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Common Prayer: The Garland Goes Elsewhere

Episode 675

Honouring the rival who outshone you. Across Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism, Sikhism, Judaism. Readings: Katha Upanishad, Part Second, 1-3, tr. Swami …

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Daily X: New President, Please

Episode 674

Donald Trump fractured the American right by pairing a Russian diesel import pact with demands for Volodymyr Zelensky to be replaced, triggering open…

2 days, 4 hours ago

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Daily News Briefing: Saudi-led coalition blames Houthis for Riyadh airport attack that authorities say killed 12

Episode 673

Saudi-led coalition blames Houthis for Riyadh airport attack that authorities say killed 12

2 days, 4 hours ago

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The Long Echo: Counting the Cost

Episode 672

Across the centuries, the eleventh of October has repeatedly turned on the gap between what is calculated on paper and what actually unfolds on the g…

2 days, 4 hours ago

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Reflection: Renato Russo, thirty years after his death - October 11 | Ep 100

Episode 671

Renato Russo told his mother he was bisexual, then told his country through a song: the same truth, with more people to carry it. But company had lim…

2 days, 4 hours ago

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Postmark: Letter from Mumbai — What goes missing

Rohan Desai writes from Mumbai. The letter opens with the unusually visible theft of a cash counter, then turns to the quieter loss of purchasing pow…

2 days, 7 hours ago

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Postmark: Letter from France — Marches and gravity

Episode 670

Eleanor Vane writes from France. The Paris Sausage Walk took dachshunds down the Champs-Élysées to the Rond-Point and back. At Lycée Le Corbusier in …

3 days ago

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