Podcasts about statesmen

“The Jewish voice must be heard, not because it's more right or less right, but it's there. The suffering is there, the grief is there, and human grief is human grief.” As Jews around the world mark Tisha B'Av, we're joined by Columbia University professor and award-winning poet Owen Lewis, whose new collection, “A Prayer of Six Wings,” offers a powerful reflection on grief in the aftermath of October 7th. In this conversation, Lewis explores the healing power of poetry in the face of trauma, what it means to be a Jewish professor in today's campus climate, and how poetry can foster empathy, encourage dialogue, and resist the pull of division. *The views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views or position of AJC.   Listen – AJC Podcasts: The Forgotten Exodus: Untold stories of Jews who left or were driven from Arab nations and Iran People of the Pod:  Latest Episodes:  An Orange Tie and A Grieving Crowd: Comedian Yohay Sponder on Jewish Resilience From Broadway to Jewish Advocacy: Jonah Platt on Identity, Antisemitism, and Israel Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: The Dinah Project's Quest to Hold Hamas Accountable Follow People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org If you've appreciated this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Transcript of the Interview:   Owen Lewis:   Overheard in a New York Restaurant.   I can't talk about Israel tonight.    I know.    I can't not talk about Israel tonight.    I know.    Can we talk about . . .   Here? Sure. Let's try to talk about here.   Manya Brachear Pashman:   On Saturday night, Jews around the world will commemorate Tisha B'av. Known as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, the culmination of a three week period of mourning to commemorate several tragedies throughout early Jewish history.  As a list of tragedies throughout modern Jewish history has continued to grow, many people spend this day fasting, listening to the book of Lamentations in synagogue, or visiting the graves of loved ones. Some might spend the day reading poetry.  Owen Lewis is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University. But he's also the award-winning author of four poetry collections which have won accolades, including the EE Cummings Prize and the Rumi Prize for Poetry.  His most recent collection, A Prayer of Six Wings documents in verse his grief since the October 7 terror attacks. Owen is with us now to talk about the role of poetry in times of violence and war, what it's been like to be a Jewish professor on the Columbia campus, and a Jewish father with children and grandchildren in Israel. And also, how to keep writing amid a climate of rising antisemitism. Owen, welcome to People of the Pod. Owen Lewis:   Thank you so much, Manya. Manya Brachear Pashman:   So you opened with that short poem titled overheard in a New York restaurant. I asked you to read that because I wanted to ask whether it reflected how you felt about poetry after October 7.  Did you find yourself in a place where you couldn't write about Israel, but yet you couldn't not write about Israel? Owen Lewis:   Among the many difficult things of that First Year, not only the war, not only the flagrant attacks on the posters of the hostages one block from where I live, 79th and Broadway, every day, taken down every day, put back up again, defaced. It was as if the war were being fought right here on 79th and Broadway.  Another aspect that made this all so painful was watching the artistic and literary world turn against Israel. This past spring, 2000 writers and artists signed a petition, it was published, there was an oped about it in The Times, boycotting Israeli cultural institutions.  And I thought: artists don't have a right to shut their ears. We all need to listen to each other's grief, and if we poets and artists can't listen to one another, what do we expect of statesmen? Statesmen, yeah, they can create a ceasefire. That's not the same as creating peace. And peace can only come when we really listen to each other. To feel ostracized by the poetry community and the intellectual community was very painful. Fortunately, last summer, as well as this past summer, I was a fellow at the Yetzirah conference. Yetzirah is an organization of Jewish American poets, although we're starting to branch out. And this kind of in-gathering of like-minded people gave me so much strength.  So this dilemma, I can't talk about it, because we just can't take the trauma. We can't take hearing one more thing about it, but not talk about it…it's a compulsion to talk about it, and that's a way to process trauma. And that was the same with this poetry, this particular book.  