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Amanda Holmes reads Wislawa Szymborska’s “Hitler’s First Photograph,” translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. 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.
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Garrison talks with Robert about Republican investigations into the presidential autopen as a way to rescind pardons and remove judges.
Sources:
https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1908354
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/politics/autopen-trump-biden-analysis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-clemency-interview.html
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