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Podcast: Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 89. The world, redrawn? Maps at the United Nations
Pub date: 2026-10-25

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How we map the world shapes how we understand it. In this episode, Dr Olivia Lwabukuna, Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights and Development at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London; Dr Sam Morgan, Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University; and Associate Professor Tamsin Phillipa Paige of Deakin Law School discuss the UN...

Podcast: Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S11:E2 - Capitalism and Catastrophe
Pub date: 2026-11-04

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In this episode we welcome anthropologist Raja Swamy (University of Tennessee), author of Capitalism and Catastrophe. Swamy argues that “disaster” is flexible and is often misframed as a discrete event rather than a long process, urging disaster studies to interrogate the boundary between disaster and “normal” conditions. He emphasizes how pre-disaster struggles—poverty, eviction, austerity, displacement, war—shape impacts and recovery, a...

Podcast: Untold Histories of the Atlantic World (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazilian Atlantic Intellectuals
Pub date: 2026-11-04

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In this episode, Maria Eduarda Abreu Cavalcante joins me to discuss Afro-Brazilian intellectual history during the nineteenth century. Maria is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Award scholar specializing in nineteenth-century Brazilian history. Maria’s research explores the lives, ideas, and networks of Black intellectuals across the nineteenth-century Atlantic world...

Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Jared Kushner and the Reshaping of the Middle East
Pub date: 2026-11-04

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The allegations are explosive: that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia set up a secret fund for Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, to finance proxy wars hidden from democratic oversight. Journalist Matthew Cole delineates his claims involving, among others, autocratic Gulf leaders, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, and the disgraced mercenary Erik Prince.

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Podcast: Cultures of Energy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 267 - Fossil Fascism (feat. William Callison and Jacob McLean)
Pub date: 2026-11-02

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On this special All Saints edition of the podcast, we talk Halloween and hypostition and then (14:34) welcome William Callison and Jacob McLean of The Zetkin Collective to talk about their brilliant new book, The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism (Verso, 2026). We start with the rise of fossil populism in the...

Podcast: The Polycrisis (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Trailer | Silicon World Order
Pub date: 2026-10-26

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The AI boom is not the investment boom we wanted. Can we make it work for us better?

The issues raised by AI are daunting, and are a potentially dangerous distraction from other challenges facing humanity.

We’ll look at AI as a site of geopolitical rivalry, as a source of new military systems and as a climate threa...

Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Board of Peace - a model for a new world order? w/ Noura Erakat
Pub date: 2026-11-05

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In a recent long read for the Boston Review, Noura Erakat argued that the Board of Peace represents a new model of governance that aims to circumvent international law, democratic accountability and self-determination. Comparing the project to charter cities and other libertarian projects Noura argues that the board offers a blueprint for...

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 481. The Data of Empire (ft. Roopika Risam)
Pub date: 2026-10-30

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We chat with Roopika Risam — author of Data Empire: How Information Shaped Human History — about the very long history of data and the many ways that empires have used data to gain power, exercise control, and enforce order on the world. We discuss the patterns of power/knowledge that persist over time—like the constant rediscovery of race science—braiding to...

Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 697. Rhymes in Nature: A Dialogue on Aesthetics with Nicholas Humphrey
Pub date: 2026-11-04

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Nicholas Humphrey is a  fellow at Darwin College at Cambridge University, and the author of many books. His latest works are titled, Why Is the World So Beautiful?: Our Minds in Search of Nature's Rhymes and The Mind Made Flesh: Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution.

Greg and Nicholas discuss why humans uniquely among...

Podcast: The BREAK—DOWN (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: LIVE: The Mineral Age with Isabel Estevez and Emily Iona Stewart
Pub date: 2026-11-02

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The supply and control of "critical mineral" supply chains is now a defining political issue, as the pace of the energy transition collides with rising militarism, geopolitical fragmentation and the AI boom, all of which are driving demand for extraction.
In the process, contradictions have emerged, particularly as the pursuit of clean energy alter...

