roll. ⁣ Barnes began his s…
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On this episode I got to catch up with Grayson Hart, former pro rugby player and founder of Puresport. It's been his more recent shares on exploring who we truly are, absolute truth, non-duality and cultural conditioning that inspired me to reach out and have him on the podcast. He shares more about his journey and evolution of understanding what's…
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Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Clarkson Potter, 2023), honors her kitchen ghosts, five generations of Black Appalachian women. She contends, “The concept of the kitchen ghost came to me years ago, when I realized that my …
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After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organisations. Utilising existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalise relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age o…
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In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world t…
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White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. Dr. Miguel Montalva Barba focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Politi…
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Shanghailanders (Spiegel & Grau: 2024), the debut novel from Juli Min, starts at the end: Leo, a wealthy Shanghai businessman, sees his wife and daughters off at the airport as they travel to Boston. Everyone, it seems, is unhappy. The novel then travels backwards through time, giving answers to questions revealed in later chapters, jumping from pe…
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The Second Epistle to Timothy is, by any standard, a remarkable document. Even as the apostle urges his friend and coworker hasten to Rome for a final meeting, the intimacy and urgency of Paul's words make clear his awareness that Timothy might not arrive in time to say goodbye. This makes the epistle deeply personal. But Paul has a much larger pur…
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Who was James Madison? Why were his Notes on Government so valuable to the American founding? Did James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all achieve what Sheehan calls “Civic Friendship”? Colleen Sheehan joins Madison’s Notes to discuss her seminal works on James Madison: The Mind of James Madison: The Legacy of Classical Republic…
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An interview with Salman Sayyid in which he addresses some of the criticisms of the recent definition of Islamophobia as “a type of racism that targets Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” To read more about the incident of Islamophobia mentioned in this podcast, please visit this link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Film critic Alonso Duralde and I talk his new book, Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Running Press, 2024), including some fascinating anecdotes, case studies, and watershed moments in queer cinematic history, not to mention its creators, its stars, its detractors, and its various ebbs and flows -- fr…
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Listen to this interview of Anthony Anjorin, a lead software architect at Zühlke Engineering, Germany; and also, Hsiang-Shang Ko, assistant research fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. We talk about their paper Benchmarking bidirectional transformations: Theory, implementation, application, and assessment (Software an…
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When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining…
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Send us a Text Message. Tonight we welcome back our good friend Marjory Wildcraft from the Grow Network for the month of August. It's about time when people are starting to think forward to the fall harvest and what you can do to store food. The next 4 months could be crazy times so preparing now for the unknown is key in your prep strategy. Visit …
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In the 1970s, the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depe…
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Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-century Protestantism. Always controversial, often persecuted, and well-known for their proselytising efforts, they have made a substantial contribution in terms of human rights, and they count numerous fam…
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983 (Simon & Schuster, 2018), by Marc Ambinder, is a history of US-Soviet Relations under Ronald Reagan and an exploration of nuclear command and control operations. Ambender weaves together accounts of military exercises, false alarms, and espionage to tell the story of how close the U.S. a…
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Perpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been trea…
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Movies under the Influence (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) by Dr. Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early cinema through the psychedelic 1970s. Dr. Szczepaniak-Gillece examines how the parallel trajectories of these two enduring aspects of American culture, linked by the…
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The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers the first theology of trust in the New Testament. 'Trust' is the root meaning of Christian 'faith' (pistis, fides), and trusting in God and Christ is still fundamental to Christians. But unlike faith, a…
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Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heath…
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Today I talked to Dianne Elise about her book Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field (Routledge, 2019). To be in the presence of a person—a woman in fact, and Dianne Elise in particular—who follows her instincts, someone who builds theory from the ground up, and whose theories keep evolving, enlivens the interlocutor. I almost h…
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Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. Invisible Labour: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (Berghahn, 2…
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Toward the end of the twentieth century, an unprecedented surge of writing altered the Israeli literary scene in profound ways. As fresh creative voices and multiple languages vied for recognition, diversity replaced consensus. Genres once accorded lower status—such as the graphic novel and science fiction—gained readership and positive critical no…
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Do you need to be a wolf to protect the sheep? That’s the question at the heart of Training Day (2001), in which Ethan Hawke plays the lead and Denzel Washington plays himself–at least for the first hour. What happens in the film once the sun goes down gets Mike and Dan arguing as they haven’t in a while: does the movie become yet another one where…
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