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The Humanist Report

Mike Figueredo

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The Humanist Report is a progressive political podcast that analyzes political news stories through the lens of humanism. This podcast is hosted by Mike Figueredo, a Ph.D student of public policy and political activist.
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Humanist Trek

Sarah Ray & Allie Ashmead

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Humanist Trek is a weekly #StarTrek podcast about the humanism in Star Trek. Hosted by Sarah Ray 🏳️‍⚧️👩🏼 and Allie Ashmead ✊🏿👩🏿‍🦱 Available at http://www.humanisttrek.com and everywhere you replicate your podcasts!
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Glass City Humanist

Douglas Berger

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Explaining Humanist values, how we can live our values to support social justice issues, and responding to science denying Christian Nationalists bent on smashing the wall between church and state. Human problems require human solutions. There will be interviews, from time to time, with Humanists and other secular people in Northwest Ohio and beyond.
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Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-hosted by Brendan Cooney and Andrew Kliman. We intend to release new episodes every two weeks. Radio Free Humanity is sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative (https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org), but the views expressed by the co-hosts and guests of Radio Free Humanity are their own. They do not necessarily reflect the views and positions of MHI. Click here for a list ...
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What I Believe

Humanists UK

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In this podcast, Chief Executive of Humanists UK Andrew Copson talks to humanists today about what they believe, to understand more about the values, convictions, and opinions they live by.
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New Humanists

Ancient Language Institute

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Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.
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Secular Humanist and Skeptic Ruby Pommer, (she/her/hers), began the show with a friend, but when they decided podcasting wasn’t for them, she turned it towards her personal passions. Science and Skepticism are her main jam. The truth matters, no matter if we like it or not. It can be political and harsh at times, but will always be based on scientific skepticism. #skeptic #skepticism #beskeptical
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BC Humanists Podcast

BC Humanist Association

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We are building a community based on reason and compassion in BC through education, outreach, support, and advocacy. This podcast contains recordings of speakers at our weekly Sunday Meetings in Vancouver. Some speakers may use profanity or discuss explicit content.
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The Humanist Hour (HH) Audio Podcast is a monthly one-hour talk show produced by the American Humanist Association. Every episode of the HH Audio Podcast explores a different area of humanist thought, from politics to pop culture.
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Husband and Wife are two non-believers who have always wanted to read the Bible. Why would we subject ourselves to this you might ask? From our perspective it helps us understand where the Christians around us, here in the Midwest, are coming from when they quote the Bible at us. Husband is basically an Atheist and wife leans Agnostic but mostly Atheist and we’re just having some fun at the Bible’s expense while learning more about what our neighbors claim we’re going to hell over. Join Acas ...
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A podcast dedicated to "thinking slow" about how different topics relate to being more humanist in our approach to a complexly hurting world. Join us as we look at how everyday objects and seemingly straightforward topics can all reveal deeper questions about how to advance better policy and move among one another with greater compassion and curiosity.
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Humanist Experience

Atheists United Studios

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The Humanist Experience is a unique podcast series where we seek out radical experiences that educate our emotions and expand our world. Our commitment to social change motivates us to look for ways to effectively connect people to contemporary issues—and persuade them to become changemakers! The Humanist Experience uses experiential learning and storytelling to do just that. We see story, context, and experience as crucial tools for real understanding. Our podcast uses these tools to provid ...
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This is the audio feed for the hangout portion of Jeremiah's YouTube channel, Jerb the Humanist. In it, Jeremiah talks to activists and other folks doing important work online and in meatspace.
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An Eclectic Humanist

eclectichumanist

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Greetings, folks. In this podcast, I hope to explore the various facets of humanism from as many perspectives as I can manage. Some episodes will focus on the humanism as it has developed here in the West while others will look farther afield, sometimes to places that might surprise you. Always, though, the podcast will keep an eye toward how these ideas relate to contemporary life, and toward defending humanism against the anti-humanist discourses of fundamentalist religion and authoritaria ...
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Tune in each week to hear Unitarian Universalist sermons and conversations from First Unitarian Church of Dallas, a liberal religious presence in Dallas since 1899. Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter, Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald, and Rev. Beth Dana will inspire you with messages that are rationally spiritual and joyfully deep. No matter where you are in the world, you are invited to bring your whole self: your full identity, your questioning mind, and your open heart.
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The Christian Humanist

Damian Tharcisius

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Hello Everyone. Welcome to the Christian Humanist Podcast. I am Damian. If you're interested in culture, religion, history, liberty, society, and above all humanity, then you are in the right place. The focus here is on the intersection between these realities, and how they pertain to questions that affect you and me: The minds who are left to live in this challenging but promising, tough but rewarding world. One that is ever-changing. Best D
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With Reason

