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The Atheist Nun

Kaitlyn Bankson

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Welcome to The Atheist Nun Channel! A show aimed to inspire readers to cherish the most meaningful moments found in life by learning about secular morality. Subscribe for more content on aspects of my business and writing life as well as topics concerning ethics, mid-nineteenth-century living, etiquette, and much more. My Business Website - https://americanwordsmith.com My Author Website - https://kaitlynlansing.com
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The 1950s Science Fiction Podcast is a show that delves into the world of mid-twentieth-century science fiction, covering movies, TV shows, radio dramas, and literature. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edward-franklin-german/support
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Would you like to know more about the backgrounds and histories behind today's news? Subscribe to keepingdemocracyalive.com to find out the whys of where we are. Also interviews with authors of new non-fiction books. From a left perspective. Entertaining and educational twice weekly one hour shows since 2004.
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Welcome to your specialty bookstore! We cater to readers of new releases in non-fiction print books. Architecture, history, travel, photography, and more. We have a number of exciting authors lined up to chat with us in each podcast. Join us to hear the authors online! Then, buy their books here, www.midcenturybooks.net
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Fixbayonets.us

Mark Flowers

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My goal is to tell stories that you won't usually find in history books. My passion is military history, and I've been studying for nearly sixty years. I tell stories about people caught up in war; the men and women at the sharp end of the spear. My podcasts support my work and provide an avenue to present more content about America's wars in the mid- to late-20th century.
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Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word ‘hypnotism’ was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the mid-to-late nineteenth century that it became a particularly fashionable way to explore the human mind. Although understanding of the subject has evolved considerably over subsequent years, this book remains a fascinating insight into a technique once thou ...
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Capehart

The Washington Post

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Opinion writer Jonathan Capehart talks with newsmakers who challenge your ideas on politics, and explore how race, religion, age, gender and cultural identity are redrawing the lines that both divide and unite America. "Capehart" is a podcast from Washington Post Opinions, with conversations adapted from Washington Post Live events.
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The "Wild Bill Hickock" radio show was an American old-time radio program that dramatized the adventures of the historical figure James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, a folk hero of the American Old West known for his skills as a scout, lawman, gunfighter, and gambler. The show aired from 1951 to 1956, capturing the imaginations of listeners with tales of the frontier.Here are some key aspects of the show: Main Characters and Format: The central character was Wild Bill Hickok, voiced by actor Gu ...
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Keeping democracy alive Democracy is not a spectator sport, it requires informed participating citizens. On Keeping Democracy Alive, we delve into dynamics that both inhibit democracy and reinvigorate it. looking into issues from: domestic economic issues to foreign, labor, trade, and education policy, NSA spying, the drug war, prison, police, and judicial issues, electoral and protest politics, middle east realities, right and left wing populism, environmental and energy issues, the wealth ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned during the mid 19th century as a philosopher, writer, public orator, naturalist and spiritual trailblazer. The essays collected for this podcast represent some of the best examples of this great American thinker's work. For more educational audio and video, please visit www.learnoutloud.com.
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Black Existentialism

John E. Drabinski

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Podcasted process pieces from my course Black Existentialism. The course introduces one of the most important and potent mid-century intellectual movements - the existentialist movement - through a series of black Atlantic thinkers. Our keystone will be Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, which is arguably the most important work of Black existentialism from this period. Across the semester we will see why existentialism, with its focus on the ambiguities and ambivalences of lived-experi ...
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Among the many ideas explored in this book are beauty, gardens, honor and reputation, cunning, nobility, friendship and many others. Authored by the man who is credited with having invented the essay form in English, The Essays of Francis Bacon was written over an extended period, ranging from the mid sixteenth century. They were compiled in a single edition in 1597 and later re-written, enlarged and added to in other editions in 1612 and 1625. However, their compelling and insightful qualit ...
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Ruins of Empire

