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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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00:45:53

The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis

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2025/11/18

Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia MenemenlisPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSofia Menemenlis joins PTO to chat about her recent article in The Breakdown on the concept and history of solar geoengineering - or “solar radiation management" as it has become known. We talked about how the implementation of SRM is imagined, what the potentially

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00:43:59

Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'

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2025/11/18

Podcast: Fresh Air (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Richard Linklater: 'Filmmaking Is Problem Solving'Pub date: 2025-11-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFilmmaker Richard Linklater doesn't speak French, but that didn't stop him from directing a movie that's almost entirely in French. ‘Nouvelle Vague’ focuses on the beginning of the New Wave of cinema, specifically Jean-Luc Godard and his landmark 1960 movie ‘Breathless.’ "I

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01:00:04

Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando Haddad

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2025/11/18

Podcast: The Dig (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Brazil and the World System w/ Fernando HaddadPub date: 2025-11-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFeaturing Fernando Haddad on Brazilian political economy and where Brazil fits into a world capitalist system structured by relationships of domination and unequal exchange. Haddad is Finance Minister of Brazil. He served as mayor of São Paulo and in 2018 was the Workers’ Party (PT)

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00:51:28

Episode 243: The curious case of Soviet bus stops

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2025/11/18

Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 243: The curious case of Soviet bus stopsPub date: 2025-11-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this week’s episode of Talk Eastern Europe, Adam, Alexandra, and Nina come together to discuss the ongoing Serbian protests and explore the latest European Union reports on the progress of candidate countries, including those from our region. They also unpack the

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01:12:57

Paul B. Preciado & Nathalie Olah: Dysphoria Mundi

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2025/11/18

Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Paul B. Preciado & Nathalie Olah: Dysphoria MundiPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWith Testo Junkie, Pornotopia, An Apartment in Uranus and Can the Monster Speak, Paul B. Preciado became established as one of the most exciting and challenging social thinkers of our time. His latest book Dysphoria Mundi (Fitzcarraldo), a mutant text

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00:49:49

Political Conflict in the History of France | Julia...

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2025/11/18

Podcast: The Economic and Political History PodcastEpisode: Political Conflict in the History of France | Julia Cagé with Javier MejiaPub date: 2025-11-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInterview with Julia Cagé, co-author with Thomas Piketty of 'A History of Political Conflict: Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789–2022'Who votes for whom and why? Cagé and Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000

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00:44:53

The Dramatic Story of Nigerian Modernism

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2025/11/18

Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Dramatic Story of Nigerian ModernismPub date: 2025-11-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNigerian modern art is having a moment. In London, the Tate has opened a critically acclaimed exhibition, called “Nigerian Modernism,” featuring more than 50 artists who experimented with vibrant new styles in the mid 20th century in the giant and influential West African nation

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01:00:58

Why Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the Planet

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2025/11/18

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Why Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the PlanetPub date: 2025-11-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Connor O'Brien, a PhD Candidate at University of Cambridge researching a conceptual history of good governance and sovereign debt.They discussed a little-known tool for climate finance called "debt for nature swaps". While they

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01:05:30

On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England...

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2025/11/18

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?Pub date: 2025-10-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAndy Burnham recently said that the government is ‘in hock to the bond markets’, and the political turbulence of the past few years, not least the downfall of Liz Truss following her ‘mini-budget’, would seem to back this up. But the bond markets are only

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00:38:56

Halloween special: AI and modern monsters

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Halloween special: AI and modern monstersPub date: 2025-10-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationZombies, werewolves and...ChatGPT?In this week’s spooky special, Ellen and Alona are joined by historian and “monster consultant” Surekha Davies, who argues that humans have always created monsters to understand the world—and ourselves.In her new book Humans: A Monstrous

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01:20:50

How William F. Buckley Invented Modern Conservatism

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Cornell Keynotes (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: How William F. Buckley Invented Modern ConservatismPub date: 2025-10-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWatch the video recording of this Keynote here on YouTube.In the space of a single generation (1950 to 1980), the journalist and author William F. Buckley led a small band of little-known conservatives to the peaks of political power and cultural influence.Ten years

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01:00:16

Margaret J. Wiener on Magic's Translation: Reality...

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic TheoryEpisode: Margaret J. Wiener on Magic's Translation: Reality Politics in Colonial IndonesiaPub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDr. Margaret J. Wiener is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali (University of Chicago Press) won the 1995 Victor Turner Prize for

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00:26:59

A Biography of Earth Across the Age of Animals

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Quanta Podcast (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: A Biography of Earth Across the Age of AnimalsPub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThanks to a delicate interplay between plate tectonics and life, Earth’s thermostat has kept animal life thriving on our planet for half a billion years. On this week’s episode, host Samir Patel speaks with contributing writer Peter Brannen about our planetary highs and

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00:21:57

Sam Dalrymple: creating modern nations

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Saturday Morning (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Sam Dalrymple: creating modern nationsPub date: 2025-10-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSam Dalrymple's debut book explores the collapse of the Indian Empire and how five major partitions between 1931 and 1971 created twelve modern nations.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from RNZ, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed

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00:58:51

The Day of the Triffids: Wyndham vs Sci-Fi Spectacle

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Day of the Triffids: Wyndham vs Sci-Fi SpectaclePub date: 2025-10-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere are spoilers ahead for all versions of The Day of the Triffids and also for the film Signs. You can follow the podcast on social media on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky. If you would like to be a patron of the podcast you can join Patreon and for £3

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00:41:39

Episode 242: The end of Pax Americana and what comes...

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Talk Eastern Europe (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 242: The end of Pax Americana and what comes nextPub date: 2025-10-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of Talk Eastern Europe co-hosts Adam Reichardt and Aleksandra Karpi discuss the latest developments across the region, from Lithuania’s border closure with Belarus to new US sanctions on Russian oil giants and Hungary’s political shifts ahead

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00:58:34

The Troubling History of Texas Eugenics w/ Dr....

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Troubling History of Texas Eugenics w/ Dr. Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf (G&R 433)Pub date: 2025-10-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn our latest episode, we talk with Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf about their new book "The Purifying Knife" and the history of eugenics in Texas and beyond. Bios//Dr. Michael Phillips

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00:56:09

S03E50 - Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism I

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2025/11/08

Podcast: Future Histories (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: S03E50 - Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism IPub date: 2025-10-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAaron Benanav discusses the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.SASE - Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics: https://sase.org/ SASE Network I:

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01:01:21

E332 - ICE and the Age of Grift w/ Alex Aviña

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2025/11/08

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: E332 - ICE and the Age of Grift w/ Alex AviñaPub date: 2025-10-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubscribe now to skip the ads and get much more content! Alex Aviña is back on the podcast, this time to talk about the evolution of ICE and the U.S. security state. They discuss the convergence of the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the war on migrants; the

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00:44:42

The Art of the Longread ft. Peter Rubin

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2025/11/08

Podcast: The Study Hall Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Art of the Longread ft. Peter RubinPub date: 2025-10-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPeter Rubin is head of publishing at Automattic and an editor at Longreads, a website that curates longform stories and publishes original writing. In this conversation with host Daniel Spielberger, Peter chats about the art of the longread, internet curation during the

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