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The modern university still functions, but what it no longer does is govern itself by truth.The Emperor Is a Hostage is a long-form podcast about academia, knowledge, power, and the institutional machinery that keeps inquiry alive while stripping it of authority.Across multiple seasons, the podcast traces the machinery that keeps truth alive but silent: metrics, audit, prestige economies, managerial reform, and the quiet redistribution of risk and sacrifice. It examines why corruption emerges without villains, why competence often exits first, and why stability eventually replaces inquiry as ...

Step into a whimsical world with Emperor of the Moon, a delightful restoration farce by a talented female playwright. Join Doctor Baliardo, a Neapolitan philosopher utterly captivated by the Moons mysteries. His obsession leads him to imagine a lunar realm, complete with its own inhabitants and governance, causing him to reject the suitors of his beloved daughter Elaria and niece Bellemante—two charming nephews of the Viceroy—believing them mere earthly beings. Experience the humor and intrigue as love battles against the backdrop of philosophical folly.

The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy Back, the legendary producer in the pantheon of music greats as influential and groundbreaking as Motown’s Berry Gordy and a memoir of the creative process. Hailed by the New Yorker as “the eminence...

James Krask /Emperor of this World -Alpha Male/ Alpha Wolf - Protector of Earth -Morse Code Follower

Welcome to Emperor Pigs; a pizzeria, run by demons, that also sells weed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imperial law enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon is good at her job: she can deter thieves and pacify thugs, if not with a blade, then by toppling an eight-foot pile of coffee canisters onto their heads. But when ravaged bodies show up on the waterfront, an arson covers up human sacrifices, and a powerful business coalition plots to kill the emperor, she feels a tad overwhelmed. Worse, Sicarius, the empire's most notorious assassin, is in town. He's tied in with the chaos somehow, but Amaranthe would be a fool to cross his path. Unfortunately, her superiors order her to hunt him down. Either they have ...

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Join us as we dive deep into the life of Fred Alexander, a stage magician with a shocking secret that will lead him to an unexpected death. Follow his anxious moments backstage and an ominous encounter with a reporter that spirals into chaos. As the king of the grim reapers, Fred knows that everyone dies one day, but can he escape his fate? This suspenseful narrative is woven with themes of destiny, deception, and the consequences of choices.https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=80dSEQAAQBAJhttps://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details?id=AQAAAECKxy-HtM Hosted on Acast. See ...

Join nerd power couple Alex and Elayne as we take a spoiler-free chapter-by-chapter dive into the classic sci-fi Dune series by Frank Herbert. Elayne is a prolific sci-fi/fantasy reader who has somehow let this classic series pass her by, while Alex is on his second read and will be our resident “expert”. In each episode, released on Mondays, we'll recap and discuss up to three chapters, and talk about plot points, characters, and the Dune universe at large, all in a manner that's spoiler-free and safe for first-time readers. To keep up with us follow us on Twitter @nerdisaymore, to ...

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Claire Messud discusses her New York Times Best Book of 2006 with fellow novelist Valerie Martin. The Emperor's Children is a brilliant contemporary novel of manners that puts under a magnifying glass the flawed ambitions of three college friends on the verge of their 30s, trying to make a place for themselves in New York. To set the tone for this enticing discussion, actress Hope Davis reads an excerpt from the book.

When you've been accused of kidnapping an emperor, and every enforcer in the city wants your head, it's hard to prove yourself an honorable person and even harder to earn an imperial pardon. That doesn't keep Amaranthe Lokdon and her team of outlaws from trying. When athletes start disappearing from the Imperial Games, they may finally have an opportunity to show the emperor that they're on his side. If she and her comrades can get to the bottom of such a public mystery, they're sure to get the credit. But plans go awry when Amaranthe's own men start plotting against each other, the new ally ...

It's been three months since former enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon and the notorious assassin Sicarius thwarted kidnappers and saved the emperor's life. The problem? Nobody knows they were responsible for this good deed. Worse, they're being blamed for the entire scheme. With enforcers and bounty hunters stalking them, and the emperor nursing a personal hatred for Sicarius, it's going to be hard to earn exoneration. When Amaranthe's team discovers mutilated bodies in the city aqueducts and a mysterious illness incapacitates thousands of citizens, she and Sicarius see an opportunity to solve the ...