Podcast: Talking Indonesia (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Elna Tulus - Instant Noodles, Ultra-Processed Food, and Gastro-Capitalism
Pub date: 2026-10-22

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How did Indonesia, a place where wheat, the main ingredient of instant noodles, does not grow, become the second-largest consumer in the world and one of the top five exporters? Instant noodles are a familiar staple for many of us, whether enjoyed occasionally or kept on hand as a pantry essential. First developed after World War II, they hav...

Podcast: Radically Genuine (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Speed, LSD, and MK Ultra Gave Birth to the Chemical Imbalance Theory
Pub date: 2026-10-22

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Was the chemical imbalance theory a scientific discovery, or did it grow out of MK Ultra-era drug experiments?

Philosopher Justin Garson, author of The Madness Pill, traces the history of psychiatry from LSD in 1960s San Francisco to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, and how it paved the way for every “chemi...

Podcast: American Prestige (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E268 - A Modern History of Assassination w/ Simon Ball
Pub date: 2026-09-30

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Danny and Derek welcome Simon Ball, professor of international history and politics at the University of Leeds, to the show for a discussion about the history of political assassination in the modern era. They talk about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, political kil...

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Episode: New Thinking: The Assetocracy w/ Huw Macartney
Pub date: 2026-10-30

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Can you be too wealthy to represent ordinary peoples' interests? What is the relationship between power and wealth in Parliament today? How does political privilege endure despite the abolition of hereditary peerages? How can political economy help us understand the House of Lords?

Huw Macartney is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at University of Birmingham. Nathaniel Sablan is a postgraduate re...

Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episode: Anny Gaul on Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato
Pub date: 2026-10-27

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Dr. Anny is an associate professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato (University of California Press, 2025) and co-editor of Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean (University of Texas Press, 2021). She is the recipient of the Global Fo...

Podcast: Distillations | Science History Institute (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Mules, Arsenic, and Sesame: Untold Black History in the Americas
Pub date: 2026-10-27

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Jayson Porter has written for Distillations magazine on topics ranging from mules and sesame seeds, to arsenic and porgy fish. At first, these things might sound kind of random, but they share a common thread. Together they reveal hidden stories about the black experience in Mexico and the United States. Join us for...

Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cultural Resistance to Data World and Managed Despair / Curtis White
Pub date: 2026-10-29

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Curtis White returns to discuss his new book, "On Resistance: A Manifesto," available now from Random House: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826311/on-resistance-by-curtis-white/ "This Week in Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi and "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follow the interview. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to...

Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Immigration Control as Counterinsurgency
Pub date: 2026-10-28

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The terrorizing and mass deportations of immigrants under the Trump administration may seem an unprecedented descent into an racist order where Constitutional protections no longer apply. But, as historian Kelly Lytle Hernández argues, from early on the U.S. immigration system was exempted from the guardrails of the Constitution. She illustrates how these laws were put in place firs...

Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 116 - Between FinTech and Far-Right I: Placing Debt in a New Conjuncture
Pub date: 2026-10-28

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Living with debt has become a widespread experience that has evolved alongside the housing crisis. Structurally produced by income stagnation, unemployment, rising living costs, prolonged austerity, inflation, and the retrenchment of social benefits, housing financialization exacerbated overindebtedness over the last decade. While access to subprime mortgages for single-family housing indebted lower- and middle-income populations in...

Podcast: Hagley History Hangout (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business with AJ Murphy
Pub date: 2026-10-26

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Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business (Harvard University Press, 2026) is a pioneering study of the Cold War military-industrial complex shows how defense leaders reorganized the US armed forces in the image of commercial enterprise. In an interview conducted by Roger Horowitz (Hagley Center Dir...

Podcast: OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Collapse of Modernity | William Rees
Pub date: 2026-10-20

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The collapse of modern techno-industrial civilization is inevitable. William Rees, human ecologist and ecological economist, argues that humanity's nature evolved in simpler times and has left us wholly incapable of understanding the enormously complex and life-destroying global civilization we've created. The worldview of human exceptionalism, fueled by fossil energy and sustained by the myth of limitless growth and hum...