City of Geeks

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Like all great empires, the global society of the mid-twenty-first century collapsed. The moons and planets terraformed and colonialized during that golden age were cut off from Civilization. The people left on those far-flung worlds were forced to survive by themselves as the light of the greatest society humans ever created, dimmed, and faded to nothing. It is the year 3010, and humans have returned to the stars. Ruins of Empire follows a group of explorers reaching out to discover hidden ...
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Colonialism: Now it’s called corporate globalization. As the energy appetite of the west continues to accelerate, so does extractivism, without the consent of the people directly affected. In this revealing discussion, Professor Avi Chomsky explodes the many myths we white The post Avi Chomsky: 21st Century Colonialism and Extractivism appeared fir…
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Colonialism: Now it’s called corporate globalization. As the energy appetite of the west continues to accelerate, so does extractivism, without the consent of the people directly affected. In this revealing discussion, Professor Avi Chomsky explodes the many myths we white The post Avi Chomsky: 21st Century Colonialism and Extractivism appeared fir…
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On the heels of the recent historic prisoner trade releasing several Americans and other individuals from Russian prisons, we revisit this conversation from Washington Post Live's World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, as Jonathan Capehart speaks with Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Clayton Weimers, executive director …
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The ideal breeding ground for the Covid virus: A place where people were forced to have constant close contact with each other and with the wider community. In other words: prisons. You know how awful it was for us on The post Jails and Prisons Were a Hotbed of Covid. Needlessly. appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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The ideal breeding ground for the Covid virus: A place where people were forced to have constant close contact with each other and with the wider community. In other words: prisons. You know how awful it was for us on The post Jails and Prisons Were a Hotbed of Covid. Needlessly. appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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We were taught in elementary school that every vote counts in America. But as we all know the 2016 winner of the popular vote did not become president. The truth is the presidential candidates will spend a billion dollars this The post Make the Winner of the Popular Vote President appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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We were taught in elementary school that every vote counts in America. But as we all know the 2016 winner of the popular vote did not become president. The truth is the presidential candidates will spend a billion dollars this The post Make the Winner of the Popular Vote President appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield joins The Post's Jonathan Capehart for a conversation about Sudan’s hunger and displacement crisis, the underlying conflict of the country’s civil war and the response from the international community.Conversation recorded on Tuesday, July 30, 2024.…
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Make America great “again?” What does that phrase assume? Our guest today, retired Lt Col. William Astore served 20 years in the military. No, he’s not a stereotypical macho militarist, far from it. He says our “full spectrum global empire” The post The Term “MAGA” Acknowledges US Empire is Over appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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Make America great “again?” What does that phrase assume? Our guest today, retired Lt Col. William Astore served 20 years in the military. No, he’s not a stereotypical macho militarist, far from it. He says our “full spectrum global empire” The post The Term “MAGA” Acknowledges US Empire is Over appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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We assume our picture of romance and marriage has always been there, but according to our guest author and professor Sabrina Strings, it was invented in the 12th century as a myth about Sir Lancelot. Marriage was about power, domination, The post White Male Supremacists Fear and Hate it But “Romance” and Nuclear Families Aren’t the Only Option appe…
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We assume our picture of romance and marriage has always been there, but according to our guest author and professor Sabrina Strings, it was invented in the 12th century as a myth about Sir Lancelot. Marriage was about power, domination, The post White Male Supremacists Fear and Hate it But “Romance” and Nuclear Families Aren’t the Only Option appe…
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Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxhzlWsl0o&ab_channel=AdamSmasher; https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100308948#:~:text=Pascal's%20wager%20the%20argument%20that,any%20advantage%20in%20believing%20otherwise.; https://www.radiohalloffame.com/michael-savage; https://theobjectivestandard.com/2016/11/ayn-rands-i…
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There is a palpable movement under Kamala Harris; so why is party leadership still so out of touch with working people as they were in 2016? Our returning guest, veteran party insider Norman Solomon, says the DNC is still top-down The post Dems Need the Middle Class: Why is the DNC Still So Corporatized? appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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There is a palpable movement under Kamala Harris; so why is party leadership still so out of touch with working people as they were in 2016? Our returning guest, veteran party insider Norman Solomon, says the DNC is still top-down The post Dems Need the Middle Class: Why is the DNC Still So Corporatized? appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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As she sets the stage for her presidential campaign in the upcoming 2024 election, we revisit this conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris from 2019 as she sat down with Jonathan Capehart to discuss her memoir, upbringing and career in front of a live audience on the campus of George Washington University. Conversation recorded on Jan. 9, 20…
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As Trump heads into the 2024 campaign, you might wonder who is behind it, who benefits from destroying our republic. Here is the story. The religious nationalists see him as a fierce leader. They believe God sends such kings to The post What’s Behind Trumpism: The Open Attack on Democracy appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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As Trump heads into the 2024 campaign, you might wonder who is behind it, who benefits from destroying our republic. Here is the story. The religious nationalists see him as a fierce leader. They believe God sends such kings to The post What’s Behind Trumpism: The Open Attack on Democracy appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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In a special expanded edition of First Look, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) talked about Vice President Kamala Harris’s White House campaign, possibilities for her running mate and the political dynamic in his home state. Next, Post reporters and columnists discussed where the presidential contest goes from here and offered perspectives on a historic and u…
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It’s not high on people’s reason to choose a president, but the power of pardons today is often corrupt and the promise of a pardon has been known to encourage crimes. In this discussion of her forthcoming book, Law Professor The post The Power of Pardons and Democracy appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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It’s not high on people’s reason to choose a president, but the power of pardons today is often corrupt and the promise of a pardon has been known to encourage crimes. In this discussion of her forthcoming book, Law Professor The post The Power of Pardons and Democracy appeared first on Keeping Democracy Alive.…
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