Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert D Mcfadden

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court that overturns Roe v. Wade. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:  Politico published a leaked draft opinion, penned by Justice Samuel Alito, in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion. Natalia referred to historian Jill Lepore's New Yorker article and Niki drew on Jennifer Schuessler's New York Times piece regarding the contested history of abortion. Niki recommended historian Leslie Reagan's book When Abortion Was a Crime, and Natalia cited Jamelle Bouie's New York Times opinion piece on the culture wars.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia commented on the quantity of coverage of Congressman Madison Cawthorn's masculinity, and the silence regarding the salience of his disability. Neil discussed Robert D. McFadden's New York Times obituary, “Judith Jones, Editor of Literature and Culinary Delight, Dies at 93” and the HBO Max show, “Julia.” Niki recommended the new play, “Suffs.”

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 6:52): ────────────────── The U.S. Government Has Written a Check It Can’t Back: President Biden Signs $1.9 Trillion “Stimulus” Bill Into Law PART 2 (6:53 - 14:26): ────────────────── Our Hyper-Partisan Age: There’s a Conflict Between Two Deeply Rooted Worldviews and Everything from Economics to Morality Will Be Affected WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD) The Progressive Democratic Steamroller PART 3 (14:27 - 21:2): ────────────────── The New Pseudo-Religion of Instagram Influencers: Exploring the Intersection of Social Justice Activism and the Wellness Cult NEW YORK TIMES (LEIGH STEIN) The Empty Religions of Instagram PART 4 (21:3 - 24:55): ────────────────── Roger Mudd, Long-Time Television Anchorman, Dies at 93: The Major Media, Then and Now NEW YORK TIMES (ROBERT D. MCFADDEN) Roger Mudd, Anchorman Who Stumped a Kennedy, Is Dead at 93 THINKING IN PUBLIC WITH ALBERT MOHLER Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, and Their Race for the 1980 Democratic Nomination: A Conversation with Political Correspondent Jon Ward

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 8:27): ────────────────── A Milestone in American Morality: Pornographer Larry Flynt, Head of Hustler ‘Empire’ Dies at 78 NEW YORK TIMES (ROBERT D. MCFADDEN) Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78 PART 2 (8:28 - 14:55): ────────────────── The Distortion and Degradation of Desire: The Curse of Pornography, Biblically Defined PART 3 (14:56 - 24:13): ────────────────── The Age of Decriminalization? Oregon Decriminalizes Use of Drugs, Even ‘Hard’ Drugs. What Will That Mean for Society? LOS ANGELES TIMES (ANDREW SELSKY) Oregon first state to decriminalize possession of drugs

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING PART 1 (0:0 - 14:39): ────────────────── Horrifying Honesty from the Culture of Death: Planned Parenthood Isn’t At All Embarrassed About Providing Abortions WASHINGTON POST (KK OTTESEN) Planned Parenthood president: Saying abortion is a small part of what group does is stigmatizing TIME (ABIGAIL ABRAMS) Planned Parenthood Chief: Joe Biden Should Sign A 'Day One' Executive Order to Protect Abortion PART 2 (14:40 - 19:5): ────────────────── Xavier Becerra’s Record Is Clear: The Incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Targets Religious Non-Profits — And Religious Liberty WALL STREET JOURNAL (JAMES PIERESON AND NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY) Xavier Becerra’s Nonprofit Problem PART 3 (19:6 - 23:16): ────────────────── The Importance of Worldview Is Evident Everywhere, Even in the Obituary of a British Double Agent Who Betrayed the West to the Soviet Union — And Feared No Judgment NEW YORK TIMES (ROBERT D. MCFADDEN) George Blake, British Spy Who Betrayed the West, Dies at 98

