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The Syllabus / Listen Notes

A curated playlist of the best new podcast episodes that our system uncovers each week. We include our short summaries for each episode. For more information: www.the-syllabus.com

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00:50:50

Immigration Detention Inc.: A Conversation with Nancy...

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2025/09/04

Podcast: The Border Chronicle (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Immigration Detention Inc.: A Conversation with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre ConlonPub date: 2025-08-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative.Who profits from immigrant detention, and how is the money made? Geographers Nancy

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01:48:49

The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective /...

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2025/09/04

Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective / Gilbert AchcarPub date: 2025-08-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGilbert Achcar joins us to discuss his recent book, "Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective" (University of California Press). "This Day in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.Check out Gilbert's book here:

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00:42:26

Technofossils - Sarah Gabbott, Mark Miodownik and...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: The Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Technofossils - Sarah Gabbott, Mark Miodownik and Aurie StylaPub date: 2025-08-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBrian Cox and Robin Ince dig deep into the strata of an imagined human history to unearth the curious concept of technofossils. Joined by paleobiologist Sarah Gabbott, material scientist Mark Miodownik and comedian and tech enthusiast Aurie Styla the

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01:23:06

Episode 55: Soviet History, the Left and the Crisis...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 55: Soviet History, the Left and the Crisis of Liberalism with Alex MarshallPub date: 2025-06-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this wide reaching discussion, we sit down with historian Alex Marshall. Using his own works such as "The Caucasus under Soviet Rule" (2010) and the edited volume "Global Impacts of Russia's Great War and

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00:48:24

/504/ Vietnam's Victory: American War to...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Bungacast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: /504/ Vietnam's Victory: American War to Globalisation ft. Sean FearPub date: 2025-08-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn resistance and reform in southeast Asia.Historian Sean Fear talks to Alex H and Lee Jones about Vietnam on the 50-year anniversary since the end of the war. How is Vietnamese identity wrapped up with the notion of resistance? Is Chinese influence as

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01:15:05

578: Translating Mafalda

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 578: Translating MafaldaPub date: 2025-08-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Emily Hart speaks to multi-award-winning translator Frank Wynne about Latin America’s most beloved cartoon - Mafalda - and how he brought her to life in English. Dubbed ‘a hero of our time’ by Italian philosopher Umberto Eco and ‘Charlie Brown with

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00:46:09

34. Spirit (w/ Catherine Malabou)

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Disintegrator (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: 34. Spirit (w/ Catherine Malabou)Pub date: 2025-08-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe couldn't be more honored to have Catherine Malabou on the pod, a serious inspiration for all of us. This episode covers so much, moving from AI to education to anarchism to feminism, but all grounded within a focus on automony -- the autonomy of language from us, the autonomy of an

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01:14:07

S2.E3. A Spatial History of Disco

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Soundscapes NYCEpisode: S2.E3. A Spatial History of DiscoPub date: 2025-08-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the third episode of Season Two of Soundscapes NYC, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares take you on an immersive journey through the hot nights and wild streets of Lower Manhattan during the Seventies. For this episode, Jesse Rifkin, a New York-based music historian and the owner and sole operator of Walk on the Wild Side

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00:54:18

Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Part One: Indymedia: How Lefty Techies and Journalists Reinvented the InternetPub date: 2025-08-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMargaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens. Sources:

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00:31:02

From Caesar to JFK – How assassinations have shaped...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: From Caesar to JFK – How assassinations have shaped the worldPub date: 2025-08-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFrom the assassination that sparked the First World War to the covert drone strikes of today, targeted killing has been used to shape history and shift the balance of power for generations. Today in The Bunker, Seth Thévoz is joined by

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00:29:36

Naomi Klein: The Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and...

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social DemocracyEpisode: Naomi Klein: The Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and Resistance from the Global SouthPub date: 2025-08-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAt the 2025 Panamerican Congress in Mexico City, held August 1st to 3rd, hosted by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her Morena Parliamentary Group, Canadian journalist Naomi Klein gave remarks at the Esperanza

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00:49:31

Why Complex Societies Collapse | Joseph Tainter

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2025/08/26

Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Why Complex Societies Collapse | Joseph TainterPub date: 2025-08-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs the world even collapsing?Joseph Tainter is a Professor at Utah State University and the author of The Collapse of Complex Societies. He explains on this episode that collapse happens when a civilisation experiences a diminishing return on complexity, the fact that it

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00:51:55

The Tech Cold War ft. Ansgar Baums

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2025/08/18

Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The Tech Cold War ft. Ansgar BaumsPub date: 2025-07-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOver the past few years, the practice of technology politics has outpaced its theory. As a result, fundamental questions remain unanswered: is technology the means or the ends for geopolitical contestation? Does technology denial work? What's the best strategy to outpace your

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00:46:05

Carbon Bros, Ep 2: Energy Dominance

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Drilled (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Carbon Bros, Ep 2: Energy DominancePub date: 2025-08-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen it comes to powering the US, “energy dominance” has become a favorite phrase of the Trump administration. But who or what are they trying to dominate with all that oil and gas? In this episode, we zoom out from climate change to trace how gender became so embedded in our collective

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00:33:14

How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking DemocracyPub date: 2025-07-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor a long time many (although by no means all) scholars saw the relationship between capitalism and democracy as mutually reinforcing: economic competition and growth were expected to sustain democratic competition and improve governance and

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00:56:44

Con, with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

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2025/08/18

Podcast: The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Con, with Emily M. Bender and Alex HannaPub date: 2025-07-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEmily M.Bender and Alex Hanna have been leading the charge against "AI", helping us understand it for the con that it is, and how AI companies are turning to health, education, and other social realms to try to recover their costs. In this episode we discuss LLMs

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00:59:39

S03E44 - Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Future Histories (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: S03E44 - Anna Kornbluh on Climate CounteraestheticsPub date: 2025-08-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAnna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.Events (from the introduction): at the Zollo Collective: https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=en at La Band

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01:56:34

The Problem of Disinformation (E334)

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2025/08/18

Podcast: QAA Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Problem of Disinformation (E334)Pub date: 2025-07-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week we are joined by Dr.  Olivier Jutel, a lecturer in the Department of Media, Film & Communication at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His scholarly focus is in communication studies and media theory, particularly around populism, digital media, political economy,

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00:36:07

BECOMING NATIONS AGAIN, w/ Adam Crepelle

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2025/08/18

Podcast: My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: BECOMING NATIONS AGAIN, w/ Adam CrepellePub date: 2025-07-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization"It shouldn't be that hard" says our guest. Americans first recognized Indians as tribes and as nations, at least at a national level. North America's indigenous peoples had government and effective government before european arrival. Returning to that model

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01:04:54

E220 - The Perils of Competition With China w/...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E220 - The Perils of Competition With China w/ Michael BrenesPub date: 2025-07-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip the ads. Great Power Week continues here at American Prestige as historian Michael Brenes joins the show to talk about how prolonged competition with China threatens democracy, peace, and prosperity. They compare Biden and Trump’s

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