Best To42 Podcasts (2025)

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Night- The Rituals of Halloween – Halloween creepypasta 31:09

6d ago31:09

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Thank you so much for checking out these Halloween Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by…

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Victor Davis Hanson on Tucker, Trump, and the Fracturing Right 1:13:11

1d ago1:13:11

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My guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist, military historian, and senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Victor is one of the most articulate defenders of Donald Trump, and one of the few people willing to explain why millions of Americans still see him as a necessary corrective rather than a danger. We talk about how his years …

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Why are Gaelic footballers so attractive to AFL clubs? | How the All Stars are judged 46:58

1d ago46:58

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The ‘Irish experiment’ began in the 1980s and continues to this day, with Kobe McDonald and Ben Murphy the latest promising young footballers to be recruited by AFL clubs. But what makes GAA athletes desirable to professional teams in a different sport? Declan Bogue and Fintan O’Toole join Ronan Early to consider the appeal for the Geelongs and Car…

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BONUS: The 1987 Book that Explains Mamdani’s Victory 35:34

7d ago35:34

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Today, I’m bringing you a special bonus episode with professor Shilo Brooks. Shilo is the host of a new Free Press books podcast called, 'Old School'. For our conversation, I picked Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions. Although our conversation happened months before Mamdani's victory yesterday, I think Sowell’s theory of the two “visions” that s…

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Hormones, Ideology, and the Cost of Dissent with Carole Hooven 1:36:53

9d ago1:36:53

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My guest today is evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven. If you’ve followed her story, you know she was effectively pushed out of Harvard for articulating a basic biological fact—and doing it politely. We talk through her research on hormones, rough-and-tumble play, aggression, and libido; what puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones actually do; wh…

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Day - Chilling True Halloween Horror Stories To Get You In The Spirit 23:44

8d ago23:44

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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The GAA and amateurism: How long can the centre hold? 44:12

10d ago44:12

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Declan Bogue joins Ronan Early to discuss whether the GAA’s amateur status can continue to endure a growing number of players at the top level who are not content with the status quo. For how long is it sustainable that managers are paid and players are not? But what GAA administrator wants to tackle this most delicate issue? As Declan says, nobody…

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When Trick-or-Treating Goes Wrong - #creepypasta Halloween Day 1 2025 26:19

15d ago26:19

26:19

Thank you so much for checking out these Halloween Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by…

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Inside Cuba’s Police State: From Ration Cards to Black Berets with Gelet Martínez Fragela 58:31

16d ago58:31

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My guest today is Gelet Martínez Fragela, a Cuban journalist and political refugee whose outlet is banned on the island. We trace Cuba’s path from independence to dictatorship, and separate myth from reality on the embargo, healthcare, and poverty. Gelet describes ration cards, compulsory “labor camps,” and why Cuba’s incarceration rate is among th…

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Declan Hannon retires and Limerick’s changing of the guard 55:34

16d ago55:34

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Declan and Fintan join Ronan to discuss the news that we’ll not see Limerick’s history-making captain in the green jersey again. The lads track Hannon’s career from an attacking teenage sensation to the centre back and brain of Limerick’s multiple All-Ireland winners. Why was this smiley and, at first glance, unassuming man the standout leader in t…

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Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit 1:28

19d ago1:28

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On October 21, 2023, beloved Detroit community leader Samantha Woll was found brutally stabbed to death outside her home—two weeks to the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. It looks like an open-and-shut case—a hate crime. But swiftly the police rule that out. Instead they eventually find themselves with two unrelated suspects. When they ch…

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When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad 1:03:03

21d ago1:03:03

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Dr. Gad Saad is a visiting scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom in Mississippi and an evolutionary psychologist. We discuss his forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, in which he argues that the political left has taken empathy to a dangerous extreme. We also talk about his childhood as a Jew in Lebanon a…

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Day - Someone Who Looks Like Me Is Ruining My Life | Glitch In The Matrix Vol 43 33:54

22d ago33:54

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Thank you so much for checking out these Glitch In The Matrix Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to m…

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If God designed it, why is it so badly built? 13:09

27d ago13:09

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In this episode, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from the Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea. He examines why life looks designed yet is full of flaws, showing how imperfections in nature reveal the true workings of evolution and expose the limits of intelligent design. Hosted by Simplec…

