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BiblioAsia+

National Library, Singapore

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BiblioAsia+ is a podcast series about Singapore stories: some unfamiliar, others forgotten, all fascinating. Does Singapore have a stone age? What’s happened to the murals at the old Paya Lebar airport? Who were some local tennis greats? Find out in this original podcast by the National Library Singapore.

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Completely Booked - Official Podcast of the Jacksonville Public Library

Jacksonville Public Library

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Listen to stories from local Jacksonville residents, learn something new, and get updates about events happening at the Jacksonville Public Library.

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Niner Nation Podcast

Evan Nazareth

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Focusing on insightful conversations for students and professionals, this podcast will discuss upcoming technology, social change, and the impact we can have on the community in UNC Charlotte and beyond. Episodes will be released weekly on Wednesday, add to your library and follow @niner_times and @the.nazareth for updates on upcoming episodes

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The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

Kelton Reid

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“Learn how acclaimed writers keep the ink flowing, the cursor moving, and avoid writer’s block.” Each week, host Kelton Reid chats with guests like Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, on life after becoming a laureate; #1 New York Times bestselling author, Emily Henry on her past life as a YA mid-lister; Celebrated author, Walter Mosley, on his conflicted feelings after winning a National Book Award; NY Times bestselling author, Lisa Scottoline, on what she learned from literary lion Phili ...

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PJ Library Presents: Afternoons With Mimi

PJ Library

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Snuggle up and have a little snack, with the best storyteller around, Mimi! Once a month join Kiddo and his grandmother, Mimi, for stories, snacks, and snuggles, in this new series from PJ Library.

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PJ Library Presents: Beyond The Bookcase

PJ Library

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Deep in the basement of congregation Sofer Shalom, there’s a dusty library that’s really the home of a magical portal to another world. Join siblings Miri and Micah as they explore a mysterious land, where stories come to life! Enjoy fairytales with unexpected twists and Jewish lessons as Miri, Micah, and their friends, encounter golems, book worms, giants and even talking animals! For full credits and accompanying activities, visit pjlibrary.org/podcast.

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New Books in National Security

Marshall Poe

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...

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The Next Page

United Nations Library & Archives Geneva

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Are you curious about the power of international cooperation? And how it affects our future? Tune in to the #NextPagePod, the podcast of the UN Library & Archives Geneva, designed to advance the conversation on multilateralism.

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Living Church of God - Audio Sermon Library

Living Church of God (International), Inc.

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Welcome to the Living Church of God’s audio sermon podcast feed where you will find sermons on topics including Prophecy, Christian Living, Bible Teachings, current National and World News, and trends.

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Sermons By All Nations Worship Center, Walpole MA

All Nations Worship Center

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Welcome to All Nations Worship Center's sermon podcast. This library is a great way to get to know our values, beliefs and sermon style. We are looking forward to seeing you on Sunday. Check out our website www.allnationsworship.org

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New Books in Economics

Marshall Poe

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You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry Podcast

Neon Night Media

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Since 1989, the National Film Registry has selected 25 films each year that are deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In each episode, Mike Natale (Yahoo!) and Tom Lorenzo (Men's Journal) bring on a special guest to take a look at one of the films from the registry, to get to the heart of why these films matter.

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Voices from the Homelands

The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library

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From the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library comes a new monthly podcast: Voices from the Homeland. Each month, hosts Miroslav Konvalina, Former Director of Czech Center New York, and Dr. Pavol Demeš, former Slovak Minister of International Relations, sit down with leaders, experts, and influencers to share insight into the current events of Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

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New Books in Anthropology

New Books Network

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The Buck Sexton Show

Premiere Networks

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Buck Sexton breaks down the latest headlines with a fresh and honest perspective! He speaks truth to power, and cuts through the liberal nonsense coming from the mainstream media. Interact with Buck by emailing him at [email protected]

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Inspirational Media - Conversations

Inspirational Media

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This is a conversational podcast that brings powerful moments from the Inspirational Media sermon library into fresh, engaging dialogue. Hosted by voices who care deeply about sharing timeless biblical truth, each episode unpacks key ideas from sermons, devotionals, and real-life stories — helping listeners reflect, relate, and rediscover hope in today’s world. Whether you're exploring faith, seeking encouragement, or simply curious about spiritual truth, this podcast is designed to stir the ...

