Best Web3 Empire Podcasts (2025)

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The Bulwark Podcast: Bill Kristol: The Cracks in Trump's Power Are Showing 54:28

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Unrest has broken out in MAGA, and Mike Johnson looks like he’s losing control of the House—which means that Trump could be losing control of the party. And the fear of Trump is morphing into loathing because Republicans are not winning. Meanwhile, DOGE has ended in another total Elon failure: Not only was no money saved, the program’s biggest succ…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 11-24-2025 3PM EST 4:40

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3531 - Zohran's Masterful Meeting; Trump's Plan To Make Air Travel Worse 1:16:40

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It's a News Day Monday on the Majority Report On today's program: U.S. Travel Secretary Sean Duffy explains his reasons for rolling back passenger rights. He also urges travelers to "dress up and smile" when they fly. Zohran Mamdani met with Donald Trump and charmed the president into giving him a full-throated endorsement. The meeting has sent sho…

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The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth: The extraction industry powering the green transition 39:29

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Lithium is an essential ingredient of most modern electronics. It helps to power our phones, our laptops, and increasingly EVs and other key parts of the green transition. As Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist, environmentalist, and author of the new book “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism,” explains to Mark on this episode, the sto…

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 11-24-2025 2PM EST 4:40

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The Eurasian Knot: Fraternization and Survival During WWII 39:36

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Soviet ideology called for the emancipation of women. Soviet women would be active participants in public life, unburdened by the home, children, and husbands, and serve equally in the building and defense of the Soviet state. Reality, however, was different, especially during WWII. Soviet women did serve in the Red Army and partisans. But life at …

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 11-24-2025 1PM EST 4:40

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4949: Threat Of AI And H1B Looms Over American Workers

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4948: Radicals Growing in Brazil Foreshadowing Of What's To Come In US; Security Guarantee Push For Ukraine

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Episode 4948: Radicals Growing in Brazil Foreshadowing Of What's To Come In US; Security Guarantee Push For UkraineBy WarRoom.org

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web3 with a16z crypto: AI, Networks, and What Makes Consumer Products Win 43:32

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with @cdixon @illscience Welcome to web3 with a16z crypto. Today’s episode digs into the forces shaping the next generation of consumer software — from AI-driven tools to the new economics of apps. Joining is Chris Dixon, a16z crypto founder and managing partner and one of the firm’s original consumer investors. He sits down with a16z General Partn…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 11/24/25: MTG Resigns, Zohran Trump Meeting, Zohran Endorses Hakeem Jeffries, Ukraine Peace Deal 1:16:09

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Krystal and Saagar discuss MTG resigning, Saagar reacts to the Zohran Trump meeting, Zohran endorses Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, and the Ukraine peace deal. Jeremy Scahill: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-palestinian-gaza-plan-trump-netanyahu-israel-ceasefire To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, unc…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 11/24/25: News Reporting on Netanyahu and Epstein, Mike Huckabee an Israeli Spy, X Update Exposes MAGA accounts 41:51

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Krystal and Saagar joins Jeremy Schaill to talk about Netanyahu sharing Drop Site News reporting on Epstein, Mike Huckabee welcomes an Israeli spy who wanted to nuke America, and a new X update exposes MAGA accounts operated from foreign countries. Jeremy Scahill: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-palestinian-gaza-plan-trump-netanyahu-israel-cea…

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: Churchill’s The Second World War, Part Twelve

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Once per week, Hillsdale College president Larry P. Arnn joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss Great Books, Great Men, and Great Ideas. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill’s sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes. Release …

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Bad Faith: Episode 529 Promo - Authorization to Lead 7:44

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Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast An all-star activist panel has been assembled to answer Briahna's questions about the strategy and efficacy of contemporary direct actions. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of feminist anti-war organization code pi…

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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast: Introducing "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" 2:05

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"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round up innocent citizens, Japanese Americans, at the outbreak of World War II. This six-episode narrative podcast will examine and shed new light on how that policy came to be, who was behind it, who attem…

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater 1:33:51

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Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events we face now may feel unprecedented, they are rooted in much deeper patterns, which humanity has been playing out for millennia. If we take the time to understand past trends, we can also employ practi…

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Bankless: The Real Crypto Cycle: What Happens When Global Liquidity Peaks | Michael Howell

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Global liquidity veteran Michael Howell joins to map out the “master variable” driving asset prices: a 65-month global liquidity and debt refinancing cycle that underpins booms, busts, and the recent “everything bubble.” He breaks down the coming debt maturity wall, rising repo stress, the shift from Fed QE to “Treasury QE,” and a new capital war b…

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EconTalk: The Status Game (with Will Storr) 1:01:11

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Will Storr talks about his book The Status Game with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, exploring how our deep need for respect and recognition shapes our behavior. The conversation delves into how we constantly judge others and compare ourselves to them, the pain of losing status, and the freedom of escaping judgment. Storr and Roberts discuss how status…

