Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.
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Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.
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June 12, 2024
Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson Are Reunited!
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April 4, 2024
Daron Acemoglu on Marxism and AI
<p>Are we, in fact, living in a time of revolution? What it means and what you can do about it, according to one of MIT’s greatest thinkers.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/daron-acemoglu/power-and-progress/9781541702530/?lens=publicaffairs">Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity</a></p>
April 3, 2024
The Marxes
<p>A man who looms as large as Karl Marx needed multiple Significant Others (although when it came to wives, he only had one). </p><p>Starring Ted Danson as Karl Marx, Maddie Ogden as Jenny von Westphalen, and Patton Oswalt as Friedrich Engels.</p><p>Also featuring Katie Sharer and Matt O’Brien.</p><p> </p><p>Source List:</p><p>Love and Captial: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel, ©2011, Hachette Book Group</p><p>Engels by Terrell Carver, ©2011, Oxford University Press</p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772">Revolutions Podcast</a>, Season 10</p><p>Reason.org, <a href="https://reason.com/2018/10/14/dont-blame-karl-marx-for-cultu/">Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’</a></p><p>The Washington Post, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/love-and-capital-karl-and-jenny-marx-and-the-birth-of-a-revolution-by-mary-gabriel/2011/08/29/gIQAwSsUkL_story.html">“Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” by Mary Gabriel</a></p><p>National Library of Medicine, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447947/">Friedrich Engels: Businessman and Revolutionary</a></p><p>Britannica, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Young-Hegelians">Young Hegelians</a></p><p>CCSNA.org, <a href="https://www.ccsna.org/duke-of-argyll">Duke of Argyll</a></p><p>Marxist.org, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse3.htm">Yearning: A Romance</a>, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/index.htm">The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism</a>, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch07.htm">The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852</a></p><p>History.com, <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/paris-commune-1871">Paris Commune of 1871</a></p>
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