I feel in many ways, it just kind of blew through me, and it was at the same time it blew through me, created this container in which I could express myself, and it actually held me together for that year. I mean, still, in many ways, the writing does that, but not as immediately and acutely as I felt that year.  Manya Brachear Pashman:   This book has been praised as not being for the ideological but for the intellectually and emotionally engaged. So it's not it's not something that ideologically minded readers will necessarily be able to connect to, or is it actually quite the opposite?  Owen Lewis:  Well, it's very much written from the gut, from the experience, from in a sense, being on the ground, both in Israel and here in New York and on campus, and trying to keep a presence in the world of poetry and writers. So what comes from emotion should speak to emotion. There are a few wisps of political statements, but it's not essentially a politically motivated piece of writing.  I feel that I have no problem keeping my sympathies with Israel and with Jews. I can still be critical of aspects of the government, and my sympathies can also be with the thousands of Palestinians, killed, hurt, displaced. I don't see a contradiction. I don't have to take sides.  But the first poem is called My Partisan Grief, and it begins on October 7. I was originally going to call the bookMy Partisan Grief, because I felt that American, Jewish, and Israeli grief was being silenced, was being marginalized. And I wanted to say, this is our grief. Listen to it. You must listen to this. It doesn't privilege this grief over another grief. Grief is grief. But I wanted ultimately to move past that title into something broader, more encompassing, more humanitarian. Manya Brachear Pashman:  And did that decision come as the death toll in Gaza rose and this war kept going and going and the hostages remained in captivity, did that kind of sway your thinking in terms of how to approach the book and frame it?  Owen Lewis:  Yes, but even more than those kind of headlines, which can be impersonal, the poetry of some remarkable Palestinian poets move me into a broader look. Abu Toha was first one who comes to mind Fady Joudah, who's also a physician, by the way. I mean his poetry, I mean many others, but it's gorgeous, moving poetry.  Some of it is a diatribe, and you know, some of it is ideological, and people can do that with poetry, but when poetry really drills down into human experience, that's what I find so compelling and moving. And that's what I think can move the peace process. I know it sounds quite idealistic, but I really think poetry has a role in the peace process here. Manya Brachear Pashman:  I want to I want to unpack that a little bit later. But first, I want to go back to the protests that were roiling Columbia's campus over the past year and a half, two years. What was it like to be, one, writing this book, but also, teaching on campus as a Jewish professor?  Owen Lewis:  Most of my teaching takes place up at the Medical Center at 168th Street. And there I have to say, I didn't feel battered in any way by what was happening. I had a very shocking experience. I had a meeting that I needed to attend on, or that had been scheduled, I hadn't been quite paying attention. I mean, I knew about the encampments, but I hadn't seen them, and I come face to face with a blocked campus. I couldn't get on the campus. And what I'm staring at are signs to the effect, send the Jews back to Poland. I'm thinking, Where am I? What is this? I mean, protest, sure. I mean we expect undergraduates, we expect humans, to protest when things really aren't fair. But what did this have to do…why invoke the Holocaust and re-invoke it, as if to imply the Jews should be punished? All Jews.  And what it fails to account for are the diversity of Jewish opinion. And you know, for some Jews, it's a black or white matter, but for most thinking Jews that I know, we all struggle very much with a loyalty to Israel, to the Jewish people, to the homeland and larger humanitarian values. So that was quite a shock. And I wrote a piece called “The Scars of Encampment,” in which I say, I can't unsee that. " And I go to campus, and, okay, it's a little bit more security to get onto campus. It's a beautiful campus. It's like an oasis there, but at the same time, I'm seeing what was as if it still is. And in a way, that's the nature of trauma that things from the past just roil and are present with almost as much emotion as when first encountered. Manya Brachear Pashman:  So did you need to tune out those voices, or did that fuel your work? Owen Lewis:  No, that fueled my work. I mean, if anything, it made me feel much more, a sense of mission with this book. And a commitment, despite criticism that I may receive, and no position I take is that outlandish, except to sympathize with the murdered on October 7th, to sympathize