Since its very inception, America has always had to be on the lookout for spies not just from foreign adversaries, but also from its own citizens. Alger Hiss, along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, all American citizens, were former members of the Communist Party (a party that still exists in America today.) They were all accused of passing American secrets to the U.S.S.R. in the 1940’s and were brought to trial in the early 1950’s. In this episode, we take a deep dive into what those three were accused of, what they were found guilty of, and what their ultimate sentence was. Episode Edits:While most federal crimes have a five-year statute of limitations, acts of espionage generally carry a 10-year statute of limitations.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were married in 1939, the same year Julius graduated from City College of New York.Julius Rosenberg was fired from the Army Signal Corps in 1945 because they found out he was a Communist. Episode Resources: Alger Hiss (1904-1996) Witness by Whittaker ChambersSecrecy: The American Experience by Daniel Patrick MoynihanAlger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason by Christina SheltonInterview with Christina Shelton – video by Simon & Schuster Books (She spent twenty-two years working as a Soviet analyst and a Counterintelligence Branch Chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency.)Hiss and Chambers Face to Face in 1948 – actual video footageAlger Hiss Interview 1970 – video by British Pathé Episode Resources: Julius Rosenberg (1918-1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (1915-1953)The Rosenberg Trial by Jake Kobrick (Research Historian, Federal Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial Center) This is the motherload of reference material.Final Verdict by Walter and Miriam Schneir the rebuttal to their own 1965 book.Invitation to an Inquest by Walter and Miriam SchneirHeir to an Execution: A Granddaughter’s Story – Film DocumentaryExcerpt from David Greenglass obituary in NY Times by Robert D. McFadden Rebuttal to Greenglass obituary in the NY Times

