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Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales...

Podcast: Givers, Doers, & Thinkers—A Podcast on Philanthropy and Civil Society (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Christopher Caldwell & the age of entitlementPub date: 2021-11-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDuring this episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy chats with acclaimed journalist Christopher Caldwell about the...

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by...

Podcast: Bookstack (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara at WarPub date: 2025-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book...

Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and PunishmentPub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCommon knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper...

Podcast: The Economic and Political History PodcastEpisode: The Roman Economy: The lives of the 90% | Kimberly Bowes with Javier MejiaPub date: 2025-10-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInterview with Kim Bowes, author of 'Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent'The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with...

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Joanna Pocock: GreyhoundPub date: 2025-08-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSam Leith's guest for this week's Book Club podcast is Joanna Pocock, whose new book Greyhound describes two trips she took across America by Greyhound bus in 2006 and 2023. They talk about the literature of...

Podcast: Lives Well Lived (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: (re-release) JANE GOODALL: recognising the animal as an individualPub date: 2025-10-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJane Goodall died this week at the age of 91. To mark her exceptional life we are re-releasing our truly fantastic episode that was recorded at her family home in...

Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived: William the MarshalPub date: 2025-09-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWilliam the Marshal’s story reads like a legend. Born a landless younger son, he rose through sheer skill and courage to become the greatest knight of his age.In this...

Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly LowPub date: 2025-09-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThucydides is perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, a man whose work on the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested,...