with their families, to resonate with what it must be like to have family members as hostages in brutal, brutal conditions. Not knowing whether they're dead or alive. So I really felt that the Jewish voice must be heard, not because it's more right or less right, but it's there. The suffering is there, the grief is there, and human grief is human grief. Manya Brachear Pashman:  Owen, if you wouldn't mind reading another poem from the collection. Of course, many of us remember the news out of Israel on Thanksgiving Day 2023, right after October 7th. And this poem is titled, “Waiting for the Next Release, Reported by the New York Times, November 23 2023”. Owen Lewis:  Waiting For the Next Release, Reported N.Y. Times, Nov. 23, 2023    Maybe tomorrow, if distrust  doesn't flare like a missile,  some families will be reunited.    How awful this lottery of choice; Solomon would not deliberate. Poster faces always before my eyes,   Among them, Emma & Yuli Cunio.  Twins age 3, Raz Katz-Asher, age 4, Ariel Bibas, another four year old.    What do their four year old minds make  of captivity? What will they say? What would my Noa say?    What will the other Noas say?  Remembering Noa Argamani, age 26,  thrown across the motorcycle    to laughter and Hamas joy.   I have almost forgotten this American day,  Thanks- giving,   With its cornucopian harvests,  I am thinking of the cornucopian  jails of human bounty.    (What matter now who is to blame?) Manya Brachear Pashman:  Really beautiful, and it really captures all of our emotions that day. You have children and grandchildren in Israel, as I mentioned and as you mentioned in that poem, your granddaughter, Noa. So your grief and your fear, it's not only a collective grief and fear that we all share, but also very personal, which you weave throughout the collection.  In another poem, “In a Van to JFK”, you talk about just wanting to spend one more hour with your family before they fly off to Israel. And it's very moving.  But in addition to many of the poems, like the one you just read, they are based on and somewhat named for newspaper headlines, you said that kind of establishes a timeline. But are there other reasons why you transformed those headlines into verse? Owen Lewis:  Yes, William Carlos Williams in his poem Asphodel, says, and I'm going to paraphrase it badly. You won't get news from poems yet, men die every day for wanting what is found there. And I think it's a very interesting juxtaposition of journalism and poetry. And I mean, I'm not writing news, I'm writing where my reflections, where my heart, goes in response to the news, and trying to bring another element to the news that, you know, we were confronted.  I mean, in any time of high stress, you swear off – I'm not watching any more TV. I'm not even gonna look at the newspaper. And then, of course, you do. I can't talk about Israel today. I can't not talk about it. I can't read the paper. I can't not read the paper. It's kind of that back and forth. But what is driving that? And so I'm trying to get at that next dimension of what's resonating behind each one of these headlines, or resonating for me. I mean, I'm not claiming this is an interpretation of news. It's my reaction, but people do react, and there's that other dimension to headlines. Manya Brachear Pashman:  That seems like it might be therapeutic, no? Owen Lewis:  Oh, totally, totally. You know, I'm very fortunate that having started a career in medicine, in psychiatry, and particularly in child and adolescent psychiatry. I always had one foot in the door academically. I spent, you know, my life as, I still teach, but I'm very fortunate to have, maybe 10+ years ago, been introduced to a basically a woman who created the field of Narrative Medicine, Rita Sharon. And now at Columbia in the medical school, we have a free-standing Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, of which she's chairman.  So I've had the fortune of bringing psychiatry and medicine and writing together in a very integrated way. And yes, writing is therapeutic, especially, I could say in medicine, which has given itself over to electronic medical record keeping, but our whole society is moving towards the electronic. And what happens when you sit and write, and what happens when you then sit and read, you reflect. Your mind engages in a different way that is a bit slower than the fast pace of electronic communications and instant communications and instant thinking. And now with AI, instant analysis of any situation you want to feed data from.  So that's sorely lacking in the human experience. And the act of writing, the act of reading has huge therapeutic values, huge salutary benefits for humans in general, but particularly in times of stress. In a lot of work on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, finding an outlet, an artistic outlet, it doesn't have to be writing, but that's often a way of transcending the trauma.  