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00:44:10

Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on...

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2025/09/06

Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-08-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationI’m Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, done in partnership with the New Books Network. On this show, we interview authors writing in, around, and about the Asia-Pacific region.How do you tell the story

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00:58:51

Dreaming of Iran: A Conversation with Writer Roya...

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2025/09/05

Podcast: Unpacking Israeli History (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Dreaming of Iran: A Conversation with Writer Roya HakakianPub date: 2025-07-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHost Noam Weissman sits down with acclaimed Iranian-American writer Roya Hakakian to trace the complex and often misunderstood history of Persian Jewry. Roya shares her personal story growing up Jewish in Iran before and after the 1979 Islamic

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00:55:49

Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads...

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2025/09/05

Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads Built the Modern WorldPub date: 2025-08-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday’s pod is about the economic story of the moment. It’s about new technology that supporters claim will transform the U.S. economy, an infrastructure build-out unlike anything in living memory that demands enormous natural

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01:15:53

Yong-Shik Lee, "Law and Development: Theory and...

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2025/09/05

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Yong-Shik Lee, "Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition" (Routledge, 2021)Pub date: 2025-08-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLaw and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2021) examines the theory and practice of law and development. It introduces the General Theory of Law and Development, an innovative approach which explains

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00:43:52

How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world

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2025/09/04

Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How Christianity came to dominate the Roman worldPub date: 2025-08-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat if the 'fall' of Rome wasn’t a collapse, but a rebrand? In this episode, Alice Roberts delves into the dramatic transformation of the Roman world and the rise of Christianity, from cliffside burials in Wales to imperial politics in Constantinople. Speaking to

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01:09:38

How Foreign Governments Influence U.S. Universities

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2025/09/03

Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: How Foreign Governments Influence U.S. UniversitiesPub date: 2025-08-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn an era of globalized education, where ideals of freedom and inquiry should thrive, an alarming trend has emerged: foreign authoritarian regimes influencing American academia. In her new book Authoritarians in the Academy, Sarah McLaughlin reveals how higher

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01:18:44

How to become President of China with Dan Wang

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2025/09/02

Podcast: Works in Progress Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: How to become President of China with Dan WangPub date: 2025-08-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs it better to be run by engineers, lawyers or regulators? Can you build an economy on luxury handbags or do you need advanced manufacturing? Dan Wang, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future discusses why China outbuilds America, how the young

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02:08:33

RWH060: What Buffett, Munger & Bill Miller Taught Me...

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2025/08/30

Podcast: We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: RWH060: What Buffett, Munger & Bill Miller Taught Me w/ Robert HagstromPub date: 2025-08-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, William Green chats with Robert Hagstrom, Chief Investment Officer & Senior Portfolio Manager at Equity Compass. Robert is the author of a classic book, “The Warren Buffett Way,” which lays

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00:58:48

#1140 Will Storr: How to Use the Science of...

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2025/08/29

Podcast: The Dissenter (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #1140 Will Storr: How to Use the Science of Storytelling to Lead, Motivate and PersuadePub date: 2025-08-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization******Support the channel******Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenterPayPal: paypal.me/thedissenterPayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuyPayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9lPayPal

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01:12:26

#980 - David Pinsof - This is Your Brain on Bullsh*t

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2025/08/28

Podcast: Modern Wisdom (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: #980 - David Pinsof - This is Your Brain on Bullsh*tPub date: 2025-08-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Pinsof is a research scientist at UCLA, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, and an author.Everything is bullshit. Your opinions, your arguments, even your thoughts. Most of it’s manufactured, borrowed, or absorbed without question. So if all that’s fake,

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00:51:14

Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani...

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2025/08/27

Podcast: New Books in the Indian Ocean World (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)Pub date: 2025-08-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace (U California Press, 2025) is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean. Here the

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01:14:27

Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet?

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2025/08/26

Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet?Pub date: 2025-08-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIsabelle Boemeke explains how nuclear energy is our best option for ensuring the future of the planet—it can power cities, desalinate water, create carbon-free fertilizer, and heat homes, all with the smallest environmental footprint of any energy source. She

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00:35:27

What Does China's Seismic Economic Progress Mean for...

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2025/08/25

Podcast: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: What Does China's Seismic Economic Progress Mean for the USA? With Dan WangPub date: 2025-08-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerica used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. In a new book, Breakneck, technology analyst Dan Wang provides a new framework for understanding China. It operates as an

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00:47:10

The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality...

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2025/08/24

Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality For the WorsePub date: 2025-08-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAccording to analysis by Financial Times writer John Burn-Murdoch, something extraordinary has happened to Americans’ personalities in the last decade. Longitudinal tests indicate that we’ve collectively become less extroverted, less

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00:39:17

Keeping America's Auto Industry Running ft. Adam Ozimek

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2025/08/23

Podcast: The New Liberal Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Keeping America's Auto Industry Running ft. Adam OzimekPub date: 2025-08-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEvery knows that the US auto industry is in decline... or is it? Adam Ozimek joins the podcast to discuss the real state of America's auto manufacturers, how it responded to challenges from Japan and other countries, how labor unions changed the geography of

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01:00:12

306. Walk a Viking battlefield and discover a...

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2025/08/22

Podcast: The Plodcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 306. Walk a Viking battlefield and discover a forgotten turning point in English history - with Rupert GavinPub date: 2025-07-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAbout 1150 years ago, on a ridge on the edge of Salisbury Plain, the Saxons defeated the Vikings in a battle that had a profound impact on the history of the English people and their language. And yet, the battle is

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01:03:08

Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt,...

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2025/08/21

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-08-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity.Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile,

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00:57:38

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence...

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2025/08/20

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy RealitiesPub date: 2025-08-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAnnie Jacobsen has a favorite word for America's nuclear doctrine: madness. It's madness that any single person has six minutes to decide the fate of civilization, madness that we've built weapons capable of ending the world in 72

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01:02:20

Herman Pontzer – The Surprising Science of Human...

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2025/08/18

Podcast: How To Academy Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Herman Pontzer – The Surprising Science of Human Diversity and EvolutionPub date: 2025-08-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAs an evolutionary anthropologist working with human populations around the globe, Herman Pontzer has conducted research that reveals the wonder of our species's evolution and our biological diversity, documenting the connections between

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01:15:45

The underrated economics of land with Mike Bird

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2025/08/18

Podcast: Works in Progress Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The underrated economics of land with Mike BirdPub date: 2025-08-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhy is Chinese housing so expensive despite being oversupplied? How did land reforms in Russia lead to the Bolshevik revolution? What killed Georgism? The Economist’s Wall Street Editor, Mike Bird, discusses the underrated economics of land.You can preorder Mike's

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