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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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01:20:04

Anti-Self-Helpline epsiode 1 w/ Hannah Proctor

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Anti-Self-Helpline epsiode 1 w/ Hannah ProctorPub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHannah Proctor, author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, returns to the podcast to talk through questions and comments submitted by listeners for the first episode of the Anti-Self-Helpline. The Anti-Self-Helpline is a new episode format where listeners

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00:50:35

Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIt has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste

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01:00:25

Orientalism & Edward Said | Professor Nubar Hovsepian

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2025/10/04

Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Orientalism & Edward Said | Professor Nubar HovsepianPub date: 2025-09-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAuthor of "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual," professor Nubar Hovsepian joins us to delve into the nuanced legacy of Edward Said, exploring common misunderstandings of his work, the reception of "Orientalism" within academia, and Said's

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00:30:18

From Invention to Revolution: The Bicycle’s American...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Our American Stories (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: From Invention to Revolution: The Bicycle’s American StoryPub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode of Our American Stories, before cars ruled the roads, the bicycle was America’s great innovation. Known in its early years as the “mechanical horse,” it gave ordinary people freedom of movement and reshaped everything from

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00:42:13

#23 Amber, China & Geological Anthropology w/...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Anthropology on AirEpisode: #23 Amber, China & Geological Anthropology w/ Alessandro RippaPub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, we speak with Alessandro Rippa about amber – a fossilised resin that not only allow us a glimpse into prehistoric lifeforms and climatic conditions millions of years ago but also works as an entry point into understanding current political, scientific, and commercial

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00:07:59

The Story of J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Saved the...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Our American Stories (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Story of J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Saved the Government TwicePub date: 2025-09-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode of Our American Stories, of all the so-called “robber barons,” J.P. Morgan ranks as one of the most maligned. After all, he was one of the most powerful men in American history. At the height of the Gilded Age, he built a

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01:01:09

"No" with Sara Ahmed

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Queer Lit (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: "No" with Sara AhmedPub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur favourite feminist killjoy is back! Sara Ahmed joins me to talk about her brand-new book No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining. In her first ever (how special are we) public conversation about the book, Sara speaks about becoming a feminist ear and a complaint collector,

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00:47:46

How the Cold War made the modern world

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2025/10/04

Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How the Cold War made the modern worldPub date: 2025-09-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor most of the latter half of the 20th century, the world was frozen in a standoff. The Cold War era was defined by the ideological fissure between capitalism, led by the United States, and communism, espoused by the Soviet Union. But in a new book, Vladislav Zubok

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00:30:15

The History of the Secret War in Laos, Part 2

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Asian American History 101 (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: The History of the Secret War in Laos, Part 2Pub date: 2025-09-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Welcome to Season 5, Episode 37! Today we continue with the second part of The History of The Secret War in Laos. We highly recommend going back to listen to Part 1. That’s where you’ll hear about the Cold War motivations behind U.S. involvement in Laos, the rise

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01:22:15

114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie Steele

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Ordinary Unhappiness (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie SteelePub date: 2025-09-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAbby and Patrick welcome Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to discuss her new book, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis, and the exhibition of the same name that opened this

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01:17:24

175. Rethinking Economics - Ethical Justifications of...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: The Henry George School PodcastEpisode: 175. Rethinking Economics - Ethical Justifications of UBIPub date: 2025-09-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday’s conversation was about a topic I’ve covered a few times now: Universal Basic Income (UBI). Most of my work on UBI has been about its benefits, especially how it can be used as a tool for poverty alleviation. And while I think the economic rationale for UBI justifies itself,

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00:49:52

Palantir is Thriving Under Trump w/ Caroline Haskins

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Palantir is Thriving Under Trump w/ Caroline HaskinsPub date: 2025-09-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Caroline Haskins to discuss what Palantir actually does and the growing influence it has within the US government and many large corporations.Caroline Haskins is a staff writer at Wired. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on

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01:26:54

The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia

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2025/10/04

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space UtopiaPub date: 2025-09-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis is the first episode of Cited Podcast’s new season, Green Dreams. Green Dreams tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams for our green future. Should we make those dreams reality, or are they actually nightmares? For

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00:59:58

Landlord Tech

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2025/10/04

Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Landlord TechPub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFacial recognition cameras, tenant screening platforms, digital property management—many landlords use sophisticated technology to monitor and screen tenants. Erin McElroy weighs the impact of so-called proptech on prospective renters, on tenants’ lives and well-being, and on people’s ability to

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00:57:29

37. Center (w/ Mohammad Salemy)

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Disintegrator (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: 37. Center (w/ Mohammad Salemy)Pub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe're joined by Mohammad Salemy, organizer and facilitator of the New Centre for Research and Practice, fierce critic, social media (@inhumansofberlin) hyperstitionist, artist, personality, and force.This episode provides a lot of background into how the New Centre came to be. If you're

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00:27:40

Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data

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2025/10/04

Podcast: The Ongoing Transformation (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of DataPub date: 2025-09-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur new miniseries, Not Now, But Soon, challenges the stories we often tell about disasters, and explores how we can use speculative fiction to create better futures and policies. On our first episode, host Malka Older talks to Steven Gonzalez, an anthropologist of

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00:59:26

Tavia Nyong'o on Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at...

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2025/10/04

Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic TheoryEpisode: Tavia Nyong'o on Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the WorldPub date: 2025-09-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Tavia Nyong’o is the William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University, with award-winning books including The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and

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00:46:16

A History of Women in International Thought |...

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2025/09/20

Podcast: The Economic and Political History PodcastEpisode: A History of Women in International Thought | Patricia Owens with Javier MejiaPub date: 2025-09-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInterview with Patricia Owens, author of 'Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men'The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the

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01:20:08

#444 - The Fall and Rise of the Taliban: A Dialogue...

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2025/09/20

Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #444 - The Fall and Rise of the Taliban: A Dialogue with Jon Lee AndersonPub date: 2025-09-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jon Lee Anderson about the Taliban in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. They provide an overview of Afghanistan, how the Taliban came to power, makeup of the Taliban, their intentions for an

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00:43:07

The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient world

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2025/09/20

Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Amazons: wonder-women of the ancient worldPub date: 2025-09-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf you know anything about the Amazons of ancient legend, it's probably that they were fearsome female fighters, who bravely battled against male heroes of Greek legend. But, according to Professor David Braund, the Amazons were far more than just formidable warrior

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