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Dual dilemma: From powerhouse clubs to those who don’t even try 54:24

21d ago54:24

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The likes of Éire Og Ennis, Loughmore–Castleiney, Naas and Dunloy among many others are enjoying life on the GAA’s open dual carriageway, while countless rivals prefer to stay in their lane. Does being a dual club inhibit All-Ireland success? Or is ultimate success as many people participating in as many sports as possible? Declan Bogue and Fintan …

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Can Evolution Explain Our Politics? Nicholas Wade Thinks So 59:54

30d ago59:54

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Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for The New York Times and author of several books on human evolution, including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History and his new book, The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations. Today, I invite Wade on to discuss some of the toughest topics in modern s…

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Night - We Made A Terrible Mistake, I Need To Warn You – Vol 80 27:54

1M ago27:54

27:54

Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…

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The Rashomon Effect and a Death In Palestine 28:29

28d ago28:29

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The Rashomon Effect - Multiple people witnessing the same event remember it in contradictory ways, often colored by their own self-interest, trauma, or worldview.Applied to the killing of Rafaat Alareer and a Tweet by Bari Weiss00:00 The Rashomon Effect02:58 The Killing of Rafaat Alareer04:24 Perspective One - Bari Weiss, The Zionist Journalist12:4…

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The International Malcolm X: Gaza, Violence, and the Fight Against Colonialism w/ Michael Sawyer 1:22:50

29d ago1:22:50

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Malcolm X was more than an activist or organizer. In this conversation, Michael Sawyer, author of Black Minded and the forthcoming The Door of No Return, takes Malcolm seriously as a philosopher who linked Black freedom in the United States to anti-colonial struggle in Palestine. We talk Malcolm’s trip to Gaza, his push to move the fight to the glo…

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A Debate with Dave Smith: Israel, Iran, and American Power 3:32:11

1M ago3:32:11

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Note that this conversation took place before Hamas addressed some conditions of President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan and said it agreed to release all remaining hostages. This was the most requested conversation I've ever had, and one of the longest and most challenging. Dave Smith—comedian, podcaster, and libertarian foreign policy critic…

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How Zionism & Islamism Became Colonial Twins w/ Hamid Dabashi 1:16:42

1M ago1:16:42

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Iranian scholar Hamid Dabashi goes deep on empire, Iran’s revolutionary currents, and Palestine. We cover his “two nemeses” frame—global imperialism vs domestic tyranny—and why opposing one never excuses the other. He unpacks Islamism as a (once) liberation theology and its limits, the polyfocal currents inside Islam, the 1979 revolution’s three fo…

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Why Ants Tear Off Their Own Wings 14:00

1M ago14:00

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In this episode, Richard Dawkins revisits a 2012 conversation from the Great Minds program, produced by the Educational Broadcasting System in South Korea. Drawing on themes from his book Flights of Fancy, Dawkins explores humanity’s ancient dream of flight, the physics that govern it, and the evolutionary paths that enabled some creatures to soar …

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Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives 56:32

1M ago56:32

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Recorded live at the Comedy Cellar in New York City: I sat down with Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, best-selling author, and world-class debunker of doom, to talk about his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…:Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. We got into this idea of “common knowledge”: what…

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Day - Scary Dating Horror Stories, Ex’s you don’t want to meet – Vol 32 30:24

1M ago30:24

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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The False Lure of National Sovereignty and the Mirage of Liberation w/ Nandita Sharma 1:25:28

1M ago1:25:28

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In this conversation with sociologist Nandita Sharma, we dig into the deep contradictions of nationalism, sovereignty, and the postcolonial state. Sharma argues that the nation is not a pathway to liberation but a mechanism of ruling that reproduces inequality, exclusion, and capitalist domination. We explore her personal story of migration, the le…

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Politics for the Exhausted American Voter with Jane Coaston 1:21:55

2M ago1:21:55

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In this episode, I’m joined by Jane Coaston, a journalist and former host of The Argument podcast at The New York Times who is now a host at Crooked Media. We talk about how she became a libertarian, the spread of far-right conspiracies, why black support for conservatives is growing, and what the mainstream media continues to miss. A special thank…

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Night - I Need Access Into This Warehouse! - #creepypasta Vol 79 25:14

