Best Chris Wolff Podcasts (2025)

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Drinks With The Deal: Rob Kindler of Paul Weiss on Career, Connectivity 23:43

2d ago23:43

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Rob Kindler, an M&A partner at Paul Weiss, discusses his career as an M&A lawyer and banker, doing deals at Morgan Stanley and the importance of lifelong connectivity.By The Deal

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The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report 51:19

3d ago51:19

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The narratives surrounding Israel and their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians took decades to create and embed into the West’s psyche. The Holocaust, decades after its end, became a central part of the Jewish and Israeli identity. Enemies of the Israeli state were conflated with Nazis. The physical location of Israel became essential to C…

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251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity 2:51:13

6d ago2:51:13

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Eliezer Yudkowsky is a decision theorist, computer scientist, and author who co-founded and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is best known for his work on the alignment problem—how and whether we can ensure that AI is aligned with human values to avoid catastrophe and harness its power. In this episode, Robinson and…

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Activist Investing Today: Eldar on Anti-Activist Pill Evolution 23:11

8d ago23:11

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When corporations install anti-activist poison pills they are less likely to implement new share buybacks and their operationally-focused capital expenditures tend to be higher, UC Berkeley School of Law professor Ofer Eldar explains.By The Deal

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Facing the Climate Crisis and Human Mortality (w/ Eiren Caffall) | The Chris Hedges Report 46:52

10d ago46:52

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In a world gripped by daily catastrophes, there is one that affects all but lacks the attention it deserves. The climate crisis — pervaded by ecological collapse, war, endless resource accumulation fueled by capitalism — is the issue of our time. The warning signs are there but as author Eiren Caffall tells host Chris Hedges, people are not able to…

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Drinks With The Deal: Joele Frank on Building an M&A PR Behemoth 29:55

16d ago29:55

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Joele Frank discusses how she came to public relations and her approach to growing her own firm.By The Deal

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Behind the Buyouts: Solomon's Shea on Residential and Facilities Services Frenzy 31:36

16d ago31:36

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Solomon Partners head of business services Tim Shea discusses private equity's growing interest in residential and facilities services and dealmaking activity in the market in 2025.By The Deal

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250 - Norman Finkelstein: Trump, Israel, Gaza, and the Criminalization of Dissent 3:00:19

20d ago3:00:19

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Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine. Norman also appeared on episodes 192, 218, 228, and 244, where he addressed the facts and fictions generated by the Israel-Hamas War, October 6th, allegations of genocide and apartheid, Hezbollah, the Ho…

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Drinks With The Deal: Okapi's Goldfarb on Client Service, Firm Launch 37:46

23d ago37:46

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Bruce Goldfarb, CEO and president of Okapi Partners, discusses launching the proxy solicitor in 2008 and how the client service skills he learned working in his father's dry cleaning business are relevant on Wall Street.By The Deal

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The Dark Money Game (w/ Alex Gibney) | The Chris Hedges Report 48:33

24d ago48:33

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On this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with filmmaker Alex Gibney about Gibney’s documentary series The Dark Money Game, which examines the “labyrinth of mirrors” that facilitates untraceable corruption through the American political system. Although both the Democratic and Republican parties have served the interests of th…

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The West Serves as Israel's Police (w/ Richard Medhurst) | The Chris Hedges Report 42:21

1M ago42:21

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Richard Barnard, Sarah Wilkinson, Asa Winstanley and Richard Medhurst. These are some of the canaries in the coal mine for what is to come in the West as the region’s elite quickly becomes Israel’s international police. Medhurst joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to talk about his own experiences in the United Kingdo…

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249 - Chris Hedges: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Rise of American Fascism 3:00:12

1M ago3:00:12

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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times. He has covered numerous wars across the decades, written many books—including America: The Farewell Tour and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America—and has been involved in work for prisoner…

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Drinks With The Deal: Petillo-Decossard Talks Changing Firms, Work-Family Balance 33:55