And medicine is filled with trauma. People trying to come to terms with acute illnesses, chronic illnesses. Doctors and caregivers trying to come to terms with what they can and can't do. And you know, we're coming up against limitations. But how do you make peace with those limitations? And it's not that it's a magical panacea, but it's a process of engagement, not only with the subject, but with yourself in relation to the subject. Manya Brachear Pashman:  I mean, I imagine dialogue is really the healthiest way of conversation and speaking through and interacting with a topic. And so I would imagine poetry, or, as you said, any art form, responding to news reports, it makes that a two way conversation when you're able to process and it's not just the headlines shouting at you, you're actually interacting and processing it by writing and reaction, or painting and reaction, whatever you choose to do. Owen Lewis:  Exactly. Manya Brachear Pashman:  You have said that poetry can serve a purpose during times of war. Is this one of the purposes to to be therapeutic or are you talking more in terms of what statesmen could learn from it?  Owen Lewis:  Well, yes, of course, what statesmen could learn from it, but it's human nature to want to take sides. I mean, that's kind of just what we do. But I think we can always do better than that. So I'm really talking about the people. I mean, there are also many Jews who are so angry at Israel that they can't listen to the story of Jewish grief. They should be reading mine and others poetries from this era. I wish the Palestinian poets were. I wish the Palestinian people. I mean, of course, in their current situation, they don't have time when you're starving, when you're looking for your next glass of fresh water. You don't have time for anything beyond survival.  But once we get beyond that, how long are these positions going to be hardened. I mean, I think when the people of all sides of the dilemma really listen to the others, I mean, they're, I mean, if, unless as Hamas has expressed, you know, wants to push Israel into the sea, if Israel is going to coexist with the Palestinian people, whether they're in a nation or not in a nation, each has to listen to the other.  And it's, you know, it's not one side is right, one side is wrong. It's far too complex a history to reduce it to that kind of simplicity. And I think poetry, everyone's poetry, gets at the complexity of experience, which includes wanting to take sides and questioning your wanting to take sides and moving towards something more humanitarian.  Manya Brachear Pashman:  You said earlier, you recommend Abu Toha, Fady Joudah, two Palestinian poets who have written some beautiful verse about– tragically beautiful verse–about what's happening. But there have been some really deep rifts in the literary world over this war. I mean, as you mentioned before, there was a letter written by authors and entertainers who pledged to boycott Israeli cultural institutions. Some authors have refused to sell rights to their books to publishers in Israel. So why not reciprocate? And I know the answer. I think you've already addressed it pretty well. What's wrong with that approach? Owen Lewis:  In any conflict, there are at least three sides to the conflict. I mean, claims to nationhood, claims to who shoved first, who. I mean, you don't entangle things by aggressively reacting. I mean, if we learned anything from Mahatma Gandhi, it's what happens when we don't retaliate, right? And what happens when we go the extra mile to create bridges and connections.  There are a host of people in Israel who continue to help Palestinians get to medical facilities, driving them back and forth, working for peace. I mean, there's a Palestinian on the Supreme Court of Israel, and well, he should be there. You know, that's the part of Israel that I am deeply proud of. So why not retaliate? I think it entrenches positions and never moves anything forward. Manya Brachear Pashman:  So have you gotten any negative feedback from your writing colleagues? Owen Lewis:  Some cold shoulders, yes. I mean not nothing overtly. I haven't been slammed in a review yet. Maybe that's coming. But when I publish pieces, I tend not to look at them. I had an oped in the LA Times. I've had some other pieces, you know, that precipitates blogs, and I started to read them.  