show episodes
 
Artwork

1
Chasing Justice

Chasing Justice

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Εβδομαδιαία
 
America Out Loud Network © – Crime, Corruption, Terrorism, Workplace Violence, School Shootings; together we’ll be Chasing Justice on the America Out Loud Network.
  continue reading
 
Questioning Christianity with Tim Keller is a seven-part podcast series for people who are interested in exploring Christianity, brought to you by Gospel in Life. This series will help listeners work through tough questions like: Can there be moral absolutes? Does life have meaning beyond what I make of it? Can hope exist in the face of death? Each of the talks and Q&A sessions were given by Tim Keller in 2019 before a live gathering in New York City, made up primarily of attendees who did n ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Philosophy Audiobooks

Geoffrey Edwards

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Unabridged philosophy audiobooks including writing by Plato (Parmenides), Aristotle (Economics), Cicero (On Moral Duties) and Plotinus (Enneads). Topics discussed include ethics, justice, law, logic, metaphysics, God, happiness, love and beauty. Each book has been streamlined by merging separate LibriVox recordings into a single seamless whole with no interruptions. Painting: La Perle et la vague by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry.
  continue reading
 
Uri L’Tzedek is an Orthodox social justice organization guided by Torah values and dedicated to combating suffering and oppression. Through community-based education, leadership development, and action, Uri L’Tzedek creates discourse, inspires leaders, and empowers the Jewish community towards creating a more just world.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Cleared Hot

Andy Stumpf

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Εβδομαδιαία+
 
It is safe to say that I have wandered a bit. I served in the military, flew some jets, jumped out of most, climbed mountains (I jumped off of them too), taught fitness, owned a gym, and have spent the last few years speaking to organizations and leaders. It has been a journey, and in all honesty, I have no idea where it is going. I seek the things that make me uncomfortable. I move towards things that scare me. I think you should too
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Omelas

Aryaman Varma

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
What role do philosophy and religion play in modern economies? How can the financial sector be used as a force for positive change? Explore these topics and more with Omelas, the podcast shining a light in the dark corners of economics, philosophy, religion and justice.
  continue reading
 
A changing climate presents humanity with only one option: adapt. Join your host, Doug Parsons for America's leading podcast on climate change - America Adapts! Each episode, Doug sits down with scientists, activists, policymakers, and journalists to discuss the tough questions facing this country and the world as we confront humanity's greatest challenge. Question your assumptions, refresh your perspective, and become part of the climate movement that will determine our planet's future, rig ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Robinson's Podcast

Robinson Erhardt

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Εβδομαδιαία+
 
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. https://linktr.ee/robinsonerhardt Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
ellisconversations's podcast

Jamil Ellis and Ronald Ellis

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
In this podcast, Jamil Ellis talks with his father, retired Federal Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis, about the historical role of law in shaping the societal structures which act as barriers to attaining the American dream. They discuss why "legal" is not a synonym for "moral" and why law, a prime actor in creating the problems, can and should be a part of the solution. Join them as they talk about wealth, voting, education, criminal justice and other topics which divide the nation. https://el ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Trauma InJustice

Alison DeBelder and Chris Moser

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Trauma InJustice is a podcast about the ways that people in the criminal justice system confront and manage trauma. It’s also about the ways that training has aided (or failed) them and ought to be improved.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Why? Curve

Phil Dobbie

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Εβδομαδιαία
 
Each week Phil Dobbie and Roger Hearing get to grips with one issue that impacts our lives. It could be economic, social, technological or geopolitical. Whatever the subject, they'll talk to the experts who can give help explain what's really going on. And Phil and Roger back it up with their own research and opinions. It's half an hour to get across one of the key issues of the time, and they promise, it'll never be boring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
  continue reading
 
Artwork
 
Hosted by Lantos Foundation President, Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, The Keeper features in depth conversations about the most pressing matters of human rights and justice around the world and welcomes some of the most important human rights figures of our time as guests.The Keeper takes its name from the personal conviction of the Lantos Foundation's namesake Congressman Tom Lantos, fully lived out in his own life, that we have a moral and ethical obligation to be our brother and sister’s keepe ...
  continue reading
 
If you would like attend one of our events please refer to our website www.social policyconnections.com.au. Please feel free to subscribe to our podcast via itunes or via an RSS feed located on our website’s home page, as we will be publishing podcast regularly, free of charge.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Εβδομαδιαία+
 
