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10 September 2026
Andy Burnham’s theory of power
Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Andy Burnham’s theory of powerPub date: 2026-09-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWho really runs the United Kingdom? Power is badly misallocated, argues journalist and author Phil Tinline, and Andy Burnham understands that better than most of his recent predecessors. But...
34 min
09 September 2026
Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem
Podcast: Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Episode 158 - Gloria SteinemPub date: 2019-12-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe trajectory of Gloria Steinem’s life and work is unparalleled. Her cultural and political impact, incalculable. With the release of “The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You...
1 h 6 min
08 September 2026
A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progress
Podcast: Conversations (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progressPub date: 2026-02-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe rarely stop to wonder who invented the wheel, the alphabet or the printing press but so much of what feels fundamental to daily life was once a bold, untested...
52 min
07 September 2026
161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity EconomicsPub date: 2021-08-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEconomies in the modern world are incredibly complex systems. But when we sit down to think about them in quantitative...
1 h 35 min
06 September 2026
Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Podcast: New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)Pub date: 2019-11-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDissecting and digesting the history of the Soviet "experiment" can be a frustrating exercise for...
1 h 11 min
05 September 2026
Shelly Lundberg "How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2026)
Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Shelly Lundberg "How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2026)Pub date: 2026-08-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers,...
47 min
04 September 2026
After Words: A Woman's-Eye View of the Revolutionary Era
Podcast: C-SPAN Bookshelf (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: After Words: A Woman's-Eye View of the Revolutionary EraPub date: 2026-08-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHistorian Molly Beer took a woman's-eye view of the revolutionary era through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton's sister-in-law. Thomas Jefferson's...
50 min
03 September 2026
This Is Why People Hate the Government
Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: This Is Why People Hate the GovernmentPub date: 2026-08-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 2024, Americans spent an average of six full workdays a year filling out government forms, according to the government’s own estimates. That’s a total of 12 billion hours, or $430...
1 h 17 min
02 September 2026
What Can We Learn from Estonia?
Podcast: Statecraft (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: What Can We Learn from Estonia?Pub date: 2025-06-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat can we learn from Estonia? It’s not a question you hear often — the nation of under two million residents doesn’t mean much to many. But for good governance advocates, it’s long been a touchpoint for...
46 min
02 September 2026
Claudia Kreklau, "The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780–1910" (Berghahn, 2026)
Podcast: New Books in German Studies (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Claudia Kreklau, "The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780–1910" (Berghahn, 2026)Pub date: 2026-08-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French...
43 min