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Moraine Valley Community College Library Podcast

Moraine Valley Community College Library

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Moraine Valley Community College Library, Palos Hills, Illinois, USA. The Library PodCast includes audio from cultural events and interviews with faculty and scholars. This podcast is intended to enhance the larger Moraine Valley curriculum. The views expressed by guest speakers or audience members are their own and are not necessarily the official views of the Moraine Valley Community College board of trustees, staff, faculty, or administration.

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Sounds from the Shelves

Salt Lake County Library

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Ever wondered what the B-side of library life is about? Well, here’s a hint… it’s not just books. Come join Mieke, Leonides, and Sarah from the Salt Lake County Library as they flip that record and discuss the less known sights and sounds of the library world. With special guest appearances dropping in to chat about music, writing, community, gaming, and yes, even books.

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Yollocalli

Yollocalli Arts Reach

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Yollocalli Arts Reach is the award-winning youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art, we offer FREE arts and culture programming to teens and young adults. Located in the heart of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, we serve as an open community center with studio spaces, computer lab, radio production studio, a large art library, and a creative, supportive staff and teaching artists who are always around to help, encourage, and inspire. We aim to strengthen the students’ cre ...

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Page Count

Ohio Center for the Book

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Page Count, presented by the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, features interviews with authors, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and literary advocates in and from the state of Ohio.

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A Bend in the Road

Ridgewood Public Library

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Has there ever been, over the course of your life, a moment or event that changed things forever? Where life zigged instead of zagged? Where suddenly you were on a new path, staring out at a horizon you never thought possible? For our guests, there have.Welcome to A Bend in the Road, where our host, Roberta Panjwani, interviews people from all walks of life about the times they took their own journey down a new path, just after a bend in the road. A Bend in the Road from the Ridgewood Public ...

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New Books in World Affairs

New Books Network

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Flixwatcher: A Netflix Film Review Podcast

Stripped Media

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Every week the Flixwatcher crew team up with other podcasters to talk about what to watch on Netflix! Flixwatcher is hosted by Helen Sadler and Kobi Omenaka. Every episode discusses and rates a film from Netflix as chosen by special guests from other podcasts using our unique Flixwatcher scoring system. We tackle classic films including Woody Allen's "Manhattan" and "Pulp Fiction" , Netflix Originals such as "Amanda Knox" and "Beasts of No Nation" through to bargain bin b-movies such as Shar ...

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New Books in Chinese Studies

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The National Library of Ireland

The National Library of Ireland

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The mission of the National Library of Ireland (NLI) is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge. It is open, free of charge, to all those who wish to consult the collections. The Office of the Chief Herald in Kildare Street and the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar are both part of the National Library. Further informatio ...

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New Books in German Studies

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Random Lines

Bartholomew Public Library

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Welcome to Random Lines Podcast. Your source for the latest library news, staff updates, book recommendations, and whatever else we feel like talking about.

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National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia

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Feed your mind with the best Australian stories and national discussions.

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Inspirational Media - Sermons

Inspirational Media

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For over 40 years, Inspirational Media has been a trusted source of sound biblical teaching in New Zealand and beyond. This podcast features powerful sermons and Bible studies from our vast library of over 3,000 messages by more than 300 preachers and pastors worldwide. Whether you're a long-time believer or new to the faith, these Christ-centered messages will encourage, equip, and deepen your walk with God. Listen, be inspired, and grow in the Word.

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New Books in Language

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New Books in Public Policy

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New Books in World Christianity

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Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

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One lifetime is too short to visit everywhere and meet everyone. That‘s why we love books with a strong sense of place — they let us travel the world in our imagination. In each episode of our Strong Sense of Place podcast, we explore one destination and talk about what makes that place different from everywhere else. Then we recommend five books that took us to that place on the page. Every other week, we share The Library of Lost Time, a mini-pod that features two new books and our Distrac ...

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Bury Libraries Podcasts

Bury Libraries

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Stay up to date with the many fun and educational classes, inspiring author visits, vast range of books and historical archives at the Bury Libraries.

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New Books in Big Ideas

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New Books in Native American Studies

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New Books in Technology

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New Books in Canadian Studies

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Book Club for Kids

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The place where young readers meet to talk about books. The show includes a celebrity reader and an interview with the author. The host is award winning public radio journalist Kitty Felde. Book Club won the California Library Association Technology Award and the DC Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Humanitites. Named one of the top 10 podcasts for kids by THE TIMES of London.

