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The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power – hailed as a “breathtaking account” by James Patterson, “masterfully written” by historian Douglas Brinkley, and “the finest book” ever written on the subject by Lt. Commander...

Award-winning journalist Trish Wood digs deep with guests and thinks critically about the world, COVID-19 policy, true crime, wrongful convictions, epic media fails, addiction, the gender wars and sometimes basketball. Trish's acclaimed interview style, empathetic but tough and agenda-free, explodes convention and exposes raw truth. Trish Wood's guests include: Matt Taibbi, Scott Atlas, Naomi Wolf, Abigail Shrier, Michael Shermer, Meghan Daum and Nancy Rommelmann. Listeners of this show also enjoy The Joe Rogan Podcast, Blocked and Reporter with Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog and Dave Rubin's ...

The offical podcast of https://www.critical-theories-of-place-studies.org/The project 'Womanism, positivism, and the origins of decolonial feminism: critical theories of place studies' is an exploration of the lives of women of the long nineteenth century. It situates them within the storied places where they courageously challenged the colonial/ modern gender system, or the oppressive structures of Eurocentric global capitalism that for five-hundred years destroyed communities, their cosmologies, and the planet. Each counterstory relays how protagonists created anti-positivist spaces across ...

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for the past 75 years. It’s a burden to some and a potent vote-winner for others. It’s a...

Critical Hope is a student initiative that aims to narrate a story on possibilities of change.Through the voices of people who go beyond imagination and reshape aspects of our world, this podcast touches upon topics related to sustainable regional and urban planning, socio-environmental justice, knowledge and power dynamics in a changing world.We stand at the intersection of critique and action: questioning existing structures while highlighting the work of those interacting with the world around us in a proactive and inclusive manner.Critical Hope is a podcast by POLIS, the platform for ...

In Life Stages and Native Women, Kim Anderson shares the teachings of fourteen elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Metis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century.

Apocalyptic Crimes - episode 1 - Ron Kramer and Felix Brooks Felix and Ron discuss chapter one of Ron's new book, Apocalyptic Crimes.“It is 90 Seconds to Midnight”: Nuclear Weapons, Apocalyptic Harms, and State Crime.

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treacherous maneuverings that led to the Clintons’ return to political prominence. In the twelve years since the Clintons left the White House, they...

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent Lives Michael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of...

Critical Contact explores pivotal conversations that changed the course of history. Hosted by Ezra Wade, this series examines those rare moments when the right words between the right people at the right time altered our world forever. Each episode takes listeners inside crucial dialogues between influential figures, revealing the human exchanges that shaped science, politics, and culture. Through Wade's signature blend of historical insight and wry commentary, we discover how sometimes the most profound changes begin with a simple conversation.Click Here To Browse Handpicked Amazon Finds ...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of Ronald Reagan by his longtime aide and friend ""These are memories of a friend and they span over the 35 years that I have known and loved Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Primarily anecdotal, there will be no footnotes, simply my best efforts to reconstruct...

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. In End of Days, James Swanson reveals Lee Harvey Oswald's bizarre history of violence and follows John and Jacqueline Kennedy on their fateful Dallas motorcade ride...

A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved. Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s family, that they were direct...

On Oct. 1, 2017, a country music festival in Las Vegas was interrupted by a barrage of gunfire. In five parts, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Shea Johnson shares the stories of two Las Vegas police officers, a woman in dire straits and the night their lives intersected.

Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project. The Times set to transform history by asserting that all the laws, material gains, and cultural achievements of Americans are rooted in the exploitation of African Americans. Historians have pushed back, saying that the 1619 Project conjures a false narrative out of racial grievance.

Are dolphins highly intuitive beings with a unique duty in the oceans? Is plastic off-gassing into our food poisoning us? Can breathing steamed bamboo leaves treat asthma? Did the First Nations Peoples have the right philosophies for harmonious living all along? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation. Author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about plant-based diets and medicines, the best-practices of indigenous and First Peoples, and the profound wisdom of animals.

In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep in former slave dwellings—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Since founding the Slave Dwelling Project project in 2010...

The Shared Presence Foundation is pleased to present a series of lectures delivered by Roger Weir in 1985 about 4 important figures in American history. This series focuses on James Fenimore Cooper, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, and Mark Twain in a total of 13 lectures. More about this series: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/hermetic-america-our-critical-heritage More presentations by Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/ More about Roger Weir: https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/resonance/person-roger-weir More about the Shared Presence ...

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