1M ago33:55

33:55

Kimberly Petillo-Decossard, the co-head of M&A at White & Case, discusses building her career, her decision to change firms and how her husband's willingness to retire from his career as a banker has been pivotal to her success.By The Deal

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Israel’s Eradication of Gaza’s Healthcare System (w/ Dr. Feroze Sidhwa) | The Chris Hedges Report 1:04:58

1M ago1:04:58

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If anyone can witness the genocide in Gaza with utmost clarity, it would be medical professionals working there. Their accounts continue to be as harrowing as those of journalists and Gazans themselves, stripped of rhetoric and left with only raw truth. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a general, trauma and critical care surgeon in California, has been to Gaza t…

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Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report 58:06

1M ago58:06

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Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. Finkelstein and Hedges ass…

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248 - Richard Wolff: Trump, Hitler, and the End of the American Empire 3:11:18

2M ago3:11:18

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Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s eighth appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In his last appearance, episode #243, he and Robinson discussed 2025 and the first weeks of Trump’s p…

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Behind The Buyouts: TSG's LeComte on Consumer M&A in 2025 25:53

2M ago25:53

25:53

TSG managing director Pierre LeComte dives into the consumer-focused firm's investment strategy.By The Deal

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Drinks With The Deal: Debevoise's Regner Discusses Delaware Amendments, Mentor 20:55

2M ago20:55

20:55

William Regner talks about legal amendments enacted last month and what he learned from Debevoise's Meredith Brown.By The Deal

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The Economics of a Dying Empire (w/ Richard Wolff) | The Chris Hedges Report 48:54

2M ago48:54

48:54

“These are levels of craziness that are part of the decline I suspect of all empires when they consume themselves,” Professor Richard Wolff says of America’s current situation in the outset of Donald Trump’s second term. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the history and rationale behind the decisions m…

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Activist Investing Today: Gottfried Seeks Disclosure Regime Revamp for Activism 24:51

2M ago24:51

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A disclosure regime set up for hostile takeovers and tender offers needs to be completely revamped for today’s modern activism campaign environment, defense adviser Keith Gottfried explains.By The Deal

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The Secret Military History of the Internet (w/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report 58:27

2M ago58:27

58:27

The internet, from its inception, was created to be a tool of mass surveillance. It was developed first as a counterinsurgency tool for the Vietnam War and the rest of the Global South, but like many devices of foreign policy naturally it made its way back to U.S. soil. Yasha Levine, in his book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of t…

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247 - Garry Nolan: Aliens | The Case They’re Already Here 3:22:24

2M ago3:22:24

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Dr. Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 350 research articles and is the holder of 50 US patents, and has been honored as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University. He specializes in groundbreaking cancer and immunotherapy rese…

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Drinks With The Deal: Chardan's Barudin Calls SPAC Market Normal 33:17

2M ago33:17

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Managing director Guy Barudin of Chardan Capital Markets discusses how the investment bank has navigated the SPAC sector. Guest hosted by Bill Meagher, senior reporter.By The Deal

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Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley) 59:09

2M ago59:09

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Ever since the first Donald Trump administration, the word “fascism” has dominated discussion around Trump’s policies and ambitions to the extent of semantic satiation. Liberals and leftists often use fascism as a blanket term for anything right-wing politicians represent and Republicans equally use “communism” to denote Democratic or left-wing pol…

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America’s Constitutional Crisis (w/ Katherine Franke) | The Chris Hedges Report 43:18

2M ago43:18

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Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention in a Louisiana ICE facility is a harbinger for a new authoritarian era of the United States. Khalil’s arrest, the capitulation of Columbia University against dissent and protest by its own students and the Trump administration’s threat of stripping the university of $400 million in grants if it does not meet it…

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246 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on General Relativity 4:22:07

3M ago4:22:07

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Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is Tim’s seventh appearance on the show. He last appeared on episode 237 for a masterclass on Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, explaining it from the ground up and elucidating some common misconceptio…