Denis Vrain-Lucas was an undistinguished forger until he met gullible collector Michel Chasles. Through the 1860s Lucas sold Chasles thousands of phony letters by everyone from Plato to Louis the 14th, earning thousands of francs and touching off a firestorm among confused scholars. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll trace the career of the world's most prolific forger. We'll also count Queen Elizabeth's eggs and puzzle over a destroyed car. Intro: In 2011 Australian architect Horst Kiechle sculpted a human torso from paper. English historian Thomas Birch went angling dressed as a tree. Sources for our feature on Denis Vrain-Lucas: Joseph Rosenblum, Prince of Forgers, 1998. Michael Farquhar, A Treasury of Deception, 2005. John Whitehead, This Solemn Mockery, 1973. James Anson Farrer, Literary Forgeries, 1907. Rebekah Higgitt, "'Newton Dépossédé!' The British Response to the Pascal Forgeries of 1867," British Journal for the History of Science 36:131 (December 2003), 437-453. Stephen Ornes, "Descartes' Decipherer," Nature 483:7391 (March 29, 2012), 540. R.A. Rosenbaum, "Michel Chasles and the Forged Autograph Letters," Mathematics Teacher 52:5 (May 1959), 365-366. Ken Alder, "History's Greatest Forger: Science, Fiction, and Fraud along the Seine," Critical Inquiry 30:4 (2004), 702-716. Bruce Whiteman, "Practice to Deceive: The Amazing Stories of Literary Forgery's Most Notorious Practitioners, by Joseph Rosenblum," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 39:1 (2001). "Missives Impossible: Fake News Is Nothing New -- Even Isaac Newton Was a Victim, Says Stephen Ornes," New Scientist 236:3157/3158 (Dec. 23, 2017), 76-77. Steve Kemper, "Signs of the Times," Smithsonian 28:8 (November 1997), 134-140. Cullen Murphy, "Knock It Off," Atlantic Monthly 294:5 (December 2004), 187-188. Paul Gray, "Fakes That Have Skewed History," Time 121:20 (May 16, 1983), 58-61 Matthew Adams, "Archivist Talks About History of Forgery," University Wire, Oct. 24, 2014. Charles Whibley, "Of Literary Forgers," Cornhill Magazine 12:71 (May 1902), 624-636. "Literary Frauds and Forgers," Washington Times, Aug. 13, 1907. "Literary Forgers," New York Times, May 17, 1902. "Personal Gossip," Charleston Daily News, Oct. 20, 1869. Listener mail: Ben Zimmer, "Particitrousers of the Revolutionary Movement," Language Log, Sept. 7, 2015. Ben Zimmer, "Incorrections in the Newsroom: Cupertino and Beyond," Language Log, Feb. 1, 2008. Ben Zimmer, "Hugh Jackilometresan," Language Log, Jan. 4, 2017. Ben Zimmer, "It Was As If a Light Had Been Nookd ...," Language Log, June 1, 2012. Eddie Wrenn, "eBook Replaces All Mentions of the Word 'Kindle' With Rival 'Nook' -- and Ends Up Destroying War and Peace," Daily Mail, June 7, 2012. "Poor Mr Anus, the Council Candidate Given a Bum Deal by Facebook," Guardian, Sept. 28, 2018. Kevin Jackson, "Illusion / Right Before Your Very Eyes: Penn and Teller Do Magic, but the Real Trick Is That They Like to Give the Game Away," Independent, Jan. 30, 1993. Wikipedia, "Japanese Name: Imperial Names" (accessed Oct. 25, 2018). Wikipedia, "Akihito: Ichthyological Research" (accessed Oct. 25, 2018). Russell Goldman, "5 Things to Know About Japan's Emperor and Imperial Family," New York Times, Aug. 8, 2016. Akihito et al., "Speciation of Two Gobioid Species, Pterogobius elapoides and Pterogobius zonoleucus Revealed by Multi-Locus Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Analyses," Gene 576:2 (2016), 593-602. Rob Beschizza, "Joachim Rønneberg, Saboteur Who Wrecked Nazi Nuke Program, Dies at 99," Boing Boing, Oct. 22, 2018. "Joachim Roenneberg: Man Who Stopped Nazi Germany's Nuclear Ambitions Has Died, Aged 99, Norwegian Authorities Confirm," Reuters, Oct. 21, 2018. "Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian Who Thwarted Nazi Nuclear Plan Dies," BBC News, Oct. 22, 2018. Robert D. McFadden, "Joachim Ronneberg, Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb, Dies at 99," New York Times, Oct. 22, 2018. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Christopher McDonough. Here are three corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing ichthyologist and renown 'Shark Lady', Dr. Eugenie Clark, and Emma tells Emlyn about Melissa Cristina Márquez being bitten by a crocodile while filming for Shark Week!    Sources: Main Story - Dr. Eugenie Clark Biography by NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/may15/eugenie-clark.html Natural Shark Repellent is Alluring to Scientists (1981): https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/20/science/natural-shark-repellent-is-alluring-to-scientists.html ‘Shark Lady’ Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has Died: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150225-eugenie-clark-shark-lady-marine-biologist-obituary-science/ Obituary by Robert D. McFadden: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/eugenie-clark-scholar-of-the-life-aquatic-dies-at-92.html Smithsonian biography by Ashley Gallagher: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/eugenie-clark-shark-lady Mote Marine Lab Obituary by Hayley Rutger: https://mote.org/news/article/remembering-the-shark-lady-the-life-and-legacy-of-dr.-eugenie-clark Clark, Eugenie; Gorge, Anita (June 1979). "Toxic soles, Pardachirus marmoratus from the Red Sea and P. pavoninus from Japan, with notes on other species". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 4 (2): 103–123. Clark, Eugenie (Jul 1959). "Instrumental Conditioning of Lemon Sharks"(PDF). Science. 130 (3369): 217–218. doi:10.1126/science.130.3369.217-a. Retrieved 15 Feb 2016. Women who werk: Jezebel article about Melissa Cristina Márquez: https://jezebel.com/marine-biologist-melissa-cristina-marquez-was-bitten-an-1827816706 Music: “Work” by Rihanna “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Pony” by Ginuwine Cover Image: Photo by National Geographic photographer, David Doubilet