There are no people in slack’s collective.
Sometimes it takes an outsider to see a culture clearly. Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Ninth Symphony was an ode to what American music could become.
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Was the Privilegium Maius true history? Class 12 traces the Habsburg family and their impact on Europe.
Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. What does it mean for a nation to exist? Is this a matter of structures, actions, or both? Why has the existence of Ukraine occasioned such controversy? In what ways are Polish, Russian, and Jewish self-understanding dependent upon experiences in Ukraine? Just how and when did a modern Ukrainian nation emerge? For that matter, how does any modern nation emerge? Why some and not others? Can nations be chosen, and can choices be decisive? If so, whose, and how? Ukraine was the country most touched by Soviet and Nazi terror: what can we learn about those systems, then, from Ukraine? Is the post-colonial, multilingual Ukrainian nation a holdover from the past, or does it hold some promise for the future?
Course reading list: https://snyder.substack.com/p/syllabus-of-my-ukraine-lecture-class
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Dan embarks on a quest, three years in the making, to invent a new pasta shape, actually get it made, and actually sell it.
https://www.sporkful.com/mission-impastable-1-spaghetti-sucks/
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Are most modern problems caused by selfishness or a <em>lack </em>of it? Ayn Rand, a Russian American philosopher and writer, would say it's the latter — that selfishness is not a vice but a virtue — and that capitalism is the ideal system. Everyone from Donald Trump to Alan Greenspan to Brad Pitt have sung Ayn Rand's praises. The Library of Congress named her novel, <em>Atlas Shrugged,</em> the second most influential book in the U.S. after the Bible. Ayn Rand wasn't politically correct, she was belligerent and liked going against the grain. And although she lived by the doctrine of her own greatness, she was driven by the fear that she would never be good enough. <br/><br/>In this episode, historian Jennifer Burns will guide us through Rand's evolution and how she eventually reshaped American politics, becoming what Burns calls "a gateway drug to life on the right."
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Guest: Judith Flanders is a social historian. She is a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham. Her books include the bestselling The Invention of Murder, Inside the Victorian Home, and her latest, A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order. Click Here to Support KPFA
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-december-10-2020/
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During the parade of nations at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, Greece’s athletes entered the stadium first, as per a long-standing tradition. But instead of following in alphabetical order, other countries came out in a sequence corresponding to the number of strokes each nation’s name had in Chinese characters. Jamaica, for example, was followed by
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In the early 1960s, the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure their morale: Was the relentless U.S. bombing pushing them to the brink of capitulation?
Saigon, 1965 is the story of three people who got caught up in that effort: a young Vietnamese woman, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and a brilliant Russian émigré. All saw the same things. All reached different conclusions. The Pentagon effort, run by the RAND Corporation, was one of the most ambitious studies of enemy combatants ever conducted—and no one could agree on what it meant.
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US House Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Zeeland) talked about a potential government shutdown, the situation with Russia, and cryptocurrency during his weekly interview on Dec. 2, 2021.
https://omny.fm/shows/whtcs-morning-news-podcast/chat-with-bill-huizenga-dec-2
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University whose work focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and politics in American life. Her new book
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
traces the development of a white, milit
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