2M ago25:14

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Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…

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Why Ideas Spread Like Viruses 1:13:53

2M ago1:13:53

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In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard joins a live audience in Edinburgh to discuss his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead. In this wide-ranging conversation, he reflects on how DNA preserves the story of evolution, describing organisms as “living books” that record the environments of their ancestors. He explores camouflage, wha…

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Understanding the Black Conservative Vote with Janiyah Thomas 32:44

2M ago32:44

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In this mini episode, I’m joined by Janiyah Thomas, the Black Media Director for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. We talk about Charlie Kirk's assasination, Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C., and how Janiyah helped Trump win over black voters. If you enjoy these shorter episodes, let me know and maybe we’…

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Can Socialism Ever Really Work? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara 1:24:12

2M ago1:24:12

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My guest today is Bhaskar Sunkara. He’s the founding editor of Jacobin magazine and currently serves as president at The Nation. Bhaskar is a proud democratic socialist; he was even vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and he’s the author of a book titled The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Ine…

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Day - When The Matrix Actually Broke: True Glitch Stories - Volume 42 27:39

2M ago27:39

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Thank you so much for checking out these Glitch In The Matrix Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to m…

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Can We Still Be Optimistic About the Future? | A Conversation with Steven Pinker 1:37:12

2M ago1:37:12

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In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker explore the frontiers of science, language, morality, artificial intelligence, evolution, and the future of human civilization. Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of…

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Confessions of an Israel PR Insider: Manufacturing Consent In the Pews 1:19:35

2M ago1:19:35

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A former Israel Consulate staffer for the U.S. Southeast—Brandt Burleson—breaks silence. For eight years he built church networks, wrote Bible-laced talking points, and helped run a PR machine that, in his words, “wrapped a starvation campaign in a Judeo-Christian bow.” He explains how Christian Zionist theology was leveraged to pressure politician…

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Is America Rewarding the Wrong Values? Ben Shapiro Thinks So 1:08:23

2M ago1:08:23

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I’m joined by Ben Shapiro, a controversial figure who for many needs no introduction. Ben is a political commentator, author, and co-founder of The Daily Wire. He joins me to discuss his new book, Scavengers and Lions. We explore the central metaphor of the book and what it says about the moral choices facing our culture today. Ben lays out his arg…

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Night - Kids Need A Father – Two Chilling Creepypasta – Vol 78 26:59

2M ago26:59

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Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…

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Palestine, Petrodollars, and the Climate: The Converging Capitalist Crisis with Adam Hanieh 1:34:24

2M ago1:34:24

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In this conversation with political economist Adam Hanieh, we trace the deep connections between fossil fuels, finance, Palestine, and the climate crisis. From his formative years in Ramallah during the Second Intifada to his current research, Hanieh explains how oil became the invisible substrate of modern life, how Gulf petrodollars built today’s…

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Deal or No Deal? October 7 Hostage Families Divided 1:04:08

2M ago1:04:08

1:04:08

It’s been nearly two years since October 7, when Hamas took over 250 people hostage. Since then, families of the captives have led a relentless campaign to bring them home, but they haven’t always agreed on how to get there. As a new ceasefire deal is on the table, I speak with three voices from that struggle. One is Dalia Cusnir-Horn, who has one …

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Day - Unexplainable Matrix Glitches That Will Haunt Your Reality - Compilation 4 2:07:19

2M ago2:07:19

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Thank you so much for checking out these Glitch In The Matrix Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to m…

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Fear of Nonviolence: A Life of Resistance and The Deportation of Mubarak Awad 1:42:35

2M ago1:42:35

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In this conversation, I sit down with Mubarak Awad, often called the Gandhi of Palestine. Born in Jerusalem during the Nakba, Mubarak’s life has been defined by both tragedy and resilience — from burying his father as a boy, to dedicating his life to nonviolent resistance under occupation. We trace his extraordinary journey: his efforts to teach no…

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Falling into the Zionism Vortex - My Failed Efforts with Coleman Hughes and Sam Harris 19:05

2M ago19:05

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A final word on my efforts to help (no matter what you think) people like Coleman Hughes and Sam Harris avoid falling into the Zionist trap. Thoughts on Israel’s “disengagement” from Gaza in 2005, and why we have so much trouble believing Israel’s stated intentions.00:00 Learned Skepticism of Israel and Coleman Repeating Lies09:02 Is Epstein a Moss…

