Jung Chang’s memoir Wild Swans, published in 1991, told the story of three generations of women in her family as they survived upheaval in 20th-century China. Now, Chang picks up her family’s story in Fly, Wild Swans, which she was moved to write as her mother’s health failed. In today’s episode, Chang talks with Here & Now’s Scott Tong about her inability to return to China, the biography of Mao she co-authored with her husband, and the Xi era.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks
Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks
Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.
Read Me a Poem - “But Maybe God Needs Our Longing” by Nelly Sachs
Amanda Holmes reads Nelly Sachs’s “But Maybe God Needs Our Longing,” 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.
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Chapo Trap House - 1013 – Your Podcast feat. Jonathan Shainin (2/23/26)
Jonathan Shainin returns to Chapo after ten years to talk about what the hell is going on in the United Kingdom. We talk about Keir Starmer’s and Labour collapse, his wildly unpopular policies and austerity regime, the rise of the Green Party, and Jeremy Corbyn’s bizarre Our Party. We then talk about Shainin’s new magazine Equator and their pieces on the end of liberal Zionism and the Long 90s.
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Audio Mises Wire - Nock’s War on the State
Before Murray Rothbard, there was Albert Jay Nock laying intellectual broadsides against the tyranny of the state. While Nock (unlike Rothbard) never called for total abolishment of the state, he did want as minimal a state as could be had.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nocks-war-state
Audio Poem of the Day - how many of us have them?
By Danez Smith
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Audio Mises Wire - The End of Artificial Employment
AI is not the killer—it is the coroner.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/end-artificial-employment
The Commentary Magazine Podcast - White Monday
AEI's Adam White joins us on this snowy Monday to discuss the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision striking down Trump's IEEPA tariffs, particularly Justice Gorsuch's concurrence, as well as possible replacements for the potentially retiring Justice Alito.
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Audio Mises Wire - Antebellum Federal Protections of Slavery
Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave states—had implemented legal protections of slavery by policy for decades.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/antebellum-federal-protections-slavery