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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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00:42:08

Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Start the Week (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese artPub date: 2025-05-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn his new book, Blueprints, Marcus du Sautoy traces the connections between mathematics and art and the ways in which creatives use numbers to underpin their work – unconsciously or otherwise. From the earliest stone circles to the unique architecture of Zaha Hadid, du Sautoy shows

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00:59:59

Ariel Dorfman on the Role of Beauty During Times of...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Ariel Dorfman on the Role of Beauty During Times of ChaosPub date: 2025-05-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAriel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina. He is a prominent human rights activist who worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende in the final months before the 1973 military coup, and later spent many years in exile. He

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01:27:13

150 Years of Border Control: The Legacy of the 1875...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Matrix PodcastEpisode: 150 Years of Border Control: The Legacy of the 1875 Page ActPub date: 2025-05-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRecorded on April 23, 2025, this event marked the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875, one of the first federal laws to restrict immigration to the United States — especially Asian immigration, as the law prohibited the importation of Asian contract workers, prostitutes (a provision targeted

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01:32:26

Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 2: Reimagining the...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Upstream (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 2: Reimagining the Family w/ Kristen GhodseePub date: 2025-05-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere is nothing natural about the way we arrange families under capitalism—in fact, there are many who would argue that there is something quite unnatural about narrowing the experience of romance and child-rearing into the rigid form of the nuclear

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01:15:04

Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Acid Horizon (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer Liberation, and the Limits of the Nation with Alexander StoffelPub date: 2025-05-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSupport the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives"Living Currency" syllabus:

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00:59:24

Henri Bergson's Restless World w/ Emily Herring |...

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2025/06/22

Podcast: The Nation Podcasts (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Henri Bergson's Restless World w/ Emily Herring | American PrestigePub date: 2025-05-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek welcome Emily Herring, a writer based in Paris, to the program. They discuss her new book, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. The conversation delves

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00:55:54

Democratic Living in Times of Fascism

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2025/06/22

Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Democratic Living in Times of FascismPub date: 2025-05-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWith H. L. T. Quan and Dylan Rodríguez. This is the final installment of our three-part mini series, 'Beyond the Ballot Box', which explores some of the major political currents in US politics today. Chris Browne and James Kelly are joined by H. L. T. Quan and Dylan Rodríguez

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01:01:21

Jacobin Radio: The Americanization of a Russian...

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2025/06/08

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Jacobin Radio: The Americanization of a Russian Émigré w/ Emil DraitserPub date: 2025-05-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEmil Draitser — Soviet satirist turned American memoirist — joins Suzi to talk about his new book, Laughing All the Way to Freedom: The Americanization of a Russian Émigré. It's a sharp, funny, and moving account of his journey from censorship and

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00:31:51

'The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age...

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2025/06/08

Podcast: The Just Security Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 'The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' Book TalkPub date: 2024-06-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBorders between countries are often dangerous, violent places. From the sands of the Sahel to the islands of the Mediterranean, borders allow governments to define who can enter a country – often deciding whether a person

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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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