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Podcast: Think from KERA (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The olds are in charge, and it’s not goodPub date: 2026-05-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe country is run by senior citizens, and their control is transforming the nation. Samuel Moyn is Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University and author of “Gerontocracy in...

Podcast: AMSEcastEpisode: The Secrets of Gravity: AMSEcast with James RiordonPub date: 2026-03-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of AMSEcast, host Alan Lowe welcomes back science journalist and NASA senior science writer James Riordon to discuss his new book Crush: Close Encounters With Gravity. Riordon explores the fascinating...

Podcast: The Joe Walker Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: "Bigger and Different": The Six Decades That Remade Australia — Mark Cully [Immigration Series]Pub date: 2026-05-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPart 2 of a three-part immigration series this week. Martin Parkinson (economics) available here; Mike Pezzullo (acculturation,...

Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Babylon, a City for the Ages: Interview with Professor Lloyd Llewelyn-JonesPub date: 2026-03-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe city of Babylon has appeared in our episodes time and again over the past several years: as the center of empires, a victim of vicious conquest, a...

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Alexander the Great: God, King, Man.Pub date: 2026-05-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Edmund Richardson, author of a new biography of Alexander the Great called Alexander: God, King, Man. Edmund tells me why there is still a fresh story...

Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Rise and Fall of VenicePub date: 2026-05-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationVenice was the impossible city that rose from mudflats to become a medieval superpower. Venice dominated Mediterranean trade through its vast navy, revolutionary shipyards, and strategic position...

Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the ProfessorPub date: 2017-11-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow did the friendship between David Hume and Adam Smith influence their ideas? Why do their ideas still matter today? Political Scientist Dennis Rasmussen of Tufts...

Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)Pub date: 2026-05-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a populist revolt...

Podcast: Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Wrong numbers and why they survive, with Aaron BrownPub date: 2026-05-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPatrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Aaron Brown, author of Wrong Number, to examine why institutions that produce bad statistics face so few...

Podcast: The Joe Walker Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: "We've built an economy that requires 2 million temporary migrants" — Martin Parkinson [Immigration Series]Pub date: 2026-05-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPart 1 of a three-part immigration series this week. Mark Cully (history) drops Thursday; Mike Pezzullo...