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Know Your Enemy: The Furious Minds of MAGA (w/ Laura Field) 1:09:36

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Laura K. Field's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right, published earlier this month, is a book we simply had to discuss. Listeners to this podcast will recognize its cast of characters—conservative intellectuals like Patrick Deneen, Michael Anton, John Eastman, Adrian Vermeule, and Harry Jaffa, among others—whose ideas and influence Fiel…

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The Bay Blend: Monday, November 24, 2025: How one family is providing affordable housing to one of Tampa Bay's poorest areas 6:43

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Housing costs are a big problem for a lot of people in the Tampa Bay area, and one family is trying to give some relief for that in one of the region’s poorest neighborhoods. You’ll hear about that, plus some things to do in the region as we get closer to Thanksgiving. Before that though, here’s the news. Website: https://www.wusf.org Sign up for o…

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CSPI Podcast: Abundance, Liberals, and the Future of Conservatism 1:09:03

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Jesse Arm (X, Substack) is the Vice President of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute. He joins the podcast to talk about his recent article, “Ezra Klein’s Blindspot.” Along with Richard Hanania, he discusses whether there really is a pro-abundance future for the Democrats. The conversation involves a comparison of the two parties, and a deb…

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The Daily: The Autism Diagnosis Problem 32:40

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Once primarily limited to severely disabled people, autism began to be viewed as a spectrum that included children and adults far less impaired. Along the way, the disorder also became an identity, embraced by college graduates and even by some of the world’s most successful people, like Elon Musk and Bill Gates. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy …

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The Nation Podcasts: Angelo Herndon and the Radical Politics of Free Speech w/ Randall Kennedy | The Nation Podcast 36:19

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Angelo Herndon was a Black coal miner turned Communist activist who was repeatedly “arrested, convicted of vagrancy, and incarcerated” for his efforts to educate and mobilize workers. In 1932, he helped organize an interracial protest against a county decision to cut off relief for the poor. But it wasn’t simply the protest that led to his chain-ga…

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The Opinions: America's Next Story: Senator Cory Booker 32:35

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Democrats can tackle affordability and confront the damage President Trump is doing to American democracy — but only if they get the leadership right, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, argues. Booker sat down with the Times Opinion editorial director David Leonhardt in late October to discuss his vision for the party, the stakes for the …

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Decoder with Nilay Patel: What the climate story gets wrong 50:32

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Hey everyone, it's Nilay. It’s been great being back in the Decoder chair this fall, and we’ve got a bunch of great episodes coming up to round out the year. But the production team is off this week for the holiday, so today, we’re going to share this episode of The Gray Area with you. This time, host Sean Illing is talking to data scientist Hannah…

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Macro Musings with David Beckworth: Mike Bird on the Land Trap and How the History of Housing Impacts the Global Economy 1:01:23

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Mike Bird is the Wall Street editor for The Economist magazine and is the author of The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset. Mike returns to the show to discuss the conclusion of Abenomics, the origins of land as an asset, the surge in housing prices during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the unsuspecting story of Wolf Ladejinsky, how housi…

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Odd Lots: Ray Dalio on the Five Forces That Make This a Historical Moment 58:06

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You're not imagining it. This really is a moment of tremendous historical change. Various forces are all aligned right now and reshaping how the world operates. That's the view of Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Capital, the world's biggest hedge fund. While Odd Lots has been around for 10 years, Dalio ran Bridgewater for an extraordinary fiv…

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Strict Scrutiny: Boy Math, Boy Law, Man Problems 1:46:18

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Leah, Melissa, and Kate dive into the raging legal battles over redistricting ahead of next year’s midterms, Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s massive oopsies in her prosecution of James Comey, developments with L’Affaire Epstein, and other assorted legal quagmires and outrages from the Trump administration. Then, Kate chats with University …

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Left, Right & Center: From Question Everything: The Epstein Files 53:41

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This week we bring you an episode from Question Everything, another KCRW podcast. Host Brian Reed brings together the reporters who know the Jeffrey Epstein case best – along with one of their Trump-supporting producers – for drinks and a candid, no-holds-barred conversation. They compare notes, challenge each other’s assumptions, and reveal what i…

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas: 336 | Anil Ananthaswamy on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI 1:14:11

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Machine learning using neural networks has led to a remarkable leap forward in artificial intelligence, and the technological and social ramifications have been discussed at great length. To understand the origin and nature of this progress, it is useful to dig at least a little bit into the mathematical and algorithmic structures underlying these …

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Acquired: Coca-Cola 4:04:28

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Coca-Cola is… sugar water. And somehow it’s also America, Christmas, summertime, friendship and happiness. Today we tell the story of how The Coca-Cola Company amazingly transmogrified a beverage into emotion in all of our collective psyches, and ALSO built one of the most incredible scale economy businesses of all-time. And oh yeah, there’s also c…

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The Rest Is Money: 227. How Economics Can Stop Us Making Stupid Choices 39:09