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Zionism, Gaza, & Starvation Motives Debating Israel & Palestine with Coleman Hughes Part 2 of 2 1:41:55

2M ago1:41:55

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In Part 2 of this 2 part conversation, we dive deeper into Gaza after Israel’s 2005 “withdrawal”, examine the blockade, restrictions, and the motives of a “starvation policy.” We also explore Israel’s close relationship with apartheid South Africa, and disagree on what these alliances reveal about the motives behind Zionism and occupation. The conv…

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Justice vs Peace? Debating Israel & Palestine with Coleman Hughes Part 1 of 2 1:01:39

2M ago1:01:39

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In part 1 of a 2 part conversation I attempt to engage with former co-host Coleman Hughes in a deep, difficult, and (hopefully) helpful debate about Israel, Palestine, Zionism, and the meaning of justice.We dig into:The “good guys vs bad guys” framing of Hamas and IsraelVillain origin stories and why history mattersZionism, the Nakba, and displacem…

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Israel Crosses the Rubicon - Lessons from South Africa with Patrick Bond 1:27:40

2M ago1:27:40

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In this wide-ranging conversation, political economist Patrick Bond joins me from Johannesburg to trace the lessons of South Africa’s struggles — from the fight against apartheid and Big Pharma to today’s battles over BRICS, Palestine, climate, and global capital. We dig into the meaning of “sub-imperialism,” the hypocrisies of governments that tal…

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The Dollar, Gaza, and Marxist Analysis of Capitalism’s Violent Global Decline — with Radhika Desai 1:31:29

2M ago1:31:29

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Political economist Radhika Desai offers a Marxist reading of today’s global crises — from Gaza to the dollar’s fragility. We unpack why she believes capitalism has reached its monopoly stage, why it cannot function without imperialism, and how those contradictions shape everything from U.S. foreign policy to BRICS. Gaza becomes a stark example of …

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Existential Authoritarianism vs Humanism Explained 17:38

2M ago17:38

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Some thoughts on authoritarianism and humanism with a passage from Erich Fromm's Psychoanalysis and Religion from 195000:00 Authoritarianism as forms of "worship"08:36 Fromm on Authoritarian and Humanistic Trends within Religion14:00 What Humanism asks of us16:39 The upcoming lineup

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Iraq, Israel, Empire, Epstein, and Endless War - Scott Horton on The Coming Crack-Up 2:18:26

2M ago2:18:26

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In this video, anti-war libertarian Scott Horton joins me for a wide-ranging conversation on the true mechanics of American empire. We talk about the strange new alliances forming as both left and right confront the costs of endless war, the covert operations that fueled U.S. intervention in the Middle East, and how Israel fits into the broader imp…

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The Bipartisan Assault on Free Speech w/ Greg Lukianoff 1:05:13

3M ago1:05:13

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Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, author, and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. You may know him from his previous books, The Coddling of the American Mind and The Canceling of the American Mind. His latest book, which was published earlier this summer, is The War on Words, Ten Arguments Against Free Speech—and Wh…

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Night -When Night Falls: Terrifying Tales That Lurk In Shadows - Compilation 12 2:48:49

3M ago2:48:49

2:48:49

Thank you so much for checking out these Horror Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. Got a…

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How Sensitivity Readers Made Publishing More Racist w/Adam Szetela 1:05:18

3M ago1:05:18

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This week on Conversations with Coleman, I’m joined by writer and cultural critic Adam Szetela, author of That Book Is Dangerous!, a trenchant look at how moral panic, social media, and identity-driven outrage are reshaping the publishing industry. We discuss the rise of so-called sensitivity readers who vet books to ensure they are as inoffensive …

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Day - These Reddit Horror Stories Will Haunt Your Dreams - Compilation 9 2:35:09

3M ago2:35:09

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Thank you so much for checking out these True Reddit Stories.🤗 Please remember to like, subscribe, share and comment 🥰 Sunday is a long form story that goes live at 3pm EST. This a channel of day and night, true and fictional stories. One week it will be day stories, brought to me by To. The next week it will be night stories, brought to me by 42. …

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