Month: October 2023

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The Daily Signal - Alexandra Hudson’s Cure for Incivility

At a time when America faces innumerable challenges, Alexandra Hudson wants her fellow citizens to focus on something only they can control: civility toward others.

Hudson’s new book, “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves,” is on sale today. She joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about something why civility is so lacking in our society and what to do about it.

In this era of “cancel culture,” Hudson believes it’s critical to have tough discussions and debates with our friends and neighbors—especially those with whom we disagree—but we’ve lost sight of what it means to do so in a respectful way.

Listen to the full episode or read a lightly edited transcript at The Daily Signal. You’ll learn how to live tolerantly with others despite your differences.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Where Israel Vs Hamas Is Heading

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing a complete blockade of Gaza after Hamas militants killed more than 700 Israelis this weekend. The surprise attack caught Israeli intelligence completely off-guard, and has thrown the region into disarray, on the eve of landmark talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia. 

What’s the next stage of this already-volatile conflict? And what’s next for civilians in the Gaza Strip?

Guest: Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent for The Economist

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Pod Save America - Hamas Makes War, Republicans Play Politics

Israel has begun a full-scale siege of the Gaza Strip after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Saturday. Republican politicians wasted no time blaming Biden for the attack, despite his administration offering full support for Israel. Meanwhile, the race to be the next Speaker of the House kicks off a busy week. RFK Jr. announces he's dropping out of the 2024 Democratic Primary and launching a third-party bid for president. Later, former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger stops by to talk about the chaos his old colleagues in the House have created.

 

For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

 

Join the World-Wide Digital Experience "Pod Save America Live from DC" on October 19 at 8 PM ET with Co-host Symone Sanders and Special Guests Senator John Fetterman, Chef Jose Andres, and Jennifer Carroll Foy.

 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - No one likes meetings. Let’s reduce their blast radius.

Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI, their new GPT-powered scheduling assistant, is launching in beta. Join the waitlist here to get early access. (They’re also hiring!)

Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive.

Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to tune out distractions and focus on cognitively demanding tasks.

Speaking of classics, Paul Graham of Y Combinator wrote about maker’s vs. manager’s schedules back in 2009.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn.

Kudos to Stack Overflow user Joe Caruso, who won a Great Question badge with Get current time in hours and minutes.

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Read Me a Poem - “The Watcher” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Amanda Holmes reads Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Watcher,” translated from the German by Stephanie Bastek. 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.

 

The Watcher

by Rainer Maria Rilke


I see the storms coming in the trees

that on swollen, balmy days

beat at my anxious window,

and hear the Distance saying things

that I can’t bear without a friend,

can’t love without a sister.


There goes the storm, a rearranger,

goes through forest and through time,

and everything is as though ageless:

the landscape, like a verse in a psalm book,

is truth and might and eternity.


How small it is, what we wrestle with,

what wrestles with us, how great;

if we could let ourselves be more like things,

be subdued by great storms—

we would become vast and nameless.


What we defeat is the Small,

and the victory itself makes us small.

The Eternal and Enormous

will not be bent by us.

This is the Angel that appeared

to the wrestlers of the Old Testament:

when its adversary’s sinews

strained like metal in the struggle,

it felt them under its fingers

like the strings of deep melodies.


Whoever was bested by this Angel—

who so often renounced struggle—

he goes righteous and upright

and great from that harsh hand,

which embraced him like a sculptor.

Victories do not entice him.

This is how he grows: deep defeat

by ever greater forces.


Translated by Stephanie Bastek


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It Could Happen Here - Antifascist Roundtable, Part 1

We are joined by Shane Burley, Emily Gorcenski, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, and Michael Novick to discuss their personal history in Antifascism, and their new anthology book ‘No Pasaran.’

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Good Bad Billionaire - George Lucas: Box office billions

In the podcast that uncovers how the world's 2,668 billionaires made their money and asks if they are good or bad for the planet, Simon and Zing follow George Lucas' journey from cult filmmaker to master of a cinematic galaxy. Find out how he harnessed the force of Star Wars to make him one of the richest filmmakers in the world, despite directing just six movies.

We’d love to hear your feedback. Email goodbadbillionaire@bbc.com or drop us a text or WhatsApp to +1 (917) 686-1176.

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The Allusionist - 183. Timucua

When Spanish missionaries arrived in what is now called Florida, there were 100,000-200,000 Timucua people in the region. Just two centuries later, there were fewer than 100. Soon, with all the people who spoke it dead, the Timucua language died out, too, preserved only in a few Spanish-Timucua religious texts.

In the 21st century, linguistic anthropologist Aaron Broadwell and historian Alejandra Dubcovsky have been decoding and translating these texts to understand the Timucua language and the people who were writing it down.

Find out more about this episode and the topics therein, and obtain the transcript, at theallusionist.org/timucua. Content note: in the episode there is mention of slavery, genocide, and mistreatment of the indigenous people of what is now called United States of America.

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CBS News Roundup - 10/09/23 | World News Round Up Late Edition

Israel punches back, vowing revenge on Hamas. At least 11 Americans killed as death toll in Israel and Gaza surges. Hollywood writers' union ratifies three-year labor contract after strike.

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