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Librarians with Lattes

UAlbany Libraries

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Join the University at Albany Libraries as they discuss hot topics in the information field, education, and current events - always with a warm beverage nearby.

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The Listening Project

BBC Radio 4

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Capturing the nation in conversation, in partnership with the British Library.

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Art · The Creative Process: Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art, Life & Creativity

Artists, Curators, Museum Directors Talk Art & Creativity · Creative Process Original Series

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Art episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to artists, curators, museum directors about their work & how they made their creative careers. To listen to arts episodes across a variety of disciplines, follow our main podcast: “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”. You’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations wit ...

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Conversations at the Washington Library

George Washington's Mount Vernon

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Podcasts, book talks and lectures from the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.

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Lit Chat with National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles 59:59

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Exploring and Collecting African American History Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles's Night Flyer changes all that, probing the ecological reality of Tubman's surroundings …

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The Land: Promise, Path, and Purpose 46:52

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Tom Marshall, a Bible teacher and pastor, speaks on the land as a biblical concept with three parts: land, seed, and universal blessing. He explores how the land stands for the truth and revelation of God, how it signifies a holy lifestyle that should mark God's people, and how the land as geography belongs to God and beckons believers to reclaim c…

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The Land: Promise, Path, and Purpose (Conversation) 12:56

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Best Of Buck Brief - Is Michelle Obama the Most Overrated Person Ever? 21:33

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From May of 2025 - The Best Of The Buck Brief. Is Michelle Obama the most overrated person of our time? Author and commentator Peachy Keenan joins the show to weigh in. From Michelle’s floundering podcast to the performative nature of progressive book collections, we break down the media machine propping up the Obamas, and why fewer people are tuni…

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Wales: Castle Ruins, Moody Skies, and Stories by the Fire 1:19:32

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We recently spent three weeks in North Wales, and TBH, we left a big part of our hearts in Cymru. From the mystical borderlands to the rugged coastline and the top of Snowdon, Wales is thick with friendly sheep, genial locals, alluringly dark folklore, and natural-born storytellers. A few bits and bobs about Wales: It’s symbolized by a ferocious re…

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Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 54:44

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The way we govern the past to ensure peaceful futures keeps conflict anxieties alive. In pursuit of its own survival, permanence and legitimacy, the project of transitional justice, designed to put the 'Never Again' promise into practice, makes communities that ought to benefit from it anxious about potential repetition of conflict. Governing the P…

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Anna Zhelnina, "Private Life, Public Action: How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow" (Temple UP, 2025) 52:01

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Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritarian government, residents supported or opposed the redevelopment by mobilizing and organizing into local alliances. They were often shocked by the…

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Radio ReOrient 13.8: Anticolonial Legacies of Bandung, with Adnan Husain, Rabab Abdulhadi, and Salman Sayyid 1:39:40

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Adnan Husain (Queen's, Canada) is joined by Salman Sayyid (Leeds) and Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State) in this episode to discuss the Bandung Conference of 1955 in the year of its seventieth anniversary. This conference brought together leaders of states that had only recently decolonised, and was an important moment of Global South solidarity…

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The Early and Latter Rains 59:11

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Mario Hernández | Recorded November 1, 2025By Living Church of God (International), Inc.

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How Bestselling Ghostwriter, Award-Winning Journo & Debut Novelist Adam Skolnick Writes: Part Two 44:01

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Part 2 of 2 Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Adam Skolnick returns to chat with us about the mystery of the creative process, why timing is everything in crafting a story, and his much-anticipated debut novel, AMERICAN TIGER. I am joined by my co-host Milena Gonzalez. Adam Skolnick is an author and award-winning journalist who covers…

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AI x Multilateralism: AI Empire or Global Commons? Why Inclusive Governance Matters, with Dr. Rachel Adams 34:25

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This is AI x Multilateralism, a mini-series on The Next Page, where experts help us unpack the many ideas and issues at the nexus of AI and international cooperation. AI has the dual potential to transform our world for the better, while also deepening serious inequalities. In this episode we speak to Dr. Rachel Adams, Founder and CEO of the Global…

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The Days before Air Conditioning 40:09