And the first blog that came off of the the LA Times oped was, God, is he an opportunist, just taking advantage of having a daughter in Israel? And trying to make a name for himself or something. And I said, You know what, you can't put yourself out and take a position without getting some kind of flack. So occasionally, those things filter back, it's par for the course. Manya Brachear Pashman:  Right, not really worth reading some of those. You included Midrash in this book. You also spelled God in the traditional sense in the poems. Why did you choose to do that? Owen Lewis:  Well, I felt it honors a tradition of Jewish writing. It mean we have yud, hey, vav, hey, you know, which in English comes down as Yahweh, but it's unpronounceable. The name of God is unpronounceable. And, you know, yud, hey, vav, hey is just a representation. It isn't God's name. And there's a tradition that the name of God, when it's written down, can't be destroyed. And it's a way of honoring that tradition. Millennium of Jewish writers, you know, it's similar to say Elokim, instead of Elohim when the text is written. To sort of substitute. We know what we're talking about, but really to honor tradition, to pay respect and sort of to stay in the mind frame that, if there is a God, he, she, they, are unknowable. And somehow it creates, for me, a little bit of that mystery by leaving a letter out. It's like, G, O, D, seems more knowable than G-d. It's leaving that white space right for something bigger, grander, and mysterious, for the presence of that  right in the word itself. Manya Brachear Pashman:  And what about including Midrash? Owen Lewis: That's a very interesting question. You know Midrash for me, when you steep yourself in traditional Midrash, there's stories that exemplify principles and they fill in gaps. I mean, some of the most important. I mean, we have this notion of Abraham breaking the idols of his father before he left. No. That's Midrash, thats not in the Torah. And yet, nine out of ten Jews will say that's in the Torah, right? So, it kind of expands our understanding of the traditional text. But it also very much allows a writer to creatively engage with the text and expand it. It's like a commentary, but it's a commentary in story, and it's a commentary in terms that evoke human responses, not necessarily intellectual responses. So frankly, I think it's every Jews' responsibility to write Midrash. That reinvigorates the stories, the texts, and the meanings, and then we write midrashes upon midrashes. And you know, we get a whole community buzzing about a single story. Manya Brachear Pashman:  Which is very much what you've done with this collection, you know, writing poetry in response to news stories and engaging it in that way. It's very Jewish response, I would argue.  Do you observe Tisha B'av? Owen Lewis:  You know what I do. You're gonna laugh. My grandmother always warned us, don't go in the water on Tisha B'av, the sea will swallow you up. So I'm a big swimmer. I love swimming. I don't swim on Tisha B'av, because I hear my grandmother's voice, I'm going to be swallowed up. Manya Brachear Pashman:  If you could please wrap up this conversation by sharing a poem of your choice from your latest collection. Owen Lewis:  A poem I love to read again starts with a headline.   2000 Pound Bombs Drop, Reported N.Y. Times, Dec,, 22 2023.   In Khan Younis, the call to prayer  is the call of a dazed Palestinian child crying baba, standing at the brim of a cavernous pit of rubble   biting his knuckles–baba, baba . . .  It's so close to the abba of the dazed  Israeli children of Be'eri, Kfar Azza. There is no comfort. From his uncles   he's heard the calls for revenge– for his home and school, for his bed  of nighttime stories, for his nana's  whisper-song of G-d's many names.   His Allah, his neighbor's Adonai,  cry the same tears for death  and shun more blood. No miracle these waters turning red. Who called forth    the fleets of avenging angels? By viral post: Jewish Plagues on Gaza! A firstborn lost,  then a second, a third. What other plagues  pass over? Hail from the tepid sky?   From on high it falls and keeps falling.  Though we've “seen terrible things,” will you tell us, Adonai, Allah, tell us– do You remember the forgotten promise?   From the pile once home of rubble stone, a father's hand reaching out, baba, abba crushed by the load. We know the silence  of the lost child . . . G-d “has injured us   but will bind up our wounds . . .” Mothers  Look for us, called by the name yamma, calling  the name imma. Our father of mercy, not the god of sacrifice. Our many crying heads explode. Manya Brachear Pashman:   Owen Lewis, thank you so much for talking to us about how this book came about and for sharing some of these verses. Owen Lewis:   Thank you so much. Manya Brachear Pashman: If you missed last week's episode, be sure to listen to my conversation with Israeli comedian Yohay Sponder on the sidelines of AJC Global Forum 2025. Hear how his Jewish identity shapes his work, how his comedy has evolved since the Hamas terror attacks, and what he says to those who try to silence him.

