Month: August 2022

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “Firestarter”—The Prodigy

Rob celebrates the song “Firestarter” while looking back at the electronic band the Prodigy. While contextualizing the band, he also discusses the backlash surrounding their song “Smack My Bitch Up.”

Host: Rob Harvilla

Guest: Jeremy D Larson

Producer: Justin Sayles

Associate Producer: Jonathan Kermah

Audio Intern: Kai Grady

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Short Wave - Twinkle, Twinkle, Shooting Star

Ahead of the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, we're re-airing our first episode with Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber. In it, Regina and planetary scientist Melissa Rice explore all things shooting star. They talk about the different types, where they come from and what they actually are (hint: not stars).

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NPR's Book of the Day - Chinese American culture, murder mystery, and Dostoyevsky in ‘The Family Chao’

Patriarch Leo Chao is murdered at his restaurant at the beginning of Lan Samantha Chang's new novel The Family Chao. Eventually family secrets and bitterness reveal themselves — much like a Dostoyevsky novel, from whom Chao took a lot of inspiration. But NPR's Scott Simon points out that even though this novel is about a murder, it's quite funny. Chang told Simon that she just enjoyed writing it so much that humor became a natural part of it. This is an encore episode from February 2022.
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Hayek Program Podcast - Liberalism for All — Is Social Justice a Mirage?

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we conclude our summer series of the podcast on Liberalism for All, hosted by Jayme Lemke as she explores the underpinnings and outworkings of a free and open society. Driving the discussion is a set of core questions, including:

  • What does it mean to be liberal in the 21st century?
  • What is the relationship between liberalism and equality?
  • Is the pursuit of equality a threat or opportunity for the liberal project?

Joining Lemke for this episode is Stefanie Haeffele, Senior Program and Operations Director of Mercatus Academic & Student Programs and Senior Fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program. Lemke and Haeffele begin their conversation by considering how social justice is often thought of in modern terms before examining why Hayek saw a tension between liberalism and the pursuit of social justice. Haeffele then offers her thoughts on the tradeoff between liberty and social justice before moving the conversation to a discussion regarding the analogy of institutional environments as games. Additionally, the pair consider some of the challenges, stemming from political capitalism and biased referees, of looking to public policy to remedy social injustices.

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Dirt Rhodes by Kevin MacLeod

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Lost Debate - Ep 68 | Mar-a-Lago Raid, CPAC, Insulin, Masculinity

Ravi and Rikki start with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago before turning to the most revealing moments of CPAC, what did and didn’t make it into Democrats’ final version of their landmark spending bill, and finally, a far-ranging debate on the social and political discourse around masculinity.


[0:50] Mar-A-Lago Raid

[6:15] CPAC Recap

[16:33] Insulin

[24:21] Masculinity


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The Gist - Burned Again and Again

Tomorrow President Biden Signs the Pact Act into law, dedicating funds and expanding VA health care to veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances. Jason Piccolo, Host of the Protectors Podcast, served in Iraq and has the lungs to show for it. Plus, what the raid on Mar-a-Lago means, and Ben and Jerry's won't have a chance to personally market their Netanyhagoo crunch or their Wailing Wall Swirl in Israel.

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Consider This from NPR - How The U.S. Gave Away Cutting-Edge Technology To China

Researchers at an American national laboratory spent years developing cutting-edge vanadium redox flow batteries. But now, a Chinese company is making those batteries in a factory in northeastern China.

An investigation from NPR's Laura Sullivan and Northwest News Network's Courtney Flatt shows how the U.S. federal government gave away American-made technology to China.

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Federalist Radio Hour - In The Midst Of Its Credibility Crisis, The FBI Just Raided Mar-A-Lago

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Senior Editor David Harsanyi and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky break down how the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's home Mar-a-Lago further hurts the agency's already damaged credibility and affirms Trump and Republicans' fears that the regime is using its bureaucratic power to target its political enemies.