Podcast: Philosophy Talk (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Michel Foucault and Power
Pub date: 2026-10-18

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Michel Foucault was a 20th century philosopher known for his work concerning power and knowledge. Foucault is often cited for his theory of knowledge and power, which are inextricably linked. But what exactly is Foucault's philosophy of power? Is it a universal theory intended to be applied in any context, or was Foucault simply responding to the specific power dynamics of his tim...

Podcast: The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: THE AGE OF THE OLIGARCHS
Pub date: 2026-10-16

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On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore discusses how oligarchic interests are increasingly shaping U.S. foreign policy decisions toward Russia's war against Ukraine and beyond with Casey Michel, author of the recently published book, United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the U.S., and Destroy Democracy.

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Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Too Much Computer: Ingrid Burrington discusses Hyperscale with Paris Marx
Pub date: 2026-10-22

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Hyperscale data centers are not an inevitable infrastructure, but a product of capitalist financialization pushing us further from a livable future. Ingrid Burrington interviews Paris Marx about his new book Hyperscale, discussing the history behind the rise of hyperscale data centers and how companies are obscuring their true social and environmental costs to maximize pro...

Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Fredric Jameson became Fredric Jameson
Pub date: 2026-10-22

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Perry Anderson once wrote that in Fredric Jameson’s account of postmodernism, ‘the vocation of Western Marxism has reached its most complete consummation.’ Praising the ‘spacious rhythms’ of his ‘complex, yet supple syntax’ and ‘sudden bursts of metaphoric intensity’, Anderson also called Jameson a ‘great writer’. As Toril Moi wrote recently in the LRB, he was a great reader, too. Moi, who was recruit...

Podcast: Thinking Global (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Yongjin Zhang on Chinese World Ordering
Pub date: 2026-10-19

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Professor Yongjin Zhang (University of Bristol) speaks with the Thinking Global podcast about his work on Chinese World Ordering. Professor Zhang chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) and Hira Malik about his own intellectual journey, the concept of world ordering, thinking productively with the international society approach, both ancient and contemporary Chinese approaches to world ordering, irresponsible great powers, and much more. Thinking Global...

Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ghosts of Bandung: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Derek Ide
Pub date: 2026-10-21

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Numerous visions of a post-imperial future proliferated throughout the mid-twentieth century. For this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani talks with Derek Ide about his recently released work, "Ghosts of Bandung: Black Power and Palestine in the Global Cold War" (University of California Press, 2026), and the emergence of one such vision, bor...

Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Global South Redux w/ Ravinder Kaur
Pub date: 2026-10-22

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The term Global South has become ubiquitous in commentary on international affairs, but by the early 2000s middle and lower income countries were more frequently described as belonging to the developing world or - in the case of those states deemed favourable destinations for international capital - emerging markets. Those terms have since increasingly fallen out of favour and been rep...

Podcast: Explaining History (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Stateless Nations – Wales, Catalonia, and the Mezzogiorno
Pub date: 2026-10-14

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In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we are joined by Sam Parry of Cardiff Metropolitan University to discuss the concept of stateless nations – nations that have not achieved nation-state status for complex historical reasons.

We focus on three examples: Wales, Catalonia, and the Mezzogiorno – the southern half of Italy. Due to technical difficulties, some material...

Podcast: Matrix Podcast
Episode: Authors Meet Critics: "Demos: How the People Ruled Athens" by Daniela Cammack
Pub date: 2026-10-14

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Recorded on October 1, 2026, this video features an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book Demos: How the People Ruled Athens, by Daniela Cammack, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (formerly Classics).

Professor Cammack was joined in conversation by James Porter, Distinguished Professor an...