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Kate's an old pal from our days at Word magazine. She was on the staff for six years before heading off to the New Statesman and has just put out a collection of the sizzling and revelatory profiles she wrote for us, them and the Observer about a particular sector of the musical landscape for whom she's always carried a torch. As she wonders in ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters with Rock Royalty', “how is it that in the presence of wrinkly rock stars twice my age I sometimes think I'm meeting … me?” This tremendous exchange is full of hard-won insight about the mind-set of musicians and stops off at the following …  … the fascinating appeal of rock stars' vulnerability, giant egos, oddness and obsessions – “they're often frozen at the emotional age they became famous”. … growing up with Britpop, the decade when “teenagers weren't allowed to like anything”. … things women notice and men often miss: the difference between male and female journalists. … being driven down a mountain by Kevin Ayers after he'd drunk a pint of Pernod. … why she's so drawn to the critically unfashionable acts like Bruce Hornsby, Kiss and Terence Trent D'Arby. … what she learnt from interviewing Joni Mitchell's old boyfriend Cary Raditz. … why the best route to understanding any rock star is via their parents. … her obsession with “the shamefully unfashionable” Queen, aged 11, and the appeal of these self-styled “fun ambassadors” against the grating irony of the ‘90s. … the “charming yet awful” Paul O'Neill of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra handing out $50,000 bundles of cash to the homeless. … why musicians are more interesting when they've peaked.   … “the cartoon characters” of Shaun Ryder and John Lydon. … “the only people at Jeff Beck's interment were his wife and Johnny Depp”. … and being refused an interview by Janelle Monae for not being sufficiently “queer or black”. Order ‘Men Of A Certain Age' here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Certain-Age-Encounters-Royalty/dp/1788705645 Tickets for Kate's launch event on April 3:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-of-a-certain-age-kate-mossman-with-alexis-petridis-tickets-1270535970289Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate's an old pal from our days at Word magazine. She was on the staff for six years before heading off to the New Statesman and has just put out a collection of the sizzling and revelatory profiles she wrote for us, them and the Observer about a particular sector of the musical landscape for whom she's always carried a torch. As she wonders in ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters with Rock Royalty', “how is it that in the presence of wrinkly rock stars twice my age I sometimes think I'm meeting … me?” This tremendous exchange is full of hard-won insight about the mind-set of musicians and stops off at the following …  … the fascinating appeal of rock stars' vulnerability, giant egos, oddness and obsessions – “they're often frozen at the emotional age they became famous”. … growing up with Britpop, the decade when “teenagers weren't allowed to like anything”. … things women notice and men often miss: the difference between male and female journalists. … being driven down a mountain by Kevin Ayers after he'd drunk a pint of Pernod. … why she's so drawn to the critically unfashionable acts like Bruce Hornsby, Kiss and Terence Trent D'Arby. … what she learnt from interviewing Joni Mitchell's old boyfriend Cary Raditz. … why the best route to understanding any rock star is via their parents. … her obsession with “the shamefully unfashionable” Queen, aged 11, and the appeal of these self-styled “fun ambassadors” against the grating irony of the ‘90s. … the “charming yet awful” Paul O'Neill of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra handing out $50,000 bundles of cash to the homeless. … why musicians are more interesting when they've peaked.   … “the cartoon characters” of Shaun Ryder and John Lydon. … “the only people at Jeff Beck's interment were his wife and Johnny Depp”. … and being refused an interview by Janelle Monae for not being sufficiently “queer or black”. Order ‘Men Of A Certain Age' here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Certain-Age-Encounters-Royalty/dp/1788705645 Tickets for Kate's launch event on April 3:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-of-a-certain-age-kate-mossman-with-alexis-petridis-tickets-1270535970289Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kate's an old pal from our days at Word magazine. She was on the staff for six years before heading off to the New Statesman and has just put out a collection of the sizzling and revelatory profiles she wrote for us, them and the Observer about a particular sector of the musical landscape for whom she's always carried a torch. As she wonders in ‘Men Of A Certain Age: My Encounters with Rock Royalty', “how is it that in the presence of wrinkly rock stars twice my age I sometimes think I'm meeting … me?” This tremendous exchange is full of hard-won insight about the mind-set of musicians and stops off at the following …  … the fascinating appeal of rock stars' vulnerability, giant egos, oddness and obsessions – “they're often frozen at the emotional age they became famous”. … growing up with Britpop, the decade when “teenagers weren't allowed to like anything”. … things women notice and men often miss: the difference between male and female journalists. … being driven down a mountain by Kevin Ayers after he'd drunk a pint of Pernod. … why she's so drawn to the critically unfashionable acts like Bruce Hornsby, Kiss and Terence Trent D'Arby. … what she learnt from interviewing Joni Mitchell's old boyfriend Cary Raditz. … why the best route to understanding any rock star is via their parents. … her obsession with “the shamefully unfashionable” Queen, aged 11, and the appeal of these self-styled “fun ambassadors” against the grating irony of the ‘90s. … the “charming yet awful” Paul O'Neill of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra handing out $50,000 bundles of cash to the homeless. … why musicians are more interesting when they've peaked.   … “the cartoon characters” of Shaun Ryder and John Lydon. … “the only people at Jeff Beck's interment were his wife and Johnny Depp”. … and being refused an interview by Janelle Monae for not being sufficiently “queer or black”. Order ‘Men Of A Certain Age' here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Certain-Age-Encounters-Royalty/dp/1788705645 Tickets for Kate's launch event on April 3:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-of-a-certain-age-kate-mossman-with-alexis-petridis-tickets-1270535970289Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back in the win column, Coach Greg Raymond discusses Hobart's win over Le Moyne and the challenges the Statesmen will face at Dartmouth on Saturday. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X: @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

