Month: August 2023

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Gladiators

You’ve probably seen a movie or a TV show that took place in ancient Rome where gladiators fought in the coliseum or an amphitheater. At the end of the fight, the emperor or some other official would extend their thumb to see if the defeated gladiator would live or would die.

But how accurate is that depiction of gladiatorial contests? Did gladiators always die in the arena? Did the emperor determine their fate? How exactly did the entire system work, and perhaps most important, why in the world did they do this in the first palace?

Learn more about gladiators and gladiatorial contests, what was fact and what was fiction, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Samuel Moyn, “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times” (Yale UP, 2023)

By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era--among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling--transformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time.

In Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press, 2023), Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy--a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.

Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Paying Student Debt Again – Predictions, Problems & Prep

Tens of millions of Americans are preparing to make student loan payments again. We’re examining what this means for the U.S. economy with Emerson Sprick from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Then, Meagan McGuire from Student Loan Planner explains what borrowers need to know, and do, to get ready for the end of the pause. 

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CBS News Roundup - 08/19/2023 | Maui Fires, Trump Indictment, Lahaina Strong

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes has team coverage of the situation in Maui as the death toll continues to rise. Allison speaks with CBS News Correspondent Nikole Killion about the latest indictment of former president Trump. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, Allison hears from activist Noelani Ahia about the damage done to priceless Indigenous history in the wake of the wildfires, and also from Todd Lamphere with the faith-based non-profit CityServe, who is in Maui working to help survivors.

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Slate Books - Gabfest Reads: Demon Copperhead

Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson talk with author Barbara Kingsolver about her new book, Demon Copperhead. They discuss her inspiration for the novel, what we keep getting wrong about Appalachia, and more.   


Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)


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More or Less: Behind the Stats - How many butterflies are there in the world?

Butterflies are a much-loved feature of summer in many parts of the world. But how many of them are there on Earth?

That?s the question a young listener to More or Less wanted an answer to ? and she couldn?t find the answer no matter how hard she searched the internet.

Presenter Daniel Gordon enlists Professor Jane Hill, a butterfly expert at York University, England, who?s also President of the Royal Entomological Society, to try and help solve the mystery.

He also consults Holly Mynott, International Officer of Butterfly Conservation, who describes the techniques used to run The Big Butterfly Count in the UK ? the biggest event of its kind in the world.

Producer/Presenter: Daniel Gordon Series Producer: Jon Bithrey Editor: Richard Vadon Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 96

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Headlines | Top Stories of the Week 08-14-23

A roundup of the week’s most valuable crypto stories for Saturday, Aug 19, 2023. 


Missed any episodes of “The Hash” this week? Today’s recap episode will get you caught up.

“Hash Headlines” rounds up this week’s headline stories, including:

  • Bernie Madoff's Former Attorney Reacts to Sam Bankman-Fried Being Sent to Jail
  • Europe Far More Advanced than the U.S.?
  • What FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Is 'Freaking Out About'
  • Much-Hyped Shibarium Network's Turbulent Start


Links to the headlines: 

Sam Bankman-Fried Jailed Ahead of Trial

Europe's First Spot Bitcoin ETF Lists in Amsterdam

SHIB Plunges 9% on Apparent Shibarium Bridge Issues

Shiba Inu’s Ethereum Layer-2 Blockchain Shibarium Goes Live Amid Push for DeFi Growth

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This Machine Kills - 276. China’s Zombie Economy and Capital Crackdown

We start with a visit to that smart city we all love, New Orleans, and see how the police department’s facial recognition surveillance is going. Then we revisit China, this time to lay out the broader conditions of its zombie economy and attempts by the state to reassert its power over capital by enforcing discipline on the tech and real estate sector, and giving them strong guidance about how they can work to better serve the state’s interest. We discuss this further in the context of China’s antitrust crackdown on tech companies—we might be envious of the means, but we should be wary of the goals. Stuff we reference ••• NOPD use of facial recognition leads to zero arrests in nine months https://veritenews.org/2023/07/26/nopd-use-of-facial-recognition-leads-to-zero-arrests-in-nine-months/ ••• Zombie Economy https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/zombie-economy ••• Why Is China’s Economy Stumbling? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/opinion/china-economy-decline.html ••• What Comes Next as China’s Tech Crackdown Winds Down https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-24/what-s-next-as-china-s-tech-crackdown-winds-down#xj4y7vzkg Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)