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Before air conditioning was introduced in Singapore in the 1920s, temperature control was a matter of architectural design. Environmental historian Fiona Williamson tells us how people kept themselves cool before air conditioning arrived, why weather science was important to the colonial enterprise, and what environmental history can tell us about …

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Prophets Are Coming (Conversation) 13:34

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Tom Marshall, a pastor and Bible teacher, speaks on the restoration of the prophetic office and the place of prophets in the church today. The talk surveys the biblical basis for prophets, distinguishes the office of the prophet from the general gift of prophecy, and describes the main forms prophecy can take—verbal prophecy, dreams and visions, an…

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Buck Brief - Locking Up Violent Maniacs Makes Us All Safer 13:34

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Buck breaks down the shocking broad-daylight attack on NYU student Amelia Lewis and the larger crisis of violent offenders being repeatedly released. He explains why Iryna's Law in North Carolina, which ends cashless bail for violent crimes, could be the model every state needs and how soft on crime policies are putting young women at risk on Ameri…

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Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 43:20

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The City and the Hospital (Chicago 2023) focuses on an urban paradox: American hospitals are imagined as sites of healing and care, and yet the people who live and work in nearby neighborhoods have some of the worst health outcomes in the nation. One part urban sociology and one part policy analysis, this book reports insights from a collaborative …

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Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025) 44:50

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The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social production of ageing in post-Soviet Russia, highlighting the role of grandmothers as primary caregivers due to men’s traditional estrangement from family life. This expectation places grandmothers, or babus…

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Nothing But a Man (1964): A Tribute to Michael Roemer 1:46:25

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“All I want is a place to live and a job.” – Nothing But a Man (1964) This week, we’re taking time to honor the life and legacy of filmmaker Michael Roemer, who passed away in May 2025. Roemer’s work has always stood apart as quiet, honest, deeply human, and we start with the film that introduced so many people to his voice: Nothing But a Man. It’s…

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Rebuilding the Nation (Conversation) 13:45

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Tom Marshall, a pastor and national revival advocate, uses Nehemiah to outline a plan to rebuild a nation. He explains how walls symbolize security, identity, and structure, and why a nation's value system matters as much as its laws. He then lays out a practical program: love the city, pray corporately, dream big with a long horizon, research the …

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Buck Brief - Secretary of War Hegseth Plans to Blow Up Boatloads More Narcos 17:10

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Buck cuts through the outrage over U.S. drone strikes on narco-terrorist boats loaded with fentanyl. He breaks down what really happened, why the mission required multiple strikes, and how this growing campaign is putting pressure on Venezuela’s narco-regime. Buck also calls out Democrats for turning a life-saving operation into a political weapon …

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Episode 44: Writer John Seabrook: From Fields of Ambition to a Fallen Empire 50:06

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For those who want an extra visual component, this episode is also available on YouTube. This month, Roberta sits down with The New Yorker writer John Seabrook to talk about his new book The Spinach King, a chronicle of the rise and fall of his family's empire: Seabrook Farms. Recently selected as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2025 by the Ne…

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A Conversation with Sean OBrien 10:47

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How does a White House speechwriter turn into a writer for kids? How do you become a Washington speech writer to begin with? We speak to Sean O'Brien, former speechwriter to then-Vice President Joe Biden. Kitty Felde is host.By Kitty Felde

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Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 1:18:38

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A thrilling tour of Earth that shows the search for extraterrestrial life starts in our own backyard. Is there life off Earth? Bound by the limitations of spaceflight, a growing number of astrobiologists investigate the question by studying life on our planet. Astronomer and author Jon Willis shows us how it’s done, allowing readers to envision ext…

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Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025) 1:06:12

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Following the end of the Cold War, the world experienced a remarkable wave of democratization. Over the next two decades, numerous authoritarian regimes transitioned to democracies, and it seemed that authoritarianism as a political model was fading. But as recent events have shown, things have clearly changed. In Dictating the Agenda: The Authorit…

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Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI 42:40

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Rebind combines reading with AI-chat to deepen learning and simulate the experience of conversing with some of the greatest scholars and thinkers. With Rebind, you can read A Tale of Two Cities with Margaret Atwood, Huck Finn with Marlon James, and Candide with Salman Rushdie. John and his team have recently launched the Rebind Study Bible, an inte…

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Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI 42:40

