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01:04:15

#093 - George Owers - Britain's 350-Year Culture War:...

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2025/09/29

Podcast: Thinking Class (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: #093 - George Owers - Britain's 350-Year Culture War: The Birth Of Party PoliticsPub date: 2025-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGeorge Owers is an editor, writer, and author of the newly released The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain. In this episode, George and I think out loud about the origins of party politics in Britain, tracing how the

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00:51:07

David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the...

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2025/09/28

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf StatesPub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom's unlikely rise. Tyler and David discuss why Wahhabism was essential for Saudi

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01:01:50

647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by...

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2025/09/27

Podcast: Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: 647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.Pub date: 2025-09-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn his new book “Breakneck,” Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.” We have questions. SOURCES:Dan Wang, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, author of

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01:13:24

Benedict Evans: The Patterns Everyone Else Misses

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2025/09/26

Podcast: The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Benedict Evans: The Patterns Everyone Else MissesPub date: 2025-09-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBenedict Evans has been calling tech shifts for decades. Now he says forget the hype: AI isn't the new electricity. It's the biggest change since the iPhone, and that's plenty big enough.We talk about why everyone gets platform shifts wrong,

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00:55:30

David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A...

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2025/09/26

Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationImagine this: You’re walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You’re the

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00:44:16

Why So Few Births? | Steven Davis, Claudia Goldin |...

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2025/09/24

Podcast: Economics, AppliedEpisode: Why So Few Births? | Steven Davis, Claudia Goldin | Hoover InstitutionPub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationClaudia Goldin joins Steven Davis to discuss the “The Downside of Fertility,” her essay presented at the 2025 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. She offers an explanation for why fertility rates fell around the world as women gained greater agency in multiple domains (marriage,

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01:02:34

56. Foucault was ALWAYS a Libertarian - Mark Pennington

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2025/09/24

Podcast: The Rasheed Griffith ShowEpisode: 56. Foucault was ALWAYS a Libertarian - Mark PenningtonPub date: 2025-09-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSend us a textWhat if the most subversive libertarian of the twentieth century wasn’t Hayek or Nozick, but Michel Foucault? In this episode, Rasheed and Mark Pennington dismantle the worn-out cliché of Foucault as the Left’s philosopher of suspicion and instead expose how his late work aligns

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00:57:36

#443 - A Concise History of Islam: A Dialogue with...

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2025/09/23

Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #443 - A Concise History of Islam: A Dialogue with John TolanPub date: 2025-09-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with John Tolan about the history of Islam. The give an overview of Islam, discuss the Prophet Muhammad, succession and split after his death, Umayyad caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate, and 3 caliphates of 1000 AD

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01:05:05

How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with...

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2025/09/21

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)Pub date: 2025-09-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerican manufacturing of aircraft during WWII dwarfed that of its enemies. By the end of the war, an American assembly line was producing a B-24 bomber in less than an hour. But that success was far from inevitable. Structural engineer and writer Brian Potter

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00:48:36

#1149 Sean McMeekin: The Rise and Fall and Rise of...

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2025/09/20

Podcast: The Dissenter (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: #1149 Sean McMeekin: The Rise and Fall and Rise of CommunismPub date: 2025-09-12Get 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 Subscription 5 Dollars:

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00:42:38

Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An...

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2025/09/20

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An Ancient SuperpowerPub date: 2025-09-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSam Leith’s guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Andrew Bayliss, author ofSparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower. Andrew tells Sam what we know — and don't know – about these much-mythologised figures from the Ancient world and tells the

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01:39:28

#992 - Dr Sarah Hill - The Period Brain: How Hormones...

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2025/09/18

Podcast: Modern Wisdom (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: #992 - Dr Sarah Hill - The Period Brain: How Hormones Change Women’s BehaviourPub date: 2025-09-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDr Sarah Hill is a professor at TCU, a research psychologist, expert in women’s hormones and brain science, and an author. Each month, women experience hormonal changes that go far beyond the clichés of PMS. These shifts can influence mood,

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00:35:03

Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era...

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2025/09/17

Podcast: International HorizonsEpisode: Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s WorldPub date: 2025-05-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews historian Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars (W.W. Norton, 2023). Zahra reflects on the historical parallels between the current backlash against

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01:16:51

Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans

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2025/09/16

Podcast: Works in Progress Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice EvansPub date: 2025-09-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSocial scientist Alice Evans talks about why, despite a superficially similar feminist movement in East Asia, Western feminism has been much successful. Alice, Sam and Aria talk about dating markets, drinking culture at work, top-down media control, and what

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00:57:07

America in the Age of Diagnosis

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2025/09/15

Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: America in the Age of DiagnosisPub date: 2025-09-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerica is sicker than ever. That’s what the data says, anyway.Psychological and psychiatric diagnoses have soared. Between the 1990s and the mid-2000s, bipolar disorder among American youth grew by a factor of 40, while the number of children diagnosed with ADHD

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00:53:25

Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and...

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2025/09/14

Podcast: Asian Review of Books (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPartition—the rapid, uncoordinated, and bloody split between India and Pakistan after the Second World War—remains the central event of South Asian history. But 1947 wasn’t the only partition, according to

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01:09:31

Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong...

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2025/09/13

Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInequality in the workplace impacts all areas of our lives, from health and self-development to economic security and family life. But, despite the world's richest countries'

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01:05:58

BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"

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2025/09/12

Podcast: C-SPAN Bookshelf (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"Pub date: 2025-08-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHistorian Jay Winik first appeared on the Booknotes television program 24 years ago to discuss his book, "April 1865." It became a #1 New York Times bestseller, reportedly read by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and many others. It's the narrative story of the Civil War. For his latest

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01:16:33

Dan Wang on Modern China

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2025/09/11

Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Dan Wang on Modern ChinaPub date: 2025-08-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDan Wang at long last makes his solo ChinaTalk debut! We’re here to discuss and celebrate his first book, Breakneck.We get into… Engineering states vs lawyerly societies, The competing legacies of the 1980s in China, the decade which saw brutal repression via the One Child Policy and Tiananmen

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00:40:01

Sole Survivor: 8 days in the jungle after my plane...

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2025/09/10

Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Sole Survivor: 8 days in the jungle after my plane crashedPub date: 2025-09-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow a romantic getaway ended in disaster.Dutch financier Annette Herfkens boarded Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 in November 1992, embarking on what was meant to be a romantic break with her fiancé Willem van der Pas or ‘Pasje’. But fate had other plans. Midway

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