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Stephen Miller Stovepiping False Immigration Statistics in 2018
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/white-house-rejects-report-that-doesnt-match-trumps-facts
Sexual Violence Statistics:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible-rape-cases-in-the-usa-since-1990/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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Link to Ep 1 on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/c6c5W2RsvkE?si=lMuZ1gxIVmNqEX8_
Link to Professor Casagranda's YouTube Page
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:04:57) - Part 1: Arabs, Romans, Seljuks, Popes, and Normans (CE 700-1108)
(01:48:00) - Part 2: 35 Years of Chaos, Assassinations, and Madness
(02:58:47) - Part 3: Intro to Saladin, aka Salah ud-Din
(04:54:28) - Part 4: Conclusion to Salah ud-Din, Finale of the Crusades
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“Worlds on worlds are rolling ever from creation to decay - Like the bubbles on a river: Sparkling, bursting, borne away.”
Percy Shelley, Hellas, 1822
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellas_(poem)
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:35) - What is Romanticism?
(00:33:33) - Folk Culture, the Ballad Tradition, and Robert Burns
(01:11:53) - Wordsworth and Coleridge: Ballads of Nature and the Supernatural
(01:45:19) - Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800: Rustic Life and the Questionable Pleasures of Nature
(02:22:31) - The Descriptive-Meditative Poem and the Divine in Nature
(02:56:32) - Wordsworth and the Invention of Childhood
(03:32:36) - Blake and Infantine Innocence
(04:04:31) - Blake and Satanic Energy
(04:40:58) - The Byronic Hero
(05:17:17) - Byron and Shelley: Darkness and Light
(05:51:15) - Gothic Horrors: Coleridge's “Christabel” and Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein”
(06:23:21) - Keats's (Mock-) Gothic Romances
(06:58:35) - Keats's Great Odes
(07:30:39) - Byron's Comic Epic: Don Juan
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Adam Potkay is a professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a recipient of a 2009 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence. In August 2009, he was designated William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities. In 1996, Professor Potkay and his wife and fellow College of William and Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay were jointly honored with the College of William and Mary’s Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Professor Potkay has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He received his B.A. from Cornell University (1982), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1986), and his Ph.D. from Rutgers University (1990).
A distinguished scholar of eighteenth-century literature and culture, Professor Potkay has published works that include The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume (Cornell University Press, 2000) and The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume (Cornell University Press, 1994). He is the coeditor (with Sandra Burr) of a collection of autobiographies and sermons by some of the earliest black writers in English, Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas (St. Martin’s Press, 1995). He has published scholarly articles and more popular essays in a wide variety of journals, from 18th-Century Studies and Studies in Early Modern Philosophy to Philosophy Now and Raritan Quarterly.
Professor Potkay was recently named a co-winner of the Harry Levin Prize awarded by the American Comparative Literature Association for his book The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2007). The Story of Joy outlines an intellectual and literary history of joy, especially the treatments of joy in literature, philosophy, and religion, with an emphasis on British and German works from the Reformation through the Romantic period.
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“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, and diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
Noam Chomsky, Who Rules the World?, 2017.
Recorded at the New York YM Poetry Center, Broadcast YWHA, February 1970
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Guest Bio:
Michael Albertus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of five books. His newest book, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies, will be published by Basic Books in January 2025. It tells the story of how land came to be power within human societies, how it shapes power, and how its allocation determines the major social ills that societies grapple with.
Albertus studied math, electrical engineering, and political science at the University of Michigan and earned degrees in all three in 2005. He then did a PhD in political science at Stanford University, completing in 2011. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Albertus joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2012 and has since been on sabbatical twice back at Stanford, including as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences. In addition to his books, Albertus is also the author of nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, including at flagship journals like the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and World Politics.He has taught courses to undergraduate, Masters, and PhD students on topics including inequality and redistribution, democracy and dictatorship, comparative politics, and political and economic development and policy in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
The defining features of Albertus' work are his engagement with big questions and puzzles and the ability to join big data and cutting-edge research methods with original, deep on-the-ground fieldwork everywhere from government offices to archives and farm fields. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the Americas, southern Europe, South Africa, and elsewhere. His books and articles have won numerous awards and shifted conventional understandings of democracy, authoritarianism, and the consequences of how humans occupy and relate to the land.-//-
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“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
-Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:16 - The Origins of Western Mythology
00:52:42- The Mythology of Love
01:40:07 - The Arthurian Tradition
02:33:025 - The Grail Legend
03:45:46 - The Forest Adventure of Parsifal
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These talks, entitled "The Western Quest" were delivered in November 1978 at Washington University by Joseph Campbell in front of a live audience.
In the complete works of Joseph Campbell, they are delineated in the catalogue as the Lecture II, 6.1-6.5.
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Congratulations on a great 2024 - a couple of channel-exclusive messages and announcements as we take the podcast into 2025. Cheers to a great year.
References:
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose.
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"The philosopher as we understand him, we free spirits - as the man of the most comprehensive responsibility who has the conscience for the collective evolution of mankind: this philosopher will make use of the religions for his work of education and breeding, just as he will make use of existing political and economic conditions….the will to self-mastery is always increasing - religion presents them with sufficient instigations and temptations to take the road to higher spirituality, to test the feelings of great self-overcoming, of silence and solitude.
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:41) - Nietzsche as Myth and Mythmaker
(00:44:34) - Nietzsche on Truth and Lies
(01:23:54) - Master of Suspicion, the Immoralist
(02:04:23) - The Death of God
(02:46:06) - The Eternal Return (Time is a Flat Circle)
(03:25:04) - The Will to Power
(04:08:08) - Nietzsche as Artist
(04:49:20) - Nietzsche's Bastard Children
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“He no longer cared to live in a house, and he rose once more into the air, this time on the breath of a breeze so sheer and transparent not even the gods felt it. This is the wind that further frees even the free. As his soul rose on that wind, it seemed to expand and flow out in all directions at once. Rising steadily upward, he passed through the arched windows of that celestial mansion and began a journey that would penetrate even the most distant, the most veiled mysteries of heaven. He slipped stealthfully across secret skies, across worlds and all their skies, growing deeper and wider as he did so, traveling beyond the starry reach of any sky, of any universe, to a place where no one could follow. There, lost in the divine and infinite distances of nothingness itself, he too disappeared, his last breath released, like a luminous song, into the void of a transcendent eternity.”
-Astika Royal Mason, A Dream Immortal, 2023References:
“From Here to Enlightenment” - HH the Dalai Lama
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12505636-from-here-to-enlightenment
Ardor - Roberto Calasso
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134839029-ardor-by-roberto-calasso
The Mirror of Simple Souls - Marguerite Porete
https://youtu.be/HvivvGZydFA
Agni in Hinduism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni
Rig Veda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
-Alan Watts -
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“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
-Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947
(00:00:00) - Intro & Host Promo
(00:00:40) - The Stranger, Part 1
(00:30:36) - The Stranger, Part 2
(01:00:33) - The Myth of Sisyphus
(01:29:22) - The Plague & The Fall
(01:58:45) - The Fall, Part 2
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Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon
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