Americans overwhelmingly say the government is too big, bloated, and wasteful, but what happens when real cuts start to hurt? As tariffs hit, government spending is slashed, and bureaucratic fat is trimmed, Americans will feel the consequences. With consumer sentiment and the stock market fluctuating, how much pain are Americans willing to bear for a leaner, more accountable government and a stronger economic future? Will they stand by President Trump as he moves forward with his agenda, or will short-term pain create backlash? In this episode of The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano breaks down the economic and political realities of government cuts, the tough choices ahead, and whether Americans truly have the resolve to end government overreach once and for all. Episode Highlights: • Tariffs, Budget Cuts & Market Reactions How economic pain hits American households and what it means for Trump's economic plan. • Are Americans Too Shortsighted? Voters demand smaller government, but will they backtrack as real consequences emerge? • The Political Stakes Will Americans accept temporary pain for long-term prosperity, or will political pressure force a return to reckless government spending and business as usual in Washington DC?

Coach Greg Raymond talks about the progress he saw in Hobart's play from Robert Morris to UAlbany and looks at the Statesmen's next opponent, Le Moyne. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X: @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

Join us this summer for our Men's Retreat in Greece - June 8-15.  Click here for more info. Apply soon, space is limited!https://costofglory.com/retreatA conversation w/ Kevin Dolan on Kings of Sparta, Anti-Natalist Roman Aristocrats, and whether Christianity destroyed or saved Rome.Join me at the Natal Conference, March 28-29, 2025, in Austin, TX!  https://natalism.orgFind Kevin on X at https://x.com/extradeadjcb

A frequent guest of Total Information AM is traveling to New York this week to talk about his new book on diplomacy at the UN Bookshop. John Shaw is Director of the Paul Simon Public Police Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He joined Megan Lynch to disucss his book -- “The Education of a Statesman: How Global Leaders Can Repair a Fractured World”

Coach Greg Raymond breaks down Hobart's performance against Michigan and looks ahead to Bucknell, which is coached by a trio of former Statesmen. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X: @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

Hobart lacrosse opened the 2025 season with a win over Canisius. Hear Coach Greg Raymond's thoughts on his team's debut and what to expect from the Statesmen's next opponent, 17th-ranked Michigan. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X: @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

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Learn exactly how old the United States was in 1824 including milestone that she was soon nearing. Determine if it's fair to say that America by 1824 had bid farewell to many Revolutionary War Officers including Statesmen. Find out if any Revolutionary Leaders were still alive come 1824. Discover exactly how many states were in the Union by 1824. Get an understanding behind how the Era of Good Feelings evolved including the president whom laid its blueprints to predecessor carrying them out. Discover how many states got admitted into the Union between 1817-1825. Understand importance behind Internal Improvements. Agree if it's fair to say that in order for America to move forward beyond 1824 she had to reflect back on her past. Determine exactly what the past is in reference about. Get an in depth analysis report involving one particular French Individual whom arrived into America come July 1777 and understand overall significance behind his story. Learn how the young Frenchman contributed during wartime including postwar era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the postseason! Ted Baker sits down with Head Coach Kevin DeWall '00 to talk about the end of the regular season, the All-Liberty League awards and the Statesmen's NCAA tournament second round opponent, Susquehanna. The Hobart Football Podcast is recorded weekly during the season.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, and Spotify. To help support Hobart Football, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Football on X: @HobartFootball; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartFootball.

Back in the studio with Ted Baker, Head Coach Kevin DeWall '00 talks about using the new in-game GoRout technology, the Statesmen's shut out of Union, and looks at the Week 9 matchup at RPI. The Hobart Football Podcast is recorded weekly during the season.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, and Spotify. To help support Hobart Football, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Football on X: @HobartFootball; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartFootball.

Hobart shuffled off to Buffalo and got another win. Hear Coach Kevin DeWall '00 discuss the Statesmen's 31-3 win over Buff State in Week 6 and his thoughts on a trip to St. Lawrence in Week 7. The Hobart Football Podcast is recorded weekly during the season.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, and Spotify. To help support Hobart Football, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Football on X: @HobartFootball; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartFootball.