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Drinks With The Deal: Fried Frank’s Luftglass Talks About Mentors, Delaware Law 35:04

3M ago35:04

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Scott Luftglass, an M&A litigator and vice chairman of Fried Frank, talks about mentorship, how he developed a specialty in Delaware corporate litigation and the proposed changes to the state's corporate law.By The Deal

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Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd) | The Chris Hedges Report 50:25

3M ago50:25

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Any account of the decades-long occupation of Palestine from a Palestinian is immediately expected to be refined within a specific lens to appeal to the pathos of Western society. Well meaning activists, journalists and politicians may intend to share the stories of Palestinians, but end up curating them into a digestible format, one adjacent to th…

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245 - Leonard Susskind: String Theory and the Black Hole War 2:00:10

3M ago2:00:10

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Leonard Susskind is Felix Block Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Along with other accomplishments, he is among the fathers of such revolutionary concepts in physics as string theory, black hole complementarity, the holographic principle, and the string-theoretic landscape. He was also the guest on episode #217, where he and Robinson dis…

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How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report 57:27

3M ago57:27

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The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify. If there has been one person who saw this coming, and has taken courageous action over the years to prevent it, it would be Ralph Nader. The former presidential candidate, consumer advocate and corporate critic joins host Chris Hedges on …

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Drinks With The Deal: Lazard's McMaster Talks Corporate Splits, Approach to Banking 27:59

3M ago27:59

27:59

Mark McMaster, the global head of M&A at Lazard, discusses his career as a banker and his work with several companies that have created significant value by breaking themselves up.By The Deal

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Activist Investing Today: Mansouri on 'Defensive Refreshes,' Independent Boards 19:39

3M ago19:39

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Richard Mansouri, who recently joined Arkhouse, discusses the phenomenon of companies replacing problem directors only when activists show up and why board members often just aren't independent.By The Deal

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Drinks With The Deal: Hunton's Danon Talks Firm Culture, Associate Goals 29:33

3M ago29:33

29:33

Sam Danon, the managing partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth, talks about the importance of firm culture, what associates want out of a law firm and how building his litigation practice helped him establish credibility as a manager.By The Deal

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Chris Hedges: The World After Gaza (w/ Chris Hedges) | The Chris Hedges Report 51:38

3M ago51:38

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The Holocaust is the quintessential example of human evil for people in the West. In the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, the atrocity of the Holocaust — genocide — has had a closer proximity both in time and place. Colonialism in Africa, destructive wars in Asia and most recently, genocide in the Middle East, have shaped the live…

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Behind the Buyouts: Searchlight's Frey Unpacks Firm's Fiber Strategy 31:18

3M ago31:18

31:18

Searchlight Capital partner Andrew Frey discusses the firm's investment in Ziply, its preference for backing existing telephone companies over greenfield fiber and trends in telecom deals.By The Deal

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244 - Norman Finkelstein: Donald J. Trump, Mossad Conspiracies in Israel, and the Dying Left 3:42:15

3M ago3:42:15

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Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department, and is best known for his research on Israel and Palestine. In this episode, Norman and Robinson sit down for a discussion about Donald Trump, the latest from Israel, Palestine, and Gaza, and the dying Left. Norman also appeared on episode 192, where he and Robin…

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Behind the Buyouts: American Securities' Wolff on Industrials Rebound 31:04

3M ago31:04

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American Securities president and managing director Scott Wolff dives into the firm's approach to investments and value creation, its specialty chemicals platforms and the industrial sector's slow recovery.By The Deal

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Activist Investing Today: Paul Weiss' Lu Talks Dual-Class, M&A, Multiple Insurgents 16:41

3M ago16:41

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Carmen Lu, a partner focused on activism defense at Paul Weiss, discusses why one should never assume multiclass share companies are 'bulletproof' from activists, and she offers views on M&A and tech activism, plus white squire defenses.By The Deal

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (w/ Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report 52:53

