NBN Book of the Day - Jennifer T. Roberts, “Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture” (Princeton UP, 2024)

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture (Princeton UP, 2024) is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.
Examining the huge importance to the Greeks of religion, mythology, the Homeric epics, tragic and comic drama, philosophy, and the city-state, the book offers shifting perspectives on an extraordinary and astonishingly creative people. Century after century, in one medium after another, the Greeks addressed big questions, many of which are still very much with us, from whether gods exist and what happens after we die to what political system is best and how we can know what is real. Yet for all their virtues, Greek men set themselves apart from women and foreigners and profited from the unpaid labor of enslaved workers, and the book also looks at the mixed legacy of the ancient Greeks today.
The result is a rich, wide-ranging, and compelling history of a fascinating and profoundly influential culture in all its complexity—and the myriad ways, good and bad, it continues to shape us today.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: How AI Is Changing Jobs, Daily Life & What’s Coming

Today we’re taking stock of the overall state of artificial intelligence in 2025 – from the latest potential to the biggest risks, including which jobs may be first to go. I’m speaking with a computer scientist and AI researcher about how AI is already being used in your daily life and what to watch for next as this technology evolves fast.

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CBS News Roundup - 05/24/2025 | Weekend Roundup

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes gets the latest from CBS's Nicole Sganga on that deadly shooting outside of a Jewish museum in the nation's capitol. We'll have a breakdown of President Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill, and what it might mean for everything from health care to food assistance in the nation. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about the atrocities committed at an upstate New York boarding school for Native Americans.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Two Tracks of Justice

This week’s episode attempts to understand the ways in which the law of Trump unfolds along two tracks at the same time. First, Mark Joseph Stern joins us to talk about the Supreme Court’s decision to let Trump fire the heads of independent agencies, undermining a 90-year-old precedent in an unsigned, two-page decision on the shadow docket. This is a case in which Donald Trump’s agenda perfectly aligns with the wishlist of the conservative supermajority that controls the court. But if the court keeps giving Trump free passes to break the law now, why should we expect him to respect the court when it tries to draw the line later?

Then Dahlia Lithwick talks to the University of Chicago’s Aziz Huq about the idea of a “dual state,” a legal arrangement in which seismic changes happen in ways that are not perceptible to the bulk of the citizens. Drawing from the work of a Jewish lawyer who witnessed the dual state operate in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, Huq explains that authoritarians can seize the levers of the law to persecute disfavored groups, without disturbing the idea of the rule of law for the great majority of the nation.

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Audio Mises Wire - Is Culture Degeneration Biological or Ideological?

Why do cultures degenerate? At the recent Natal Conference, Robin Hanson cites biological and evolutionary factors. However, if one looks to Mises and the Austrians, we look squarely at human action that begins with the human mind and purposeful action.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/culture-degeneration-biological-or-ideological

 

 

Audio Mises Wire - Price Controls and Drug Shortages in France: A Textbook Case of the Evils of Interventionism

France is facing critical shortages of a number of drugs, and one need look no further for a cause than a price control regime. Naturally, the French media and government blame capitalism and look to double down on the intervention that has causes this crisis.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/price-controls-and-drug-shortages-france-textbook-case-evils-interventionism

 

 

More or Less: Behind the Stats - Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

Every two years, the UN release their predictions for the future population of humanity ? currently expected to peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion people.

One of the things they use to work this out is the fertility rate, the number of children the average woman is expected to have in her lifetime. When this number falls below 2, the overall population eventually falls. In this episode of More or Less, we look at the fertility estimates for one country ? Argentina. The graph of the real and predicted fertility rate for that country looks quite strange.

The collected data ? that covers up to the present day ? shows a fertility rate that?s falling fast. But the predicted rate for the future immediately levels out. The strangeness has led some people to think that the UN might be underestimating the current fall in global fertility.

To explain what?s going on we speak to Patrick Gerland, who runs the population estimates team in the United Nations Population Division.

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 183

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. 

  1. Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 1

  2. Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew, Pt. 2

  3. War Update

  4. The Gang Reviews Andor Season 2, Ep. 10-12
  5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17

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Anarchism In Mexico feat. Andrew

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chuck-morse-anarchism-in-mexico

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-america

Kirk Shaffer’s “Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s–1920s” (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/steven-j-hirsch-lucien-van-der-walt-anarchism-and-syndicalism-in-the-colonial-and-postcolonial#toc97)

War Update

https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/pkk-final-declaration-activities-under-the-pkk-name-have-ended-79294

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/cemil-bayik-we-are-now-developing-a-new-paradigm-a-second-manifesto-79403

https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/new-message-from-abdullah-Ocalan-79417 

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/mazloum-abdi-we-hope-all-relevant-parties-take-the-necessary-steps-79319

https://jacobin.com/2025/05/kashmir-india-pakistan-cease-fire-democracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/14/did-pakistan-shoot-down-five-indian-fighter-jets-what-we-know

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvr4r5d2qo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn617xv4no

https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/lessons-for-the-next-india-pakistan-war/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/world/asia/india-pakistan-conflict.html

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #17

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69775896/dvd-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.111.0.pdf

https://www.refworld.org/policy/countrypos/unhcr/2024/en/147589

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/09/south-sudan-incendiary-bombs-kill-burn-civilians

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403712/supreme-court-tps-venezuelans

https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/qjurecic.bsky.social/post/3lppd7wq7jc2h

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/potential-ice-raid-thwarted-central-california-20335765.php

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052025_ice_court_arrests/mayhem-as-ice-officials-arrest-multiple-people-immigration-court-phoenix/

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-05-21/a-childs-obsession-with-fire-and-a-mysterious-cache-of-explosives-inside-the-palm-springs-bombing-probe

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-18/suicide-bomber-targeted-fertility-clinic

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/reddit-bans-anti-natalists-palm-springs-explosion-rcna207677

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/20/dhs-no-plans-immigrant-reality-show/83743897007/ 

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-is-considering-reality-show-where-immigrants-compete-for-citizenship-47de277c 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-serial-killers-execution-trump-rcna207171 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/middleeast/diplomats-israeli-fire-west-bank-intl 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/19/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-take-control-gaza-uk-france-canada-threaten-action

https://www.patreon.com/posts/129696965?pr=true

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/a-myanmar-artist-finds-freedom-behind-bars-by-portraying-prisoners-oppression/

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