True Crimecast is a podcast that adds a unique perspective to the true crime genre. John and Jamie dig into new cases and revisit old ones to try to get to the truth. Each episode takes on a different case and the hosts share both details and theories about what really happened. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crimecast--4106013/support.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Long Hair Philosophy

Joshua White

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Welcome to the Long Hair Philosophy podcast! Come join us as we discuss philosophical meanings in pop culture and explore how philosophers of old still live on today! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joshua-white6/support
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Tested

Dave DeWitt, Leoneda Inge, Will Michaels, Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Jason deBruyn, Rusty Jacobs, Naomi Prioleau, Celeste Gracia, Kamaya Truitt, Anisa Khalifa

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Tested is a hard look at how North Carolina and its neighbors face the day's challenges. Hosted by journalists Dave DeWitt and Leoneda Inge.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
ePODstemology

Mark Fabian

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Medicine for intellectual boredom. Host Dr Mark Fabian of Cambridge University brings together an eclectic mix of creative young folk to discuss the most stimulating ideas at the knowledge frontier, from data governance to the metamodern cultural mode, and everything in between. The world's most thoughtful people, having a chat - and you're invited! So turn off your socials, throw away your popular science books, and get ready for some legit galaxy brain takes. Thanks to Keith Spangle for th ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Talk Too Em Con

Conway

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
My review on sports, entertainment, politics, relationships and everyday life. Even promoting businesses and positive movements in all communities Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talktooemcon/support
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Justice Focus

Omar Phoenix Khan

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
A criminology podcast that focuses on the latest exciting projects happening in criminal justice all over the world. It brings together practitioners, front line staff, NGO workers, academics - basically all those people working passionately and compassionately in criminal justice systems.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Podcast Plus

Bill Shaw

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
People telling their stories 'Excellent podcasts' - Gerard Edwards, CEO, 'Podcast Radio' 'A wonderfully made podcast' - Rob Jelly, Presenter, BBC Essex 'Love it! Great little vignettes of communities of normal people doing good things!' - Tom Fair, Student Radio Association winner, 'Best Podcast', 2020 'Expertly produced' (Kingdom Build) 'Great podcast' (Street Pastors) 'Podcast is excellent...love the format which works really well.' (Harlow foodbank) 'Another excellent podcast' (Parents an ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Justified Anger Podcast

Justified Anger

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Justified Anger, an initiative of Nehemiah, brings you stories and conversations from staff and the community that inspire, educate, and engage toward justice action. The goal is to eliminate racial disparities by provoking moral conscience and directing collective action at the grassroots and systemic levels.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
NEO420 Talks

NEO420 host Profoundly Conscious

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Καθημερινά
 
REAL NEWS + REAL INFORMATION for WE THE PEOPLE 🇺🇸 📜🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸 NEO420 Talks, the podcast "Speaking Truth...against the lies 🙏🏽🇺🇸⚖️"
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Bad Rabbi Media

Rabbi Charlie Buckholtz

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
What does it mean to be a spiritual leader at this critical and chaotic moment in human history? Rabbi Charlie Buckholtz conducts intimate long-form interviews with other rabbis and culture-carriers, change-agents and court-jesters. On topics ranging from spiritual resistance to disorganized religion to Israel/Palestine to creativity to the possibility of individual and collective change, their lively journeys and conversations offer insight, humor, rare perspective and at times rank absurdi ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork
 
Cafe Studios presents Doing Justice, hosted by Preet Bharara. Justice is about doing the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. And it's about making sure that no one is above the law. Doing Justice is CAFE's new narrative podcast, based on host Preet Bharara's bestselling book. In each episode Preet explores the key elements of a case from the unique perspective of the prosecutor whose job it is to grapple with urgent moral and legal questions. Should we allow an elected offi ...
  continue reading
 
Jump into the transformative world of "Words For Change Podcast," a thought-provoking podcast hosted by Rev. Lionel Bailey. Designed for those seeking inspiration and direction, this show delves into the power of change, transformation, and progress in our lives. With every episode, Lionel Bailey, gives his unique blend of spiritual insight and contemporary relevance, sharing stories, and interviews that motivate listeners to embrace positive changes in their personal and communal lives. Roo ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Independent with Scott Atlas

Independent Institute

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Dr. Scott Atlas is a world-renowned expert in health care policy and frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials. He investigates the role of government and the private sector in health care quality and access, global trends in health care innovation, and the key economic and civil liberty issues related to health policy. Sponsored by the Independent Institute, the show features Dr. Atlas in conversation with high profile, news-making guests around public health policy, ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Pre-Occupied

