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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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01:23:59

How Western Ignorance Has Been Plundering Africa /...

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2025/10/24

Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: How Western Ignorance Has Been Plundering Africa / Bronwen EverillPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBronwen Everill joins This Is Hell! to talk about her new book "Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance”, published by The New Press. https://thenewpress.org/authors/bronwen-everill/?v=eb65bcceaa5fWe will have new installments of Rotten History and

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00:57:23

E229 - How The Simpsons Reshaped American Comedy w/...

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2025/10/24

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E229 - How The Simpsons Reshaped American Comedy w/ Alan SiegelPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip the ads and get much more content. Don’t forget to vote for AP in the 2025 Signal Awards! In a break from the (overtly) political, Derek and Danny are joined by The Ringer’s Alan Siegel to talk about his new book Stupid TV: Be More

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00:45:56

The Texas roots of America's far right

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2025/10/24

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Texas roots of America's far rightPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization To find the most reliably conservative area of the United States, look no further than West Texas. Jeff Roche, professor of American history at the College of Wooster in Ohio, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how “cowboy conservativism” spread across the nation, its origins in

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00:20:25

Geomythology, Folklore, & the Environment

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2025/10/24

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Geomythology, Folklore, & the EnvironmentPub date: 2025-10-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGuest: Adrienne Mayor is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University. She is the author of many books, including The Poison King (a finalist for the National Book Award), The Amazons, and her latest, Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of

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00:27:21

Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons

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2025/10/24

Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to IconsPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWith their pleated skirts and bowler hats the “cholita” women are a common sight in Bolivia’s administrative capital La Paz. They’re often from indigenous Aymara and Quechua cultures. Until recently cholita was used as a derogatory term to talk about their distinctive

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00:55:01

The Gilded Rage of Tech Billionaires w/ Jacob Silverman

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Gilded Rage of Tech Billionaires w/ Jacob SilvermanPub date: 2025-10-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Jacob’s new book Gilded Rage, which explores the radicalization of Silicon Valley leaders, who are exerting their growing influence to shape our society for the worse. Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist

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00:26:15

FreshEd #402 – What do tax cuts really mean? ...

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2025/10/24

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #402 – What do tax cuts really mean? (Melinda Cooper)Pub date: 2025-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday we explore tax cuts as a form of government expenditure and what that means for social inequality, politics, and government services. My guest is Melinda Cooper. Melinda Cooper is a professor in the School of Sociology in the Colelge of Arts & Social Sciences at

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00:30:24

[OVERSHOOT] Part 2: Carbon Suckers

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Macrodose (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: [OVERSHOOT] Part 2: Carbon SuckersPub date: 2025-10-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWho’s going to clean up the mess?Dangerous amounts of carbon have been dumped in the atmosphere - so someone has to clean up the mess. Enter the dream - or delusion - of sucking carbon out of the sky. We trace how a backup plan for tackling climate change became plan A, why fossil fuel

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01:10:03

The Battle Over Civil Society

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Unpopular Front PodcastEpisode: The Battle Over Civil SocietyPub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn conjunction with Dissent magazine, I spoke to UC Berkeley sociologist Dylan Riley, author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe, about civil society, democracy, and fascism today. You can continue reading the abridged and much-cleaned-up version of the interview below on the Dissent site, or you can listen to

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00:36:28

Leigh Claire La Berge on Why Capitalism Might Be A Joke

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Leigh Claire La Berge on Why Capitalism Might Be A JokePub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf you work at a so-called laptop job, there are moments every day when your work feels silly, pointless, absurd, even fake. What if you wrote an entire book that tried to inhabit and analyze that very feeling? Leigh Claire LaBerge’s

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00:25:28

Cannibalism at the Siege of Sancerre with Amanda Coate

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2025/10/24

Podcast: The French History Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Cannibalism at the Siege of Sancerre with Amanda CoatePub date: 2025-09-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen there's nothing left to eat, the French begin eating each other: a special episode on cannibalism by Amanda Coate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Evergreen Podcasts,

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01:08:20

Jacqueline Rose & Yasmin El-Rifae: Women in Dark Times

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2025/10/24

Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Jacqueline Rose & Yasmin El-Rifae: Women in Dark TimesPub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWomen in Dark Times (Fitzcarraldo) begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women blazes a trail across some of the defining

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00:28:39

4.7 Emily Cousens on the Materialist Trans Feminist...

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2025/10/24

Podcast: Hopkins Press PodcastsEpisode: 4.7 Emily Cousens on the Materialist Trans Feminist Potential in Monique Wittig’s Non-FictionPub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday we are talking with Emily Cousens, who is an assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Northeastern University, London, and their expertise focuses on trans feminist philosophy and history. They are also the UK lead for the Digital

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01:01:10

Nonbinary Jane Austen

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2025/10/24

Podcast: University of Minnesota PressEpisode: Nonbinary Jane AustenPub date: 2025-09-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationChris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generic restraints of the novel and envisions a nonbinary future that traverses the two-sex model of gender that supposedly

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00:45:03

The lost history of ‘Black girl magic’

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2025/10/24

Podcast: KERA's Think (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The lost history of ‘Black girl magic’Pub date: 2025-09-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe phrase “Black girl magic” has deep roots in enslaved women’s lives. Lindsey Stewart is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the medicine that stemmed from African traditions that was often more trusted than white

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00:51:48

Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity:...

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2025/10/24

Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGender Violence in Late Antiquity confronts the violent ideological frameworks underpinning the early Christian imagination, arguing that gender-based violence is not peripheral but is

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00:30:46

From the SpyCast Vault: An Assassination in Mexico

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2025/10/24

Podcast: SpyCast (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: From the SpyCast Vault: An Assassination in MexicoPub date: 2025-09-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKeith Melton is a historian who’s been an advisor to the US Intelligence Community for decades. An avid collector and board member at The International Spy Museum, Keith has donated thousands of artifacts, and one of the most historically important is the axe used to assassinate

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01:21:10

Tiokasin Ghosthorse on Indigenous Language,...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: The Critical Social Worker: A Revolutionary Storytelling PodcastEpisode: Tiokasin Ghosthorse on Indigenous Language, Disconnection, and Returning to EarthPub date: 2025-09-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEpisode 67 of The Critical Social Worker: A Revolutionary Storytelling PodcastGuest: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Cheyenne River Lakota Nation)Tiokasin Ghosthorse is an educator, musician, and founder of First Voices Radio. For more than

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01:00:06

African-American Ideas about Race (with Mia Bay)

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: African-American Ideas about Race (with Mia Bay)Pub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAfter the founding of the American Republic, African-American Intellectuals never accepted passively the narratives of racial difference maintained by the defenders of slavery and segregation. At a time when the belief in human equality was

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01:17:33

State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader

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2025/10/04

Podcast: The Dig (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart SchraderPub date: 2025-09-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFeaturing Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism already immanent in the US carceral and imperialist state

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