New Humanist magazine | The RA

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Intelligent thinking for turbulent times, from New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association. Interviews with writers, researchers and academics who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, belief, race, politics, sex, technology, science, work and more. Hosted by New Humanist editor Samira Shackle, deputy editor Niki Seth-Smith, and series producer Alice Bloch.
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Core Curriculum

The Christian Humanist Radio Network

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Core Curriculum reads good books slowly, inviting hosts from Christian Humanist Radio Network shows to conversations about books from Columbia University's Great Books curriculum.
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Humanitie Podcast

Humanist Society Scotland

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Humanitie Podcast is the regular audio update from Humanist Society Scotland hosted by Stuart Dougan. With new episodes every month, our podcast will give an insight into of the work that we do; from campaigning on important social issues, to providing humanist ceremonies across Scotland.
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The most profound discovery of our time is that life is meaningless. We are never meant to find the meaning of life instead we are here to create the meaning in life. It's about growing together. We must learn to go beyond self-centeredness to create a room within ourselves for others. The Humanist Dude podcast takes you on a journey of self exploration where one might discover the ideas that were hidden inside of you for decades. A journey to find calm, self-understanding, and connection – ...
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A podcast by members of the Humanist Association of Ghana. Our goal is to promote critical thinking and discuss social issues using reason. Disclaimer: Please note that the views shared in this podcast are not the views of the Humanist Association of Ghana or all of its members
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The Freed Thinker

Tyler Vela

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Bringing you discussions, interactions, reviews and content related to the best academic literature on Biblical, theological and philosophical issues today from a former Reformed Protestant turned Classical Theistic Humanist.
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Babelfish

Kirstine Kærn

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I talk to humanists, freethinkers and atheists around the world...They tell me their lifestories, how they became non-beliveries and how it is to be a non-believer in a pre-dominantly religous world. We talk about their involvement in the humanist movement, what challenges they face and what risks they take...The purpose of this podcast is to give a voice to non-believers...Follow Babelfish on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/babelfishthepodcast... and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.c ...
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Join me for a non sequitur playful moment where I attempt to inspire creativity by talking about ideas for T-shirts and possible first sentences for your personal writing projects. This is a just some guy production brought to you by the Hopefulhumanist Cafe. Cover art photo by https://www.instagram.com/jacktthunter/
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Counterturn

Counterturn

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Counterturn brings life to art, and art to life. Join Nelson Rufatt and guests, as they talk music, literature, science, history, and all the pursuits of the humanist heart.
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Heresy Now!