Pre-Occupied

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Zenon and Maddy, two hopelessly lost psychology majors, take listeners on a tour of the many fields of psychology through landmark experiments, pop culture, and interviews with experts in their fields. Whether you're curious about psychology as a career or just want to learn something new about the study of the mind, Pre-Occupied investigates the many disciplines of psych in an accessible, laid-back, and thought-provoking way. And maybe somewhere along the way, Maddy and Zenon will figure ou ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Mental Pod

Fady Attala

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
Personal mediations shared with an audience who are interested in moral excellence and attaining the capability to think constructively. Fady Attala, a 22-year old deep thinker, who isn't a philosopher nor a Stoic, but someone who likes to think deeply in hopes of improving himself as an individual and seek a valourous conduct through working on his personal goals. This is also something he wants to share with everyone including the men in today's "strange" world. I believe that the one way ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
And We Know

And We Know

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Εβδομαδιαία+
 
And We Know is based on Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Focused on Freedom

Charles Simpson Sr.

Unsubscribe
Unsubscribe
Μηνιαία
 
We all have a worldview but only the biblical worldview properly addresses our understanding of morality and right vs wrong. It is only through freedom in Christ Jesus that we are given a heart that allows us to view the world rightly. It’s time to get focused. On this platform my aim is to speak to the culture from a biblical world view that dispels the lies of this world in favor for the truth of God's world. Web - https://freedomfocus.life
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
Dr. Tanya White at Uri L’Tzedek on “‘Yirat Elokim’ – Fearing God as the Development of a Moral Conscience” This shiur explored the idea of ‘yirat elokim’ as the development of moral conscience. Using the Akeida narrative as a framing paradigm it journeys through an exploration of the concept of yirat elokim in Torah including Yosef, the Hebrew midw…
  continue reading
 
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your chi…
  continue reading
 
Protect your investments with And We Know http://andweknow.com/gold Or call 720-605-3900, Tell them “LT” sent you. ————————————————————— *Our AWK Website: https://www.andweknow.com/ *Our 24/7 NEWS SITE: https://thepatriotlight.com/ *DONATIONS SITE: https://bit.ly/2Lgdrh5 *Mail your gift to: And We Know 30650 Rancho California Rd STE D406-123 (or D4…
  continue reading
 
Patreon: https://bit.ly/3v8OhY7 Leonard Susskind is Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Among other accomplishments, he is among the fathers of such revolutionary concepts in physics as string theory, black hole complementarity, the holographic principle, and the string-theoretic landscape. It is this last concept that Robinson…
  continue reading
 
Celebrate, The Savior is Here! Jesus Christ is Alive! Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!! Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom. Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32) ___ The Pledge of Allegiance NEO420 = Real News + Real Information for WE THE PEOPLE WE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!…
  continue reading
 
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today. Fahs collected over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, calling on feminists to act, be defiant and show their rage. This thought-provoking and timely collect…
  continue reading
 
The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space--an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those who live there and those beyond its shore. Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle E…
  continue reading
 
In Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Donald L. Miller explains in great detail how Grant ultimately succeeded in taking the city and turning the tide of the war in favor of the Union. Miller begins his tale with events in Cairo and leads the reader through all the important events that lead to success …
  continue reading
 
You could fill a large library with books about JFK’s assassination. We’ve even touched on the subject here. The topic of the transfer of power from JFK to LBJ, however, has been neglected. I was under the impression that after JFK was pronounced dead, LBJ took an oath and that was that. As Steve Gillon points out in his terrific new The Kennedy As…
  continue reading
 
Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (U Illinois Press…
  continue reading
 
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-d…
  continue reading
 
In an unsettling time in American history, the outbreak of right-wing violence is among the most disturbing developments. In recent years, attacks originating from the far right of American politics have targeted religious and ethnic minorities, with a series of antigovernment militants, religious extremists, and lone-wolf mass shooters inspired by…
  continue reading
 
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural diagnosis that identifies our obsession with complicity as a symptom of a deeply divided society. The questions surrounding what it means to be legally complicit are the same ones we may ask ourselves…
  continue reading
 
Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teach…
  continue reading
 
How can Christians be more encouraged-- Romans 16-21-24 prepares us for the midweek sermon in the prayer meeting. In these four verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that Christians can gain encouragement by honoring those who encourage them, and especially by receiving Christ's own grace.…
  continue reading
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States --- Celebrate, The Savior is Here! Jesus Christ is Alive! Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!! Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom. Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32) ___ The Pledge of Allegiance NEO420 = Real News + Real Information f…
  continue reading
 
