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With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks...

Off ScriptConversations that go deeper than the surfaceOff Script is a long-form conversation podcast hosted by Adam Brooks (@adambrux), created for moments when the usual answers aren’t enough.This is a space for honesty, reflection, and depth. Conversations about identity, purpose, pressure, leadership, conviction, and the moments that quietly redefine the course of a life. The stories we tell ourselves. The warnings we ignore. The ones we finally listen to.Faith is present here — not as performance, not as pressure — but as influence. It shapes the questions, the posture, and the ...

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. In fundamentalist Iran, Brooks finagles an invitation to tea with the ayatollah’s widow—and discovers that Mrs. Khomeini dyes her hair.

A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?

Welcome to the, "So, What's the Point?" podcast! Host Justin Knowles invites guests to share about their life experiences, faith, and hope for the future. New episodes air every Friday!

Decibel and Docket is a podcast at the intersection of the music business, live entertainment and the justice system. Hosted by veteran entertainment journalist Dave Brooks and attorney Mike Seville, this weekly podcast examines major legal stories and headlines affecting artists, content creators and the business of culture.

LOVE Fierce podcast is for anyone who longs to live and lead in real and relentless love. Together, we lift the light of love into the world. One story. One breath. One brave step at a time.

Henry Adams, the enigmatic author behind Democracy, unveiled his literary prowess posthumously in 1918. Originally released in 1880 to widespread acclaim, the novel transports readers to Washington in the 1870s, during the presidencies of Grant and Hayes. At its heart is Madeleine Lee, a wealthy and independent young widow who leaves her life in New York to delve into the political landscape of the capital. As she navigates the complex world of power and influence, she encounters Senator Silas P. Ratcliffe, a formidable and somewhat uncultured politician eyeing the presidency, who believes Mrs...

The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer’s Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook analyzes the last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world in this magnificent history that brings together accounts from civil servants, horse traders...

Living Life and discussing its Hard Lessons and Dark/Light Moments as they come

Deep dives into politics, economics, science, and the data that shapes our world. From tax policy to bioinformatics, we crunch the numbers so you don't have to.

A wide-ranging and up-to-date survey of the leading ideas and debates in political philosophy.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks speaks to the world's leading thinkers about morality today. In this fascinating series, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks explores what morality means, speaking with globally renowned thinkers, as well as voices from the next generation. From Steven Pinker and Robert Putnam to Melinda Gates and Jordan Peterson, the guests discuss the free market and the financial crash, selfies and social media, individuals and tribalism, artificial intelligence, role models, and rediscovering politics of the common good.

Two Gals and a Mic is a Sandy Ridge Campground production -- a laid-back podcast hosted by friends Brooks and Toni, who met while living and working at Sandy Ridge Campground & RV Resort in North Carolina. We’re RVing gals with real lives, real opinions, absolutely no script, and plenty to say. Expect a mix of RV life, campground culture, and totally random conversations. We’ll use Sandy Ridge as our home base (and yes, as a shameless plug), but most episodes drift wherever our curiosity does -- comedy, chaos, opinions, weird questions, and the everyday madness of life. Come for the RV ...

“Quality Hang”, i.e., a good time and that’s what will be had when Bay Area broadcaster Rod Brooks and his longtime friend Marcus Osbourne hang out at the intersection of sports and pop culture. You’ll come for the sports discussion, but you’ll stay for why light-skinned gangsters are dangerous and why humans are 3.5 point underdogs as soon as we get in the ocean. Come kick it!

Hello midlife – we've made it! And no, we haven’t faded into the background—in fact, we’re more vibrant, curious and louder than ever. Just ask Alex Brooks! Alex has launched a delightful new podcast, just for us. Each episode, she’ll dive into joyful, thought-provoking chats with inspiring guests who are ready to share their wisdom (and a belly laugh or 2) to help us live our best life beyond 50.

The conventional wisdom has held that China's economic power is very close to America's and that Washington cannot undertake a broad economic cutoff of China without hurting itself as much, or more. In Command of Commerce, Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks show the conventional wisdom is wrong on both fronts. The authors argue that America's economic power has been underestimated because conventional economic measures have ignored America's unprecedented control over the world's largest multinational corporations.

Messages from The Brook Church — a contemporary, inter-denominational Bible church in Tomball, Texas (Northwest Houston).

America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays; rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare-state programs.

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks...