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Britain vs. Brexit 04.07.2023 45:54
Podcast : Crash Course (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Britain vs. Brexit Pub date : 2023-06-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When British voters decided back in June 2016 to end their 43-year membership in the European Union, it seemed the most surreal political and economic event imaginable. The European Union was a st...
Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook" 29.06.2023 1:24:41
Podcast : Sinica Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Economist Keyu Jin on her new book, "The New China Playbook" Pub date : 2023-06-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Keyu Jin, associate professor of economics at LSE, who talks about her new book, The New China Playbook: Beyo...
Timothy McLaughlin on Leila de Lima and the cost of criticism in The P... 20.06.2023 54:07
Podcast : A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Timothy McLaughlin on Leila de Lima and the cost of criticism in The P... Pub date : 2023-06-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “The Philippines is under a new administration, but still the government’s case against de Lima hobbles along, a symbol of the coun...
The American South and Country Capitalism 13.06.2023 1:03:41
Podcast : Professor Buzzkill History Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The American South and Country Capitalism Pub date : 2023-06-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why do so many big and iconic American corporations come from the US South, a region traditionally considered a backwater? Dr. Bartow Elmore explains h...
How the AR-15 Became the Most Popular Gun in the US 06.06.2023 53:19
Podcast : A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : How the AR-15 Became the Most Popular Gun in the US Pub date : 2023-05-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization About 16 million people in the US own one or more AR-15s according to The Washington Post and Ipsos. That is one in 20 people who own the semi-automatic weapon...
Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster: Latin America: Perspective from Peru on Politics and Economics | Hoover Institution 06.06.2023 59:14
Podcast : Today’s Battlegrounds (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster: Latin America: Perspective from Peru on Politics and Economics | Hoover Institution Pub date : 2023-05-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of Battlegrounds , H.R. McMaster and Julio Guzmán discuss Peruvian polit...
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 01.06.2023 1:04:20
Podcast : New Books in Communications (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022) Pub date : 2023-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in C...
Gold Mining And Resource Nationalism In Kyrgyzstan 09.05.2023 49:51
Podcast : Majlis (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Gold Mining And Resource Nationalism In Kyrgyzstan Pub date : 2023-04-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A recent Oxus Society report on Kyrgyzstan’s resource nationalism raises questions concerning officials’ messaging about the economic value of extracted mineral wealth...
Alcohol Central: Don't Drink Gachagua's Myth 03.05.2023 27:46
Podcast : The African Trumpet Episode : Alcohol Central: Don't Drink Gachagua's Myth Pub date : 2023-04-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In recent weeks, lawmakers and politicians in Kenya, including Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua have decried the alleged spectre of widespread alcoholism and sparked a nationwide hysteria. There is onl...
How Waco Became a Right-Wing Rallying Cry 26.04.2023 33:28
Podcast : The Political Scene | The New Yorker (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : How Waco Became a Right-Wing Rallying Cry Pub date : 2023-04-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Donald Trump recently staged the first major rally of his 2024 Presidential campaign in Waco, Texas . Thirty years ago, a botched federal raid on...
From Mali to Dubai: The United Arab Emirates & African gold 19.04.2023 58:00
Podcast : Voices of the Middle East and North Africa (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : From Mali to Dubai: The United Arab Emirates & African gold Pub date : 2023-04-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Now approaching seventy tons annually, gold has replaced cotton as Mali’s leading export, turning that country into Africa’s...
Environmentalism in Russia after the Invasion of Ukraine with Laura Henry 19.04.2023 1:10:19
Podcast : Chatter (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Environmentalism in Russia after the Invasion of Ukraine with Laura Henry Pub date : 2023-04-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Since the days of the USSR, the Russian people have expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of the country's environment. The post-Soviet yea...
The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis 12.04.2023 58:28
Podcast : Sinica Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Maoist legacy in Chinese private enterprise, with Chris Marquis Pub date : 2023-03-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Chris Marquis, a professor at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and formerly at Cornell’s bu...
