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  • Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

    Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy
    Nov 24 2025
    Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, chosen third in the NBA draft in 2011, is the author of "In the Name of Freedom." In his book, he talks about advocating for human rights as a professional athlete. The Turkish American basketball player has been critical of the NBA and Nike for doing business with China and has called out LeBron James for staying silent on China's human rights abuses. He has also testified in front of Congress about the authoritarian rule of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership

    Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership
    Nov 17 2025
    Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) talks about eight Black representatives from South Carolina who served in Congress during the Reconstruction Era. The eight included Joseph Rainey, the first Black politician elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and Robert Smalls, a Civil War hero who fled the Confederacy to fight for the Union Army. Both were former slaves. Rep. Clyburn became the ninth Black congressman from South Carolina nearly a century later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

    Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House
    Nov 10 2025
    White House Historical Association president Stewart McLaurin, author of "The People's House Miscellany," talks about the history of the White House and White House-related trivia. He also discusses the changes that presidents and first ladies have made to the White House's interior and exterior going back to President Thomas Jefferson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 m
  • Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

    Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
    Nov 3 2025
    Journalist Boyce Upholt talks about the history and geography of the Mississippi River and human attempts to control it going back to the Founding Era. He discusses how government-built levees, dikes, and dams have transformed the landscape and ecosystem along the 2,340-mile-long Mississippi and the impact that commerce, floods, and pollution have had on the population along its banks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 3 m
  • Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood

    Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood
    Oct 27 2025
    In his memoir, "Who Knew," media mogul Barry Diller talks about his career in television and Hollywood, and about his personal life and longtime relationship with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Mr. Diller has been an executive at ABC and head of Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox (where he created the Fox television network). While at ABC in the mid-1970s, Mr. Diller was responsible for creating the Movie of the Week and the television miniseries, including "Roots." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin

    Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin
    Oct 20 2025
    Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty discusses her life-long interest in Russia, which she first visited in 1969 as an exchange student. A fluent Russian speaker, she spent 10 years covering Russia for Voice of America and CNN. Besides serving as Moscow Bureau Chief, Jill Dougherty was White House correspondent during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. While in Moscow, she covered the presidencies of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m
  • FEED DROP BOOKNOTES+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

    FEED DROP BOOKNOTES+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
    Oct 13 2025
    Sir Richard J. Evans has been writing about Germany and Adolf Hitler for his entire professional life. He was knighted in Britain in 2012 for his service to scholarship. From 2003-2008, Professor Evans published a trilogy of the Third Reich with a total of over 2,500 pages. His latest book is titled "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich." In his preface, Sir Richard, a former professor at Cambridge University writes: "The individuals who stand at the center of this book range from the top to the bottom, from Hitler all the way down to the lowest of the Nazi party." There are 22 chapters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 1 m
  • Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"

    Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"
    Oct 6 2025
    Critic and opinion writer Christopher Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, recommends 13 novels with conservative themes that, he says, aren’t widely known by conservatives. In his book "13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read," the former English professor discusses books by Walter Scott, George Eliot, P.D. James, Zora Neale Hurston, and others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 5 m