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How can governments and businesses nudge us to change our behaviour? Are we too easily manipulated by the private sector? How do we design economic policy for the real world, not mythical perfect markets? Robert speaks to the father of behavioural economics and Nobel prize winner Richard Thaler. For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money…

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Letters from an American: November 22, 2025 14:04

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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This American Life: 875: I Hate Mysteries 1:02:53

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What’s in the box? What’s in the $%&ing box?!? Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium subscription. Prologue: A class of second graders is handed a sealed box with a mystery object inside. They are supposed to guess what it is, but the lesson goes off the rails. (8 minutes) Act One: A man is hired along with a crew to di…

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Outside Lands San Francisco: 584: Alice Eastwood 1:15:34

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Nicole and Rebekah explore the remarkable life of botanist Alice Eastwood and the lasting impact she left on the California Academy of Sciences and San Francisco.By nicole @ outsidelands.org

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice 1:37:38

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TWiV explains the 1953 paper by Watson & Crick proposing a structure for DNA, and the role of Epstein-Barr virus in triggering the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science…

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Odd Lots: Risky Business Preview 3:45

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Here’s a preview of another podcast we enjoy, Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova. Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. Hosted by journalist and psychologist Maria Konnikova and data analyst and election forecaster Nate Silver, who both happen to be accomplished high-stakes poker players, the show explor…

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The Daily: Sunday Special: Wicked, Good? 51:44

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“Wicked” was one of the biggest movies of 2024. It was culturally ubiquitous, a box office smash and an Oscar nominee for Best Picture. Now, a year later, “Wicked: For Good” arrives in theaters to finish the tale of the complicated friendship between Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Can “Wicked: For Good” be the sens…

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Jacobin Radio: Behind the News: War and Neocolonialism in Sudan w/ Mosaab Baba 53:01

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Mosaab Baba, who wrote an article about Sudan for Black Agenda Report, looks at what’s behind the horrendous civil war. Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who’s been living in Japan for almost 40 years, discusses that country’s reactionary new prime minister. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics a…

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The Nation Podcasts: The Age of Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Doug Henwood | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer 42:48

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The famed economist Larry Summers, not for the first time, finds himself the center of a scandal. He’s had to take a leave from Harvard, where he teaches, because of embarrassing emails he had with his late friend Jeffrey Epstein. I talked to economic journalist and Nation contributor Doug Henwood, a long-time Summers watcher, about the career of t…

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The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer: The Age of Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Doug Henwood 42:48

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The famed economist Larry Summers, not for the first time, finds himself the center of a scandal. He’s had to take a leave from Harvard, where he teaches, because of embarrassing emails he had with his late friend Jeffrey Epstein. I talked to economic journalist and Nation contributor Doug Henwood, a long-time Summers watcher, about the career of t…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: 1007. Joseph O'Neill 1:23:01

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Joseph O'Neill is the author of the novel Godwin, now available in trade paperback from Vintage. O'Neill was born in Ireland and grew up in Mozambique, Iran, Turkey, and Holland. His previous novels include the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning Netherland and the Booker Prize long-listed The Dog. O’Neill’s short fiction appears regularly in The New Yorker…

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In Moscow's Shadows: In Moscow's Shadows 225: A Chance for Peace in Ukraine? 51:35

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In the first half of the podcast, I look at the proposed Ukraine peace deal, which is only a foundation for proper negotiations, especially in terms of what it is not. In the second, I spin off Susanna Rabow-Edling's excellent book, The First Russian Revolution. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 (Reaktion Books) to consider some of the modern resonance…

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The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly: #203 Zackonomics and the budget with Phil Armstrong (part 2) 47:48

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(Part 2) Patricia and Christian talk to Dr Phil Armstrong about the upcoming UK budget, and Green Party leader Zack Polanski's positive views of MMT. Full conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/142975558 Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast …

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Letters from an American: November 21, 2025 11:03

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114 40:17

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Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events we face now may feel unprecedented, they are rooted in much deeper patterns, which humanity has been playing out for millennia. If we take the time to understand past trends, we can also employ practi…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Ed West: visitor from a dying empire 1:27:05

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Today Razib talks to Ed West, a British journalist and author. He has served as deputy editor of UnHerd and The Catholic Herald, and has written columns for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He runs the Substack newsletter Wrong Side of History, where he explores culture, politics, and the longue durée of Western history. West is the author of…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4947: Redistricting And What's To Come In 2028; 28 Point Plan Of Failure

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Episode 4947: Redistricting And What's To Come In 2028; 28 Point Plan Of FailureBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4946: Dangers Of AI And Next Steps For The Fight Over Ukraine

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Episode 4946: Dangers Of AI And Next Steps For The Fight Over UkraineBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Mike on Matt Lewis Can't Lose 30:28

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Mike joins Matt Lewis for a lively crossover conversation that opens with deep dives into Huey Lewis puns before shifting into the Democrats' "affordability" message, why word wars matter more than policy wins, and how political optics collide with economic reality. They unpack everything from tariffs to AI dislocation to the future of the Democrat…