Autonomia Podcast

Listen to this episode for patriotic readings of writing by songwriters, poets, Franklin Roosevelt and Byron on General Washington, “Home on the Range,” Ben Franklin, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and Japan’s attack on America during peace talks. Related Links and Episodes This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.su...

Audio podcast episode with my thoughts on Diane Keaton (1946-2025). Related Links, Episodes, Articles This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit scottholleran.substack.com Autonomia : where the freethinker can rest, refill and live free.

This podcast episode challenges the listener to get personal about war and remembrance. If I know you, I dare you to explicitly express yourself on the topic of the act of war 24 years ago which Leonard Peikoff justly named Black Tuesday . If I don’t know you, I urge you to listen to this episode and consider doing the same. Americans may not have another quarter century to keep America free from...

Listen to this episode for my thoughts and questions about the 23 year-old transsexual’s siege with high-velocity guns at a Catholic school in Minnesota. Listen to me read aloud two referenced short stories by yours truly—“ Egoless ” and “ Beautiful are the Brave ”—about a boy who chooses to commit an act of evil and a man who choose to become like a woman, and, then, doubts his choice. Read this...

Listen to my Easter Sunday thoughts—including on Easter’s themes, such as fertility—and introduction to a new series for Autonomia ’s paid subscriber. In this episode, I discuss forthcoming reviews of various books—as well as the previously reviewed album by Taylor Swift (read my 31-song review here ) on romantic grief and loss—focused on resilience from grief. I refer to my grief over America’s r...

Read the original article, published on my LinkedIn newsletter, The Scout , the basis for this episode, here . Related Links, Episodes and Articles Subscribe to The Scout by Scott Holleran on LinkedIn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit scottholleran.substack.com Scott Holleran extemporaneously expresses his thoughts on spending election night 2024 with strangers in LA’s San Gabriel Valley.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit scottholleran.substack.com Scott Holleran discusses the late Alain Delon, Gena Rowlands and Phil Donahue, including interviewing the legendary TV interviewer—who interviewed Ayn Rand—in this exclusive podcast.

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Listen and subscribe to Scott Holleran’s short stories Buy Reaching the Dead End in Apple bookstore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

Watch now | Video greetings from Scott Holleran with new pricing, short story and other news This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

Scott Holleran on “ Running Up That Hill ” by Kate Bush (EMI Records, 1985). Watch the official music video on YouTube . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

Scott Holleran on Muhammad Ali. Related Links and Articles This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

Let me announce and plug my new podcast: Short Stories by Scott Holleran . Subscribe to Short Stories by Scott Holleran Share this link: https://shortstoriesbyscottholleran.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit scottholleran.substack.com Anatomy of a Fall gets me thinking. This is an all-encompassing motion picture. Its characters, plot and theme stimulate, stir and soothe all at once in waves. At times, it’s an edge-of-the-seat, intellectual thriller. The movie’s sharp, visceral, emotional, psychological and extremely challenging. It’s likely...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit scottholleran.substack.com Scott Holleran reviews the 2023 motion picture musical version of the novel.

Bonnie Franklin, leading actress on Norman Lear’ s One Day at a Time (1975 to 1984), was born 80 years ago on this date. Related Articles and Links This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

Scott Holleran’s thoughts on integrating New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit scottholleran.substack.com/subscribe

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My movies reporting originates with two 1993 films I reviewed when they were later released on home video; Swing Kids and Rudy . Both are emotionally powerful movies by my judgment. Both received sincere and passionate reviews by yours truly. By then, I was writing news , opinion, sports and features—i.e., articles about people, books , radio, interviews , broadcasting, arts and music —and other j...

This podcast episode features Scott Holleran on his 30 years of book journalism. Follow Scott Holleran’s sole proprietorship on LinkedIn . Like Scott Holleran on Facebook . Support and follow Scott Holleran on X . Read the original article of this episode. Related Articles and Links This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

Reading Iron Pioneer: Henry W. Oliver 1840 to 1904 by Henry Oliver Evans (1942, Dutton and Company) affords an account of another world—during the climax of the Industrial Revolution—through the life and times of Pittsburgh’s perfect capitalist. Beginning with a phrase in Latin, ending with a poem by Tennyson and logging main lines, this family narrative about a forgotten titan both concretizes an...