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DD7 - Judas and the Black Messiah: Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, FBI/COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover, the Rainbow Coalition, MHCHAOS, MLK and Malcolm X, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, and the CIA
Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
Matthew 26:48
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Published on 2 months ago
#172a - The Odyssey: A Philosophical Analysis, Hubert Dreyfus on Artistic Worldmaking, the Attuning Gift of Greek Gods, Telemachus' Journey to Manhood, Autonomy and the Divine Inspiration
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Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley who specialized in phenomenology, 20th century Continental ph…
Published on 2 months ago
DD6 - 40 Years in Solitary: "Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3", Solitary Confinement, Torture, Jim Crow, Black Radicalism, Private Prisons, Prison Labor, and Mass Incarceration
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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
DD5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, K. Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, the Third Reich, Fascism
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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Consolatio #6: The Finest Threads that Bind the Truth - Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy on Free Will, Higher Intelligence, History and Eternity, Hope's Epitaph
The final book in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, on the compatibility of divine omniscience and human free will, the eternal and the continual, and the rarefaction of intelligence.
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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hemlock #31: McNamara's Cold War: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev & Gorbachev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tokyo Firebombing, Nuclear Abolition
McNamara at War is available September 23rd from Amazon! There's an audiobook as well for the audio-inclined...
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The podcast features an insightful conversatio…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (BRM #3, Explicit) with Mr. Richard - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, 50s Americana, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mr. Eddy, Now It's Dark
Now It's Dark.
Explicit Advisory: This episode contains potentially upsetting discussions of child sexual abuse/violence as well as addiction, domestic abuse, and human trafficking.
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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Hemlock #30 - Kaila Yu: Orientalism (Old and New), WW2 Comfort Women, Disney Princesses, Imperialism and the Sex Trade, Okinawa Air Base, Asian Fetishization, Memoirs of a Geisha, Playboy, +New Book
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
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Author Kaila Yu joins the show to discuss her po…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Hemlock #29 - Welcome to the First Crusade Feat. American Prestige and We're Not So Different: Magic Spears, Starving Franks, Holy Massacres, Historical Himbos, and Why Only the First Crusade Worked
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Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
#171a - John Brown: Susan Neiman on One Man's Terrorist is Another Man's Freedom Fighter, Radical Ethics and Activism, Violence and Nonviolence, Battle Hymn of the Republic, & Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
This episode is Lecture #3 of 6 in Susan Neiman's "Heroism for a Time of Victims" lecture series, part of the Gifford Lectures delivered in May 2022. The other 5 can be found in HoPAA #171.
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Published on 3 months ago