3M ago52:53

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To the West, the concept of the rules-based order functions either as a list on paper to be ignored, or a strict set of laws to be weaponized. Omar El Akkad, Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, has witnessed many instances, both in the West and in the Middle East, where banners of virtue are used to justify hypocritical behavior. El Akkad wr…

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Drinks With The Deal: Cleary's Gerstenzang Talks AI's Effect on Legal Practice 26:29

4M ago26:29

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Michael Gerstenzang, managing partner at Cleary Gottlieb, believes generative AI will fundamentally change the practice of law. Our conversation with Michael is the second in a four-podcast miniseries with law firm leaders.By The Deal

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Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report 55:32

4M ago55:32

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The material needs of working class people in America continue to be obscured and co-opted by politicians and people claiming to know what’s best on both sides of the political aisle. While Republicans and right-wingers address some of these needs head on, they do so by luring people through empty rhetoric and culture war distractions. On the other…

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243 - Richard Wolff: Donald J. Trump and the Decline of the United States 3:40:26

4M ago3:40:26

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Richard Wolff is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor at The New School, where he works on economics in the Marxist tradition. This is Richard’s seventh appearance on Robinson’s Podcast. In his last appearance, episode #230, he and Robinson discussed Richard’s arguments against electing…

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The ‘Diseased Body’ of the Middle East (w/ Farah El-Sharif) | The Chris Hedges Report 45:08

4M ago45:08

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Farah El Sherif, writer, academic and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, is uncompromisingly blunt in her assessment of the Middle East. The decades of repression faced by an entire people have produced a fragmented society—culturally and through colonially imposed borders. To help understand why the Muslim world is so broken, corrupt and full of contra…

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Behind The Buyouts: Brightstar's Weinberg on Generational Wealth Transfer 31:15

4M ago31:15

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Brightstar founder and CEO Andrew Weinberg discusses the firm's investment strategy for family- and founder-owned businesses and its focus on resilient industry verticals.By The Deal

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Drinks With The Deal: Davis Polk's Barr Discusses Compensation, Comcast 30:15

4M ago30:15

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Neil Barr, chair and managing partner of Davis Polk, talks about the logic behind the firm's 2020 change from lockstep compensation, his work for Comcast and why being a tax lawyer helped prepare him to run his firm. Our conversation with Neil is the first in a four-podcast miniseries with law firm leaders.…

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report 59:40

4M ago59:40

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The year 2008 signaled to many the weak foundations of modern capitalism in the hands of the greedy, untethered financial sector—the “vampire squid” investment banks as journalist Matt Taibbi called them. Rising from the ashes of the crash, these banks used government money—”socialism for the bankers”—to enrich themselves and Big Business. This mon…

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A Night That Changed Pflugerville: The 1971 Fire with Ron Moellenberg 21:01

4M ago21:01

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Send us a text On July 20, 1971, a devastating fire swept through downtown Pflugerville, forever changing the trajectory of the Pflugerville Volunteer Fire Department. Retired Chief Ron Moellenberg joins us to recount his firsthand experience of that historic night—how he jumped in to help before ever considering firefighting as a career. With an i…

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242 - Victor Davis Hanson: President Donald J. Trump and the Fate of the United States 1:16:42

4M ago1:16:42

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Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor was presented with the National Humanities Medal in 2007. Victor most recentl…

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War on Gaza (w/ Joe Sacco) | The Chris Hedges Report 52:10

4M ago52:10

52:10

Mary Shelley, in the preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, writes, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” In the chaos of war and inequity, cartoonist Joe Sacco pioneered the first graphic illustration journalism. Sacco has covered some of the most devastating warzones such as in …

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241 - Raphael Bousso: The Cold Truth About Quantum Mechanics 1:37:34

4M ago1:37:34

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Raphael Bousso is the Chancellor’s Chair in Physics at the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, where he leads the Bousso Group in research on quantum gravity and quantum information. He is a renowned string theorist famous also for his development of the string theoretic landscape and the Bousso bound in holography. In this episode, Robinson a…

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