Original and deeply researched, The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827 (Cambridge University Press, 2024) provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics,…
  continue reading
 
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna's cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese c…
  continue reading
 
An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…
  continue reading
 
The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which these three famous figures were created - remains largely untold. In Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale, 2019), historian Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The C…
  continue reading
 
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actually not about better choices for all but, rather, about the competition and exclusion that choice engenders—guaranteeing a system of winners and losers? Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioni…
  continue reading
 
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2024) reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts. Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings…
  continue reading
 
In Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2019), Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that ma…
  continue reading
 
In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features,…
  continue reading
 
Operating on the premise that our failure to recognize our interconnected relationship to the rest of the cosmos is the origin of planetary peril, Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019) presents academic, activist, and artistic perspectives on how to inspire reflection and mo…
  continue reading
 
In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In th…
  continue reading
 
How do you handle opposition-- Matthew 10-16-23 prepares us for the morning sermon on the Lord's Day. In these eight verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that Christians should expect opposition, but also the help of Christ, and the effectual power of the gospel.
  continue reading
 
Connect with Dr. Shockley: https://corehealthlabs.com/awk ——————————— *Our AWK Website: https://www.andweknow.com/ *The Patriot Light: https://thepatriotlight.com/ ➜ AWK Shirts and gifts: https://shop.andweknow.com/ *BOWLING BROS: Sons Bowling channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bowling_Bros/videos ————————————————— “I think that if you look at the W…
  continue reading
 
Join our host Marie-Claire Gould (@mariecgould) and co-host Missy (https://www.tumblr.com/allgirlsareprincesses) to deep dive into the mythic motifs of The Acolyte. Join us on Discord, follow us on Twitter, read more on Whattheforce.ca, join the Facebook Group, and follow on Instagram. Also, make sure to subscribe on Youtube for all our Live Stream…
  continue reading
 
As the new Labour government pushes to get the UK economy growing, is it time we became a big manufacturer once again? For decades the driver of the economy has been services, but is that too difficult to sustain? Should we go back to making stuff - this time microprocessors, software, AI programs? Ali Bigdeli, Professor of Industrial Service Innov…
  continue reading
 
Celebrate, The Savior is Here! Jesus Christ is Alive! Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!! Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom. Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32) ___ The Pledge of Allegiance NEO420 = Real News + Real Information for WE THE PEOPLE WE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!…
  continue reading
 
Kendra Sullivan's latest book of poetry, Reps (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024), cycles through a series of operational exercises that gradually enable her to narrate an attempted escape from the trappings of narrativity—plot, character, chronology, and the promise of a probable future issuing forth from a stable past. From deep within a narrowly constr…
  continue reading
 
Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits today at a moment of enormous opportunity. In the wake of the pandemic, a highly visible wave of strikes and new organizing campaigns have driven the popularity of unions to h…
  continue reading
 
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Pei-hua Huang. Dr Pei-hua Huang’s work lies where bioethics and political philosophy intersect. She is interested in the interaction of social issues and medical technologies. She has a special interest in philosophical issues raised by human and moral enhancement technologies and the treatment of morally relevant…
  continue reading
 
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. Playing American: O…
  continue reading
 
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
  continue reading
 
Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024) is the first English-language publication of its k…
  continue reading
 
“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearance—feared by some, desired by others,” writes Thomas Keenan. Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma (DPR Barcelona, June 2024) is about those stories and much mor…
  continue reading
 
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh capt…
  continue reading
 
Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the young Catholic militant as the fruit of fanaticism. Robert Weis's book For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers new insights on how diverse sec…
  continue reading
 
In this week's episode, David and Modya speak with Rebecca Schliser, a core faculty member at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and rabbinical student at Aleph, The Alliance for Jewish Renewal. They explore the middah of silence through the stories in parsha Balak and see how a donkey may be more in tune with the Divine than a human by employin…
  continue reading
 
On what seemed like a normal day in 1988, Laurie Dann set multiple fires around town and took a firearm into a school. Several children were injured and one was killed before Dann took her own life. Today's True Crime To-Go tackles this horrific story, and shares the tale of how actor Jake Johnson narrowly escaped this attack. Become a supporter of…
  continue reading
 
Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Michelle Moffat addresses this oversight by providing a pioneering account of society and culture in wartime Scotland. While significantly illuminating a pivotal episode in Scottish hist…
  continue reading
 
Loading …

Οδηγός γρήγορης αναφοράς