CLIVE HOLES | History of Standard Arabic | Conversations 12.04.2023 1:09:52
Podcast : The afikra Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : CLIVE HOLES | History of Standard Arabic | Conversations Pub date : 2023-03-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Clive Holes talks about the relationship between standard and non-standard Arabic, cultural myths of the history of Arabic, and the vectors impacting...
Ep. 40 Guatemala: Indigenous Struggles Against The State 05.04.2023 38:38
Podcast : Latin America Review (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Ep. 40 Guatemala: Indigenous Struggles Against The State Pub date : 2023-03-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We speak to Cindy Forster, Professor at Scripps College, about her work in Guatemala and the struggles of the country’s The podcast and artwork...
Asylum and Extraction in The Republic of Nauru 29.03.2023 52:35
Podcast : UNSW Kaldor Centre Episode : Asylum and Extraction in The Republic of Nauru Pub date : 2023-03-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO talks to Julia Morris about her new book, 'Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru' on 23 February 2023. This book provides an extraordinary glimpse into Nauru’...
The "Iraq War" did not end w/ Amir Taha 29.03.2023 1:38:21
Podcast : The East is a Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The "Iraq War" did not end w/ Amir Taha Pub date : 2023-03-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his earlier episode, "Resisting Saddam." Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podc...
Ethiopia's New Dam Tilts the Balance of Power / Ann Neumann 22.03.2023 1:25:22
Podcast : This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Ethiopia's New Dam Tilts the Balance of Power / Ann Neumann Pub date : 2023-03-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We have on Ann Neumann to discuss her new Baffler article: "Hydropower: A dam on the Nile roils democratic relations in the Horn of Africa" Jeff deliver...
The rise and destruction of the Jewish fashion industry 22.03.2023 1:18:58
Podcast : Berkeley Talks (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The rise and destruction of the Jewish fashion industry Pub date : 2023-03-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Uwe Westphal, author of the 2019 book, Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry , discusses...
"Our Rights to Self-Determination: a Hawaiian Manifesto" with Anne Keala Kelly 22.03.2023 1:22:07
Podcast : The Green Flame (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : "Our Rights to Self-Determination: a Hawaiian Manifesto" with Anne Keala Kelly Pub date : 2023-03-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On this episode, Max Wilbert speaks with Anne Keala Kelly about her new short book, "Our Rights to Self-Determination: a Hawaiian Man...
Sesame Street and Soviet culture 15.03.2023 45:03
Podcast : Free Thinking (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Sesame Street and Soviet culture Pub date : 2023-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Muppets in Moscow is Natasha Lance Rogoff's account of launching a Russian version of the American tv series Sesame Street. If a single announcer supplies the dialogue dubbing whe...
Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India 15.03.2023 34:54
Podcast : HistoryExtra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Meeting the Mughals: England’s disastrous first embassy to India Pub date : 2023-03-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 1616, when the first English embassy was installed in Mughal India, England was a minor player on the global stage rather than a leading...
What it means to be Irish and Ireland’s Identity and Future: Fintan O’Toole on Culture & Religion Amidst a Rapidly Changing World 15.03.2023 45:56
Podcast : Arash's World Podcast Episode : What it means to be Irish and Ireland’s Identity and Future: Fintan O’Toole on Culture & Religion Amidst a Rapidly Changing World Pub date : 2023-03-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, I have the great pleasure to speak with Fintan O’Toole , Irish Times Columnist, Princeton Universi...
Let’s Talk: The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines 07.03.2023 20:13
Podcast : Views and News with Clarence Ford (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Let’s Talk: The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines Pub date : 2023-02-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Zain speaks to Kimon De Greef freelance journalist and researcher from South Africa. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk) 07.03.2023 1:33:58
Podcast : Know Your Enemy (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Realignments (w/ Timothy Shenk) Pub date : 2023-02-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Early in Timothy Shenk's absorbing, provocative recent book, Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy , he describes it as "...
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