By Averill Curdy
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: North Korea: Fact and Fiction
In an age of global connectivity, North Korea remains one of the most isolated -- and enigmatic -- countries on Earth. How much do we really know about it?
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Amanda Holmes reads C. D. Wright’s poem “Lake Echo, Dear.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Eyes to the Sky: Privacy and Commerce in the Age of the Drone
In the new book, Eyes to the Sky: Privacy and Commerce in the Age of the Drone, essayists detail both the promising and troubling potential uses of drone technology. Matthew Feeney is the book's editor.
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 08/24
President Biden faces growing global pressure to extend his Afghanistan deadline in order to complete evacuations. A favorite American tourist destination urges people not to visit right now because of the surge of Delta variant COVID cases. A frantic search for flood victims in Tennessee. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, August 24, 2021:
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Time To Say Goodbye - Gig work, Afghanistan, “The Chair”
Hello from a reunited pod squad!
This week, we gab about a welcome court ruling on California’s Proposition 22 gig-work law, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Sandra Oh’s new Netflix show.
(0:00): Tammy on why Prop 22 was ruled unconstitutional and what it means for workers’ rights across the US
(7:10): How to understand what’s happening in Afghanistan in the context of our long wars in the region
(44:45): What “The Chair” says about Asian American TV, austerity politics in higher ed, race and generational divides, and the (cancel) culture wars.
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Headlines From The Times - A sea change in baseball?
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer hasn't played a Major League Baseball game since late June, when a woman received a temporary restraining order against him after alleging that consensual sexual encounters turned into sexual and physical assaults on two occasions. Bauer has not been charged with any crimes and denies the allegations, and a judge denied last week a request to make the restraining order permanent.
But the controversy has cast a harsh light on sexism in baseball, which has been present in the sport since its start and continues to plague the national pastime. And this time, the reaction seems different.
More reading:
What we know about the Trevor Bauer case, and what we’ll never know
2021 hindsight: Inside the Trevor Bauer disaster and how the Dodgers got here
Commentary: Trevor Bauer, faced with report of previous protective order, plays old card: Bullying
The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Hostages Abroad and Hostage at Home
Author and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, joins the podcast today to talk about the ongoing nightmare in Afghanistan, which is evolving from a debacle into a hostage crisis. But Americans get no respite at home as COVID has evolved from a pandemic into a lifestyle brand.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - How you like them: Apple’s decade under Tim Cook
The tech firm has ballooned under his leadership, but Mr Cook’s next ten years will not be as rosy as the first. We ask how he can maintain Apple’s shine. Activists, academics, journalists, now labour unions: Hong Kong’s authorities keep stifling democracy’s defenders wherever they turn. And why California may soon find it hard to bring home the bacon.
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Omnibus - Goodnight Moon (Entry 539.PR0324)
In which a modernist Manhattan bohemian accidentally writes the great American bedtime story, and John regrets making his professor voice Austrian. Certificate #44141.