Month: May 2024

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Federalist Radio Hour - The Lost Concept Of Citizenship

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Wilfred McClay, the Victor Davis Hanson chair in classical history and Western civilization at Hillsdale College, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new paper, "Restoring Civics in Higher Education," and explain why citizenship is necessary for national function.

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Motley Fool Money - Squarespace’s $6.9B Takeover, First of Many?

Private equity has $2.6 trillion in dry powder to put to work, is Squarespace at the top of a long shopping list?


(00:21) Jason Moser and Dylan Lewis discuss:


- Permira private equity’s plans to take website-builder Squarespace private at $6.9B.

- The Biden administration’s reported plans to raise tariffs on EVs, solar equipment, and medical supplies, and why automakers in China aren’t too concerned.


(14:54) The internet economy is all about eyeballs. Fool analyst Asit Sharma and Ricky Mulvey take a look at Pubmatic, an advertising company creating trillions of impressions per quarter and facing off against some trillion dollar companies.


Companies discussed: SQSP, SCHW, PUBM, TTD, MSFT, NFLX


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Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: Jason Moser, Asit Sharma, Ricky Mulvey,

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineers: Dan Boyd

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What’s That Building: The Former La Luce Building Near Ogden

A charming four-story Queen Anne-style structure from 1892 near Ogden has seen better days. The city’s landmark commission announced its new status back in 2021 to save it from certain demolition but three years later, is its dilapidated state all there is to it now? Reset learns more about this city landmark from architecture sleuth, and Crain’s Chicago Business residential real estate reporter, Dennis Rodkin. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Rap Beefs, Tornadoes, Brain Worms and More

What's going on with all these tornado clusters-- and what does it tell us about the future of natural disasters? The gang weighs in on the larger context of recent rap beefs. Ben calls in from an undisclosed location, with the latest updates on brain worms and Presidential candidates, with a special message for Mother's Day. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Bitcoin’s Narrative ‘Never Better’: ZX Squared Capital Co-Founder

The latest price moves and insights with Helene Braun and ZX Squared Capital co-founder and CIO CK (Changguang) Zheng.

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ZX Squared Capital co-founder and CIO CK (Changguang) Zheng discusses why institutional interest in bitcoin led by the ETF products in the U.S. could be the catalyst for the largest crypto by market cap to reach the $90,000 level by the end of 2024. Plus, why bitcoin's narrative has never been better given the inflation in fiat currencies across the world.

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This episode was hosted by Helene Braun. “Markets Daily” is produced by executive producer Jared Schwartz and edited by Victor Chen, alongside Senior Booker, Melissa Montañez—all original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.

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The Bulwark Podcast - Will Saletan: Trolls and Liars

Today's GOP is not a governing party—it's a grievance and trolling party, and Trump has the nihilist vote all locked up. Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham and others are pushing a Hiroshima model in response to Gaza. And because we all still need to laugh, the pod now has a new segment, "The Right Stuff." Will Saletan joins Tim Miller today.

show notes:

Jonathan Karl on Johnny McEntee
CBS News segment on the mother rescued from Gaza

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The Allusionist - 194. Word Play 4: Good Grids

Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US: more constructors, more outlets to get puzzles published, clues and answers that would never have appeared even a few years ago, and puzzle packs raising a whole lot of money for charities and humanitarian causes. 

You hear from crossword constructor extraordinaire Erik Agard, Juliana Pache of BlackCrossword.com, Rachel Fabi of These Puzzles Fund Abortion, and Adrian Johnson from Puzzles for Palestine.

Get the transcript of this episode, and find links to more information about the people, puzzles and topics therein at theallusionist.org/grids. This is another instalment in the Word Play series about word games and puzzles; previous episodes include the history of anagrams, and turning words into games. 

Content note: there is one Category B swear.

This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, with Martin Austwick of palebirdmusic.com.

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