Podcast: Big Ideas (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Amitav Ghosh and Luke Kemp on learning from collapsed empires
Pub date: 2026-10-12

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From the fall of Rome to the climate crisis unfolding right now, history shows up a common pattern for how empires rise and fall. And two important factors are humans’ relationship with the natural world, as well as the unequal distribution of power and wealth. What can the wreckage of past civilisations teach us about avoiding our o...

Podcast: Drilled: Displaced (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Paradox of Mining Lithium to Save the Planet | The Spill
Pub date: 2026-10-16

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Most proposals to keep fossil fuels in the ground rely on taking new minerals out of the ground — especially lithium, a major component in the batteries powering electric vehicles. In Thea Riofrancos' book, Extraction, she visits the communities most impacted by lithium mining, explores the mineral's politics and history, and proposes a pathway toward harm reduc...

Podcast: Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Inner Life of Paris with Chloe Summers Edmondson
Pub date: 2026-10-12

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In this show, Robert Harrison and Chloe Summers Edmondson discuss the cultural history of Paris, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Dr. Edmondson is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami. She holds a Ph.D. in French and a master’s degree in co...

Podcast: Future Histories (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: S04E15 - Holly Jean Buck on Emerging Technologies and Managing Decline
Pub date: 2026-10-11

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Holly Jean Buck on fossil fuels, development, and the role of emerging technologies in managing decline.

Shownotes Holly Jean Buck

Holly Jean Buck at the Department of Environment and Sustainability, University of Buffalo:

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/environment-sustainability/faculty/faculty-directory/holly-buck.html

Buck, H...

Podcast: Thinking Global (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Athanasios Gkoutzioulis on Hegel and International Relations
Pub date: 2026-10-12

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Athanasios Gkoutzioulis (Forward College) speaks with the Thinking Global team about his work on Hegel and International Relations Theory. Dr. Gkoutzioulis chats with Stephen Satkiewicz about reading Hegel in IR, common misconceptions about Hegel’s thought, what Hegel brings, communitarianism and cosmopolitanism, and much more. Thinking Global is affiliated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠E-International Relations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - the world's leading open access website for students and scholars of international politic...

Podcast: Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Housing Is a Market Power Problem (with Sandeep Vaheesan & Brian Callaci)
Pub date: 2026-10-13

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Housing is still ridiculously expensive, and building more housing is absolutely part of the solution. But supply alone won’t fix a system where landlords have the power to jack up rents with the assistance of algorithms, and developers make more money building for the wealthiest in the market, rather than building homes...

Podcast: Varn Vlog (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Silicon Empires: How Big Tech Is Re-Mapping Geopolitics and Labor with Nick Srnicek
Pub date: 2026-10-15

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In this episode of VarnVlog, host C. Derick Varn sits down with political economist, academic, and author Dr. Nick Srnicek (King's College London) to cut through the extreme hype and knee-jerk dismissals surrounding artificial intelligence.

Together, they unpack the physical and economic reality of modern tech infrastructure—from the massive resource deman...

Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Transhumanism: Silicon Valley
Pub date: 2026-10-14

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Today’s episode in our series about transhumanism and its astonishing influence looks at how it helped build Silicon Valley. David talks to Duncan Bell about what happened when California became the centre of transhumanist operations. Where do drug-taking hippies fit into this story? Who were the cyberpunks and what did they want? How were Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and o...

Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 02 | Unsteady State | Who owns Antarctica?
Pub date: 2026-10-07

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What can Antarctica teach us about statehood and sovereignty?

The continent has no government, no citizens, no permanent human population. Its native inhabitants are mostly seals and penguins who, as far as we know, take little interest in politics.

But according to this week's guest, Antarctica offers a remarkable political experiment, one that challenges some of our mos...

Podcast: The Climate Question (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The battery revolution
Pub date: 2026-10-04

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From Mongolia to Texas, record numbers of lithium-ion batteries are being added to the world's electricity grids - helping to provide more reliable power and speeding up the transition to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.

China is installing over half of these new batteries, often in giant battery farms, followed by the United States and Europe. And wit...