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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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00:53:14

Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural...

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2025/06/30

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Andy Oler, "Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature" (LSU Press, 2019)Pub date: 2025-06-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn light of recent conversations about the crisis of masculinity, let's revisit Dr. Andy Oler's book Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature. I sat down with Dr. Oler to discuss the persistent

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00:43:46

The Journey Toward Everything for Everyone: A...

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2025/06/30

Podcast: Speaking Out of Place (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Journey Toward Everything for Everyone: A Conversation with M. E. O’Brien and Eman AbdelhadiPub date: 2025-06-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday I talk with M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi about their dazzling and challenging book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 to 2072. They imagine a world haunted by genocide,

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00:30:34

Has neoliberalism undermined climate action?

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2025/06/30

Podcast: The Land & Climate Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Has neoliberalism undermined climate action?Pub date: 2025-06-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGermany's 2025 federal election saw the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) double its support to 20.8%, becoming the second largest party, while the Green Party fell from 14.8% to 11.6%. The AfD denies climate science and opposes environmental policies

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01:18:46

How to Fall in Love with the Future w/ Rob Hopkins

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2025/06/30

Podcast: Upstream (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: How to Fall in Love with the Future w/ Rob HopkinsPub date: 2025-06-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf you look around at the state of the world—and the despair that comes with the reality of climate change, fascism spreading its tentacles around the world, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza—it’s very difficult to feel hope. It begins to feel like the forces of destruction and

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01:01:44

131: Green Capitalism in the Amazon with Maron Greenleaf

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2025/06/30

Podcast: In Common (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: 131: Green Capitalism in the Amazon with Maron GreenleafPub date: 2025-06-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Michael speaks with Maron Greenleaf, assistant professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. They discuss Maron’s recently published book, Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon, in which she examines a set of carbon offset

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00:36:48

569: La Escombrera: Colombia's Largest Urban Mass Grave

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2025/06/30

Podcast: Colombia Calling - The English Voice in Colombia (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 569: La Escombrera: Colombia's Largest Urban Mass GravePub date: 2025-06-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLa Escombrera, a vast rubble pile overlooking Medellín, is considered to be Colombia’s largest urban mass grave. Its excavation this year has unearthed the remains of people whose families have been searching for them for decades.

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00:39:08

Silicon Valley Imperialism with Dr. Erin McElroy on...

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2025/06/30

Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQDEpisode: Silicon Valley Imperialism with Dr. Erin McElroy on Talk of the BayPub date: 2025-06-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat happens when a former Soviet state experiments with Silicon Valley-style capitalism - when the worlds of open source hardware collide with proprietary corporate control? What happens when American landlords use the latest and greatest in surveillance tech to terrorize renters

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00:59:18

Jacobin Radio: The Americans Disappeared by Pinochet...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Jacobin Radio: The Americans Disappeared by Pinochet w/ John DingesPub date: 2025-05-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJournalist and author John Dinges joins Suzi to discuss his new book, Chile in Their Hearts. The book reopens the case of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi — two young Americans who went to Chile to experience the radical democratic socialist experiment of

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00:52:34

“You can’t put the oil back in the pipeline”

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2025/06/22

Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “You can’t put the oil back in the pipeline”Pub date: 2025-05-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by two legal experts from Earthjustice–Andre Segura and Stefanie Tsosie–to talk about the Trump administration’s attacks on the environment. They discuss the reconciliation bill that was passed yesterday and what this billionaire’s

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00:35:22

‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists, and Phobic...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Speaking Out of Place (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: ‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists, and Phobic Misogynists: A Conversation with Becca LewisPub date: 2025-05-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWorries about the so-called “pussification of Silicon Valley” are not at all new. Becca Lewis’ work reaches far back in American history to trace the nexus of gender, technology, and entrepreneurship, such that what we

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00:50:58

The history of photography

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2025/06/22

Podcast: The History Hour (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The history of photographyPub date: 2025-05-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMax Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. The expert guest is Dr Mirjam Brusius, a research fellow in colonial and global history at the German Historical Institute.First, we hear about Martín Chambi - Peru's pioneering documentary

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01:27:49

Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)Pub date: 2025-05-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car (Simon & Schuster, 2022), Alex Davies tells the enlightening and significant story of the effort to create driverless cars and the intense competition among tech heavyweights such as

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01:05:33

Imperialism, Debt, and International Finance with...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Return to Bandung (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Imperialism, Debt, and International Finance with Ndongo Samba Sylla and Farwa SialPub date: 2025-05-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, I’m joined by critical development economists Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa Region Director for Research and Policy at the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and Farwa Sial, Asia Region Director for

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00:22:08

Repression as Infrastructure - The Deeper Thinking...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: The Deeper Thinking Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Repression as Infrastructure - The Deeper Thinking PodcastPub date: 2025-05-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRepression as Infrastructure The Deeper Thinking Podcast When everything feels permitted, but nothing quite feels free—repression may no longer be psychological, but infrastructural. Repression is not hidden; it is designed. Not as an accident of the

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00:55:25

Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown?...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Energy vs Climate: How climate change is changing our energy systems (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown? Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a PipelinePub date: 2025-05-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSend us a textEd and David chat with special guest Andreas Malm, author of How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in

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00:45:15

How Coal Powers Your Electric Car // Jean-Baptiste...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Power StruggleEpisode: How Coal Powers Your Electric Car // Jean-Baptiste FressozPub date: 2025-05-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat if everything we believe about “clean energy” is built on a myth?French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz joins Power Struggle to challenge the dominant narrative of energy transition. From coal in electric cars to the illusion of hydrogen aircraft, Fressoz unpacks how modern societies haven’t

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00:52:30

F**k the Patriarchy: Tim Jackson's Path to a "Care"...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Keen On America (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: F**k the Patriarchy: Tim Jackson's Path to a "Care" EconomyPub date: 2025-05-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAs one of the most illustrious rock stars of the sustainability movement, Tim Jackson suggests that we must “f**k the patriarchy” to get beyond capitalism. In his new book, The Care Economy, Jackson argues that our growth-obsessed capitalist economic system is

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00:46:05

Why tech moguls think they’re saving humanity

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2025/06/22

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why tech moguls think they’re saving humanityPub date: 2025-05-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhy are we following the lead of tech billionaires when it comes to guiding public policy? Science journalist Adam Becker joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the ways Silicon Valley scions might have A.I. all wrong, the obsession with space colonies and why we aren’t asking more

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01:44:09

Subsidizing Crypto in the Climate Crisis / Candice Bernd

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2025/06/22

Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Subsidizing Crypto in the Climate Crisis / Candice BerndPub date: 2025-05-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCandice Bernd returns to This Is Hell! to discuss her recent writing at The American Prospect, "The Crypto Racket." After the interview, we hear a classic "Moment of Truth" from Jeff Dorchen. Check out Candice's article here:

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01:26:38

Ronald Reagan & the 1980s Conservative Resurgence

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Lectures in History (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ronald Reagan & the 1980s Conservative ResurgencePub date: 2025-05-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationUniversity of Texas history professor Mark Lawrence discusses the rise of Ronald Reagan, his impact on the conservative movement, and the Reagan Administration's performance in his first term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast

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