Center for Inquiry

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A roundup of news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community. Hosted by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Presented by the Center for Inquiry. Learn more at centerforinquiry.org
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Special thanks to Patrons Bruce and Chris for joining us this week to play TrekWord and celebrate the end of TNG Season 1! Check out the Patron-Only Video version of this episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/129948816?utm_campaign=postshare_creator Visit our website at humanisttrek.com Support the show at patreon.com/humanisttrek Pick up your m…
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Radio Free Humanity Ep. 138: “Episode 138: Confronting the Paranormal Fringe (with Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling).” The co-hosts welcome author Hongoltz-Hetling to discuss his latest book. Current-events segment: Xi outmaneuvers Trump. Radio Free Humanity is a podcast covering news, politics and philosophy from a Marxist-Humanist perspective. It is co-h…
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We look at the current legislative climate in Ohio, with a focus on the extreme measures being proposed and enacted. The Ohio State legislature this session is exhibiting a troubling trend towards more radical policies, including the controversial SB1, dubbed the Higher Education Destruction Act. This bill threatens to undermine academic freedom an…
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Send us a text Clement of Alexandria was one of the many luminaries of the Catechectical School of Alexandria, one of the early church's most distinguished centers of learning and theology. His argument that all truth, whether found in the Bible or in Greek philosophy, issues from a single source, namely Christ, potentially marks him as one of the …
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Flying Scrolls, Basket Ladies & Divine Mood Swings: Zechariah’s Weirdest Hits (Ch. 5–8 Recap + Bonus Blasphemy) 📝 Episode Summary: Yeah, we’re late. Divine inspiration doesn’t always run on schedule—and neither do we. But we’re back to serve up a hot, heretical mess of Zechariah chapters 5 through 8, plus two surprise special episodes that add a sp…
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This week, we crack open Zechariah Chapter 11 — where God trades in thunderbolts for theater, casting Himself as a vindictive shepherd with a flair for symbolism and sock-puppet-level subtlety. First, He torches the forests of Lebanon like a pissed-off Smokey the Bear. Then He slaughters metaphorical sheep with the kind of poetic rage only a deity …
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In Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums (Penguin, 2025), zoologist Jack Ashby shares hidden stories behind the world’s iconic natural history museums, from enormous mounted whale skeletons to cabinets of impossibly tiny insects. Look closely and all is not as it seems: these museums are not as natural, Ashby sho…
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Feedback: Quote of the Week: Booker T. Washington Strategies for Black Power: What we can Learn from Black Philosophy: Unmasking the News: Trump Targets Black Leadership in Military: DOJ Investigates Chicago Hiring Practices: Texas Mandates Ten Commandments in Classrooms: Good News Story: Morehouse Honors Lynched Student: Bible Study with an Atheis…
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Andrew Copson speaks to acclaimed novelist and Humanists UK patron Jane Fallon about the beliefs that have shaped her journey from vegetarianism to veganism, her lifelong love for animals, and her transition from TV producer to the author of 14 bestselling books. What I Believe was the title of two separate essays by the philosopher Bertrand Russel…
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Same God, Different Drama: A Deep Dive into the Abrahamic Split Are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all just arguing over the same sky daddy? In this hilariously heretical deep-dive, our hosts wrestle with the question: Do all three Abrahamic religions worship the same God, or is it just celestial brand confusion? Spoiler: it's yes... and also har…
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As beloveds in our communities are scapegoated and attacked by the current administration, what does UUism call us to embrace and respond? As we turn toward Pride month, we will learn more about the UU commitment to pledge our collective faithful efforts to affirm and celebrate trans, nonbinary, intersex, and gender diverse people within and… Read …
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In todays theological roast, Husband and Wife of Sacrilegious Discourse unpack the soggy, self-contradictory mess that is Zechariah Chapter 10—and spoiler alert: Yahweh is still mad, still yelling at clouds, and still promising things he won't deliver. We kick things off with some biblical weather forecasting (“ask the Lord for rain in the spring,”…
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It’s Greece, Baby: Zechariah, Philosophy, and the Prequel to Jesus Strap in, heathens — it’s our first live Sunday show on Discord, and we’re ditching American politics for some good ol’ biblical timeline chaos. In this episode, we break down where the hell ancient Greece fits into the biblical soap opera, and spoiler alert: the timeline’s a mess, …
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In this Unitarian Universalist Memorial Day sermon, Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald reflects on the legacy of faith, resistance, and sacrifice. Drawing on the stories of Michael Servetus and John Calvin, and the painful truths of war, from the Civil War to World War I to modern-day Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, this sermon challenges us to honor the fallen not j…
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Welcome to the Old Testament’s version of a Quentin Tarantino fever dream. In this episode, the hosts dive into Zechariah Chapter 9, where God shifts from happy grandpa handing out blessings to full-blown apocalyptic warlord. We leave the lukewarm fuzzies of Chapter 8 behind and charge into the chaos of Second Zechariah, where it’s less “peace on E…
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Quote of the Week: Mikki Kendall Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: Racist to the Core: They Not Like Us: The Murder of the First Amendment: Good News: You Don’t Need Millions to Start—Just the Mindset and a Strategy: Bible Study with an Atheist: A Genocidal Myth Dressed in Nonsens…
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Skeptic/Religion: The Taxpayer Funded Corrupt Mormon School Environment: Permafrost Craters Researched: Lava Lights & Clams used by industries Positive: Missing Hiker Found https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayers-funded-this-trashy-failing?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-private-…
