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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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00:54:11

Dangerous Dependency: Apple & the Rise of China |...

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2025/06/08

Podcast: Hidden Forces (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Dangerous Dependency: Apple & the Rise of China | Patrick McGeePub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Episode 416 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Financial Times correspondent Patrick McGee about the integral role Apple played in helping to build China’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem—and the geopolitical interdependencies and national

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01:00:30

Episode 407: African Revolution

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2025/06/08

Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 407: African RevolutionPub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe end of the nineteenth century witnessed the “scramble for Africa”, during which European powers imposed colonial regimes upon nearly the entire African continent. Yet the decades preceding that imperial feeding frenzy were times of revolutionary ferment and change, both

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00:54:05

Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani Rodrik

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2025/06/08

Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani RodrikPub date: 2025-05-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor the final episode in this series David talks to the leading economist Dani Rodrik about the case he made in the early 2000s that globalisation was unsustainable in its current form. How does he think this prediction has been borne out? What forms of

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01:09:18

We're Not Playing for Fun! Organized Workers' Soccer,...

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2025/06/08

Podcast: The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History. (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: We're Not Playing for Fun! Organized Workers' Soccer, Utopia (and Sobriety) between the World Wars - and the Message for TodayPub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGabriel Kuhn is an Austrian writer and researcher who works for the Central Organization of Swedish Workers - and sat for an in-person interview (he

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01:08:26

In the Soviet Archives: a conversation with Sheila...

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2025/06/08

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: In the Soviet Archives: a conversation with Sheila FitzpatrickPub date: 2025-05-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen Sheila Fitzpatrick first went to Moscow in the 1960s as a young academic, the prevailing understanding of the Soviet Union in the West was governed by the ‘totalitarian hypothesis’, of a system ruled entirely from the top down. Herexamination of the

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00:27:49

The Untold Story of Schengen: A Conversation with...

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2025/06/08

Podcast: RevDem PodcastEpisode: The Untold Story of Schengen: A Conversation with Isaac Stanley-BeckerPub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, investigative journalist and historian Isaac Stanley-Becker discusses his revealing new book, Europe Without Borders: A History (Princeton University Press). Drawing on newly accessible archives and in-depth interviews, Stanley-Becker sheds light on the little-known origins

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01:14:01

Migration and Climate Change

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2025/06/08

Podcast: The Eurasian Knot (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Migration and Climate ChangePub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFew migrants report climate change as a specific push to leave their home. Climate change is more an extra add-on to existing precarity. According to the World Bank, extreme weather, rising sea levels, violence, and resource scarcity will drive 216 million people to seek refuge by 2050

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00:33:01

Koji Hirata on Steel, Industrialization, and Chinese...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Koji Hirata on Steel, Industrialization, and Chinese SocialismPub date: 2025-05-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis month's episode looks at the history of Chinese industrialization by focusing on Anshan Iron and Steel Works or Angang, located in Manchuria. Long portrayed as the quintessential model of Mao-era socialist

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00:41:41

Africa and the Global South in the New World Order

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2025/05/19

Podcast: CUNY Graduate CenterEpisode: Africa and the Global South in the New World OrderPub date: 2025-05-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationZachariah Mampilly, the Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs at Baruch College and professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, joins The Thought Project to unpack the effects of the new world order on Africa and the Global South. Mampilly explains that outdated racial and

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00:57:04

E210 - White American Liberals, Pt 2 w/ Kevin Schultz

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2025/05/19

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E210 - White American Liberals, Pt 2 w/ Kevin SchultzPub date: 2025-05-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKevin Schultz, Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois-Chicago, returns to the program to continue the discussion of his new book⁠ ⁠Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History⁠. In this second part of the

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01:07:43

Menace to the Future w/ Jess Whatcott (Unlocked)

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Death Panel (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Menace to the Future w/ Jess Whatcott (Unlocked)Pub date: 2025-05-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNote: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released January 27th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at

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01:45:22

Stéphane Dufoix: Undoing Coloniality of Knowledge

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2025/05/19

Podcast: العلم والمجتمعEpisode: Stéphane Dufoix: Undoing Coloniality of KnowledgePub date: 2025-05-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationStéphane Dufoixis Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris-Nanterre (Sophiapol research center) and a Senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He also teaches about world sociologies in the doctoral curriculum of the University of Paris and at the EHESS.His research focus includes

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01:26:36

#418 - Sex Is A Spectrum: A Dialogue with Agustín...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #418 - Sex Is A Spectrum: A Dialogue with Agustín FuentesPub date: 2025-05-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Agustín Fuentes about biological sex. They talk about the history of sex evolution, the importance of gametes, intersex individuals, and history of sex binary. They talk about gonads and hormones, sex

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00:46:27

The sexualization of girl power

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2025/05/19

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The sexualization of girl powerPub date: 2025-05-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe early 2000s preached “girl power” to the masses — but that often looked like sex and plastic surgery. Sophie Gilbert, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what coming of age in the early aughts meant for young women in an atmosphere of highly sexualized body

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00:58:15

Josh Cohen & Will Davies: All the Rage

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2025/05/19

Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Josh Cohen & Will Davies: All the RagePub date: 2025-05-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJosh Cohen’s new book, All the Rage (Granta), explores anger, in all its permutations - social media arguments, political divides, road rage, passive aggression – in the words of Deborah Levy, ‘brilliantly investigating what it is when we are enraged’. What should we

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01:26:27

The Oceans as a Commons: everyone’s, no-one’s, or a...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: The Social Contract Research PodcastEpisode: The Oceans as a Commons: everyone’s, no-one’s, or a public good? with Douglas GuilfoylePub date: 2025-05-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this seminar Prof. Douglas Guilfoyle analyzes the oceans as a global commons, detailing the legal frameworks like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) that define maritime zones such as the high seas and exclusive economic zones. He

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00:41:03

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)Pub date: 2025-05-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 1968, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, asserting his control of China 15 years later, Deng Xiaoping launched the reform and opening up period, putting China on the path to becoming an

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00:47:44

Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: EJIL: The Podcast! (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and Technology as a Critical ProjectPub date: 2025-05-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInternational law operates in a world of rapid technological transformation. From the battlefield to the border, from online content moderation to open-source investigation, from humanitarianism to development, from counterterrorism to

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00:56:51

Decadence

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: DecadencePub date: 2025-04-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSome people think we live in an age of decline. Matthew Sweet investigates, with guests including political journalist Tim Stanley, art critic Louisa Buck, Professor Jane Desmarais who is head of the decadence research centre at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Neville Morley, Professor of Classics and

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00:41:05

George Monbiot: 'Farmers need stability and...

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2025/05/19

Podcast: Country Life (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: George Monbiot: 'Farmers need stability and security... Instead, they're contending with chaos'Pub date: 2025-04-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor four four decades, George Monbiot has been one of Britain's strongest voices speaking out on the environment.After starting his career with the BBC, Monbiot is now best known for his books and his weekly column in The

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