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Spiritual Warfare: Two Fronts, One War 56:09

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Tom Marshall, a pastor and teacher of spiritual warfare, invites listeners into a clear, urgent vision: the church must engage the war that undergirds both culture and individual lives, not merely attend to surface symptoms. He lays out five core principles for warfare: get on the attack, get altitude, get authority, get assistance, and get victory…

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Spiritual Warfare: Two Fronts, One War (Conversation) 15:35

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#20: 36th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and its Meaning for Slovakia Today (ft. Dr. Oľga Gyárfášová) 27:23

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This episode of Voices from the Homelands features sociologist Dr. Oľga Gyárfášová, who reflects on the 36th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and its meaning for Slovakia today. We discuss why November 17 remains a defining civic holiday, the rise in commemorative events, political tensions around its observance, and the symbolism of the new Ve…

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Jimmy Wales with Dan Gardner, "The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last" (Crown Currency, 2025) 50:07

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In my interview with Jimmy Wales, father of Wikipedia, we celebrate his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last (Crown Currency Publishing, 2025). We talk about how the book came about, how Wikipedia took flight, and how the challenges of maintaining trust and preserving neutrality shape the key to Wikipedia's …

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Anne Irfan, "A Short History of the Gaza Strip" (Simon & Schuster, 2025) 34:49

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In this episode, Joe Williams speaks to historian Anne Irfan about her new book, A Short History of the Gaza Strip (Simon & Schuster, 2025). Drawing on more than a decade of research, Irfan traces the political, social, and humanitarian history of Gaza from 1948 to the present, situating the territory’s current devastation within a much longer traj…

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Theresa Delgadillo, "Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas" (U Michigan Press, 2024) 55:52

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Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of race, ethnicity, and gender in imagining and enacting social change. Theresa Delgadillo crosses interdisciplinary and canonical borders to in…

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Anna Nyburg and Charmian Brinson eds., "Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering" (Brill, 2025) 36:13

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Refugees from Nazism to Britain in Trade, Industry, and Engineering (Brill, 2025) is a book in German Studies that explores the intricacies and impacts of refugees on British industry and engineering, through which new technology, business ideas, and strategies were imported to Britain. The book has fifteen chapters, detailing individual stories of…

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Jessica F. Green, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them" (Princeton UP, 2025) 27:51

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It’s no secret that the Paris Agreement and voluntary efforts to address climate change are failing. Governments have spent three decades crafting international rules to manage the climate crisis yet have made little progress on decarbonization. In Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them (Princeton UP, …

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Holiday Gift Recommendations from Little Professor 24:08

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You’ve just been handed a rectangular-shaped gift with the telltale heft and size of a book. Who knows what worlds might be contained in that one little object? This holiday season, you can give that same gift of possibility by shopping at an independent bookstore—and Nick and Celeste Polsinelli, the owners of Little Professor Book Center in Athens…

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How to Function in Your Spirit 1:02:53

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This episode examines our nature as a triune being—spirit, soul, and body—and how each part contributes to living a God-centered life. Tom Marshall outlines the three functions of the soul (mind, will, emotions) and the three functions of the human spirit: conscience, knowledge, and worship/communication, showing how these work together in real lif…

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How to Function in Your Spirit (Conversation) 15:29

4d ago15:29

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This episode examines our nature as a triune being—spirit, soul, and body—and how each part contributes to living a God-centered life. We outline the three functions of the soul (mind, will, emotions) and the three functions of the human spirit: conscience, knowledge, and worship/communication, showing how these work together in real life. A centra…

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Tom Marshall Series 12:26

4d ago12:26

12:26

This is an overview of the sermons of Tom Marshall, which outline a comprehensive vision for Christian spiritual living and corporate action, asserting that believers must learn to function in their spirit—the seat of conscience and intuition—to effectively communicate with and experience God. This spiritual grounding is presented as crucial for en…

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Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane 34:00

4d ago34:00

34:00

Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? (W.W. Norton, 2025) is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that river…

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Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane 34:00

5d ago34:00

34:00

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Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023) 43:12

5d ago43:12

43:12

In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how jus…

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John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022) 49:10

5d ago49:10

49:10

Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, they attempted to determine as precisely as possible the dates of events in the Buddha's life, seeking to iron out discrepancies in varying accounts and pinpoint when he delivered which sermons. Buddh…