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When the Ferengi just didn't work out as the new baddies, Star Trek calls up its ex -- the Romulans. But this already tense reintroduction of the Romulans gets more complicated when Dr. Crusher thaws out some 20th Century Earth people found frozen in a derlict space craft. Special thanks to the wonderful Susan Sackett for an incredible surprise app…
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Flying Scrolls & Freaky Chariots: Zechariah’s Fever Dream Continues (Ch. 5–8 Q&A) 📝 Episode Summary: In this irreverent dive into Zechariah chapters 5–8, your favorite snarky podcast hosts unpack divine pizza rolls, slut-shamed basket ladies, and horse-powered prophetic metaphors — all while trying to make sense of a prophet’s acid trip disguised a…
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The first book to combine exquisite cartographical charts of the Moon with a thorough exploration of the Moon’s role in popular culture, science, and myth. President John F. Kennedy’s rousing “We will go to the Moon” speech in 1961 before the US Congress catalyzed the celebrated Apollo program, spurring the US Geological Survey’s scientists to map …
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Andrew Copson speaks to Labour peer, campaigner, humanist, and former child refugee Lord Alf Dubs who shares the beliefs that have shaped his lifelong quest for social justice, including a childhood encounter with discrimination in 1940s UK and finding himself unexpectedly part of history as a hospital patient on the day the NHS began. He also open…
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In this episode of Tiny Pulpit Talks, Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter, Rev. Beth Dana, and Rev. T. J. FitzGerald discuss religious trauma and how it continues to impact the spiritual and emotional well-being of many people, especially in communities like ours in North Texas. They explore what healing can look like within a Unitarian Universalist context, wh…
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💡 Science Sees the Light – And So Do We! What really happens when you die? No, seriously—can science measure the moment your lights go out? In this snark-filled special episode of Sacrilegious Discourse, we dive deep into the recent scientific study on ultra-weak photon emissions (UPEs) observed in euthanized mice and injured plants—aka: your body’…
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Do not think any man happy until he has died, free from suffering. That line, or something like it depending on the translator, ends the grand tragedy Oedipus Tyrannous, Oedipus the King. Such meditations on death give us memorable aphorisms, and they come to us not only from the Greeks or the Egyptians but from the teachers of Israel as well. Amon…
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🎙️ Episode Summary: Zechariah Chapter 8 – Be Happy or God’ll Smite Ya! After a brief hiatus (or let’s be real—another chaotic life intermission), we’re back with our regularly scheduled snark and sacrilege. This week, we dive into Zechariah Chapter 8, where God pulls a total PR 180. One minute he's a wrathful sky daddy dishing out plagues like Opra…
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Today we learn how computers learned to talk with Benjamin Lindquist, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University’s Science in Human Culture program. Ben is the author “The Art of Text to Speech,” which recently appeared in Critical Inquiry, and he’s currently writing a history of text-to-speech computing. In this conversation, we explore:…
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Become Strategic or Die: Learn from Everything Part I: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Cycle, Black Progress, White Backlash: Too Much Like Right: Predators in the Pulpit: Good News: Unleashing Black Genius: Bible Study with an Atheist: The Virgin Birth: A Sacred Lie Dressed in Ancient Superstition: Closing: Power Concedes Nothin…
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Hosts Nina Dos Santos and Owen Bennett Jones explore the mounting political and financial pressures confronting higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S., it unpacks the unprecedented clash between the Trump administration and Harvard, raising broader questions about academic freedom, ideological conformity, and the role of govern…
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When Admiral Qanon's warnings come back a few episodes later, Star Trek sets a high bar for standards of evidence. But when the conspiracy theory proves real, Picard and company transport onto the set of Alien. How much did Riker enjoy blowing Remmick to bits? Will these bugs in a box ever attempt another takeover of the Federation? Will your racis…
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The library is an important partner in academic success for students and professors. So why do so many people overlook this key resource? Karen McCoy takes us inside her job on two college campuses, unpacking what librarians do, and why she’s so happy to help everyone find exactly what they need. Our guest is: Karen B. McCoy, who is a librarian cur…
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This is the time of year when we honor the youth of our church and celebrate their wisdom, courage, and emerging sense of identity within our Unitarian Universalist community. In this episode of Tiny Pulpit Talks, Rev. T. J. Fitzgerald and Rev. Beth Dana explore the significance of our Coming of Age and Bridging traditions. They reflect on how thes…
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Religious Syncretism vs Colonialism: WTF Is the Difference? Get ready for a deep-dive bonus episode straight from the godless underground of Sacrilegious Discourse. We’re talking about religious syncretism—what it is, what it definitely isn’t, and how colonialism tries to cosplay as peaceful cultural blending (spoiler: it's not). From Gnostic Chris…
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A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean (U Chicago Press, 2024) traces the history of botanical illustration in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the …
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Co-hosts Andrew Kliman and Gabriel Donnelly dive into the archives! This is the first of a two-part discussionof the text of a presentation that Raya Dunayevskaya gave in the early 1950s, titled “Form and Plan.” Sheargues that the alternatives are not whether or not to plan, but the “despotic” plan of capital vs. the cooperativeplan of “freely asso…
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Become Strategic or Die: We Have Always Been at War Part II: Demystifying the Nonsense, they call the News: The Willfully Ignorant: Destruction of a People (Genocide in Gaza): Men Choose God’s Spokesman: Good News: A Rose Growing in a Pile of Shit: Bible Study with an Atheist: Divine Injustice: Closing: Sources: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/wri…
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