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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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00:50:47

The Internet Under the Sea

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Throughline (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Internet Under the SeaPub date: 2025-10-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you: not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. They’re an absolutely essential technology that’s also incredibly fragile — so fragile that in the beginning, most people thought they couldn't possibly work

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00:56:31

Traditions, roots and local pride

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Traditions, roots and local pridePub date: 2025-10-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFrom military ceremonies to folk customs - can traditions really provide an answer to nationalism and boost local pride? Former MP Penny Mordaunt is publishing a book called Pomp and Circumstance: Why Britain's Traditions Matter written with Chris Lewis. She's one of Matthew Sweet's guests

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00:53:58

Sovereign, with Paris Marx

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Sovereign, with Paris MarxPub date: 2025-10-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHost of Tech Won't Save Us and acclaimed tech critic, author, and international speaker, Paris Marx joins me for this episode where we discuss AI futures in a Canadian context: the idea of a "sovereign cloud", an "AI minister", and much more! Recorded Oct 15, 2025. Released Oct

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00:57:13

Episode 7.8: Socialism, Logically: Scott Sehon on...

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Episode 7.8: Socialism, Logically: Scott Sehon on Rights, Welfare, and MarketsPub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInterviewer: RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN. Philosopher SCOTT SEHON joins the podcast to discuss his book Socialism: A Logical Introduction (Oxford University Press). Sehon presents a "master argument" for socialism and defines

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01:00:59

The Long History of Capitalism's Critiques (w/ John...

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Climate Pod (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Long History of Capitalism's Critiques (w/ John Cassidy)Pub date: 2025-10-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere is no denying that capitalism has played a leading role in warming the planet. As the Industrial Revolution ushered in previously unseen levels of prosperity for some people, human beings' negative impact on the natural world exploded at a ferocious

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00:42:24

156: Cooking through the Silk Roads with Anna Ansari

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2025/11/08

Podcast: AnthroDish (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: 156: Cooking through the Silk Roads with Anna AnsariPub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf you grew up in the Western world, it’s entirely possible you’ve heard of a singular Silk Road used for trade between two major entities, Europe and China. And maaaybe Marco Polo. But the reality is so much more deeply textured and layered with transitions of food, spices,

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01:04:56

Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)

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2025/11/08

Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Eva Meijer, "Multispecies Assemblies" (Vine Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAnimals speak. Plants do too. Seas and mountains are not a mute background to human actions, but have interests and agency. Many more-than-human beings are political actors. All of us are part of a web of relations in which we affect others and are

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00:38:45

Extinction, Fast and Slow

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Extinction, Fast and SlowPub date: 2025-10-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOne of the difficulties in thinking about extinction, as Lorraine Daston argued in her recent review of Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi, is ‘the challenge of scale: the mismatch between our decades and centuries and the Earth’s epochs and aeons’. Lorraine joins Tom to explore the ways that ideas

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01:27:34

Slow Down or Die w/ Timothée Parrique

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Upstream (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Slow Down or Die w/ Timothée ParriquePub date: 2025-10-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Timothée Parrique joins us for a discussion on degrowth. We begin the conversation with explaining the concept of degrowth, looking at its history, and really unpacking what it is and what it isn’t. We talk about degrowth’s two-fold agenda to both downscale production and

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01:52:35

E112: [FREE EPISODE] Radical Reads - Be Gay Do Crime

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2025/11/01

Podcast: Working Class History (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E112: [FREE EPISODE] Radical Reads - Be Gay Do CrimePub date: 2025-10-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAs part of our Radical Reads series, we speak about our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine.Radical Reads is one of our Patreon-only exclusive series,

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01:30:38

E330 - American Sociocide w/ Charles Derber

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2025/11/01

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E330 - American Sociocide w/ Charles DerberPub date: 2025-10-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip the ads and get more episodes. Danny and Derek speak with sociologist Charles Derber about how American society is tearing itself apart, as explored in his book Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy. They discuss the

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01:18:17

427. Many Worlds of Extraction (ft. Laleh Khalili)

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2025/11/01

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 427. Many Worlds of Extraction (ft. Laleh Khalili)Pub date: 2025-10-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe chat with Laleh Khalili — author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy — about the different systems, footsoldiers, and circuits of extraction that are essential to capitalism. We take a tour of the great many worlds of

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01:24:57

72 - The Holocaust, Hamas, and Habermas w/Dirk Moses

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2025/11/01

Podcast: Spaßbremse (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: 72 - The Holocaust, Hamas, and Habermas w/Dirk MosesPub date: 2025-10-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe've discussed Germany's relationship with Israel and Palestine from several different angles on the show. How can we sum it all up? To offer his perspective, Prof. Dirk Moses outlines the five elements of what he calls the "German Catechism." He and Ted examine

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00:32:20

155: Queers at the Table with Dr. Alex Ketchum and...

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2025/11/01

Podcast: AnthroDish (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: 155: Queers at the Table with Dr. Alex Ketchum and Dr. Megan EliasPub date: 2025-10-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat makes food queer? Is it possible to name and list it out as simple, clearcut elements? In their new co-edited volume, Queers at the Table, Doctors Alex Ketchum and Megan Elias explore this question with a community of writers, illustrators, and recipe

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00:49:30

Leslie Regan Shade on the internet, political...

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2025/11/01

Podcast: culturalstudies (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Leslie Regan Shade on the internet, political economy, gender, and editingPub date: 2025-10-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLeslie Regan Shade on the internet, artificial intelligence, political economy, youth, gender, the Olsen twins, and editing You can read about her work here: https://ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/leslie-regan-shade/The podcast and artwork

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00:31:45

Under the Cover of Canadian "Print Nationalism"

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2025/11/01

Podcast: Humanities at LargeEpisode: Under the Cover of Canadian "Print Nationalism"Pub date: 2025-10-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJulien Lefort-Favreau explores print nationalism, the government-funded system that keeps Canadian publishing alive, and the new pressures it faces from neoliberalism, Amazon, and algorithm-driven culture. His research considers why literature remains central to Canada's public life and how publishing

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00:29:08

Ep 3 - It’s Never A Strategy To Remain Quiet with...

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2025/11/01

Podcast: A People's ClimateEpisode: Ep 3 - It’s Never A Strategy To Remain Quiet with Nick TilsenPub date: 2025-10-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA call for big, bad, bold courage.What does true climate action look like when it’s rooted in sovereignty, resistance, and liberation? In this powerful episode of A People’s Climate, Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Nick Tilsen—Oglala Lakota land defender and CEO of NDN Collective—to unpack the

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00:42:00

Karl Ittmann, "Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial...

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2025/11/01

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Karl Ittmann, "Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex, 1886-1945" (Oxford UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-10-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBeginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor

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01:10:43

Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Zeitgeist und GeschichteEpisode: Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond GeussPub date: 2025-10-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

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00:56:26

Ep 347 - Libertarianism vs. Reality with Brett Scott

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Macro N Cheese (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ep 347 - Libertarianism vs. Reality with Brett ScottPub date: 2025-09-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEconomic anthropologist Brett Scott, the author of Cloud Money, talks with Steve about libertarianism’s big lie. Or lies – plural.From a class perspective, libertarianism is largely an ideological tool that protects elite power by promoting a false narrative of

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