It's ALL Relative is back after being away for a few months and we are making sure that EVERYONE is marking their calendars for October 31st! Why? Not just Halloween, BUT the Older statesmen Album Release of "State of the Union." I was honored to be joined by the Duo of the Older Statesmen Sean Murphy and Scott Masopust and hear about their journey on how the album was created. We hear about their past music endeavors with each other and as solo or parts of other music groups from the past. The guys open up about some of the songs on their upcoming album and how the emotion and relatability could reach every person on this planet. We also hear a sample of their first single, "Lonely Road" & a personal favorite of mine, "Love is a Melody." Check out our editor's personal channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/theofficialyo Intermission Music: “Atom Bomb” by Y.O. https://www.youtube.com/user/theofficialyo ---  Ending Music: "Starrrsss" by Big Kang -- https://soundcloud.com/kangsmack --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsallrelativepod/support

Homecoming Victory Edition! Head Coach Kevin DeWall '00 breaks down his team's 16-7 win over Ithaca, that ended the Bombers' 13-game Liberty League winning streak and looks ahead to the Statesmen's road trip to Buffalo State. The Hobart Football Podcast is recorded weekly during the season.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, and Spotify. To help support Hobart Football, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Football on X: @HobartFootball; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartFootball.

With a 27-17 win over Moravian under his belt, Head Coach Kevin DeWall '00 discusses how the Statesmen tripped up the Greyhounds and previews the team's final non-conference game of the season, a road contest at Keystone. The Hobart Football Podcast is recorded weekly during the season.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, and Spotify. To help support Hobart Football, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Football on X: @HobartFootball; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartFootball.

PREVIEW: POTUS DEBATE: THE ROOSEVELTS: Conversation with colleague Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution re the admirable statesmen of the presidential successes in the early 20th Century in comparison to our present choices. More tonight 1904 FDR at Groton

Week 1 is in the books and Hobart is 1-0. Coach Kevin DeWall '00 talks through what his Statesmen did well to earn the victory over Alfred and discusses the opportunities to get better heading into Week 2's showdown at nationally-ranked Randolph-Macon. The Hobart Football Podcast is recorded weekly during the season.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, and Spotify. To help support Hobart Football, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Football on Twitter: @HobartFootball; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartFootball.

For this episode of the Global Exchange podcast, Colin Robertson talks with Tim Sargent and CGAI Fellows Lawrence Herman and John Weekes about Canada-US trade and the upcoming review of the CUSMA. This podcast is associated with the work of the Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations, an initiative supported by The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. // Participants' bios - Lawrence Herman is a trade law specialist having served in the Foreign Service and then in private practise. He is a Senior Fellow and member of the National Policy Council of the C. D. Howe Institute - A foreign service officer, John Weekes served as Canada's Chief Negotiator for the NAFTA and then as our Ambassador to the World Trade Organization before a distinguished career in the private sector. - Tim Sargent is Senior Fellow and Director of Domestic Policy at the Macdonald Laurier Institue. A career public servant he held Deputy Minister and Associate Deputy Minister positions at Fisheries and Oceans, International Trade, Finance, and Agriculture and AgriFood, as well as senior positions at the Privy Council Office. // Host bio: Colin Robertson is a former diplomat and Senior Advisor to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson // Read & Watch: - "The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics", by Alexander Herman: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/parthenon-marbles-dispute-9781509967179/ - "Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats: Canada's Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy", edited by John R. English and Patrice Dutil: https://www.ubcpress.ca/statesmen-strategists-diplomats - "No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America's Workers", by Robert Lighthizer: https://www.amazon.ca/No-Trade-Free-Changing-Americas/dp/0063282135 - "Innovation in Real Places – Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World", by Dan Breznitz: https://politics.utoronto.ca/publication/innovation-in-real-places-strategies-for-prosperity-in-an-unforgiving-world/ // Recording Date: August 6, 2024.

About The GuestDavid V. Hicks retired in 2015 as Chief Academic Officer for Meritas LLC, a company based in Chicago that owned and operated K-12 college preparatory schools worldwide.  The day after his retirement, Meritas was sold to Nord Anglia Education.   Before joining Meritas, Hicks spent thirty years in independent education, heading St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Jackson, Mississippi; St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas; St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; and the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia.  After graduating from The Stony Brook School (New York) in 1966, Hicks studied at Princeton where he majored in English and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1970. He then read for a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Jesus College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He later studied at the University of Moscow. Hicks served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and is the youngest man ever to teach on the faculty of the Naval War College. In 1976, he ran for Congress in New York's Westchester County in a race he narrowly lost to long-time incumbent Richard Ottinger. In 1981 his book, NORMS & NOBILITY: A TREATISE ON EDUCATION, won the Outstanding Book Award for Education from the American Library Association. In 1996, Hicks created a stir in boarding school communities around the United States when he published his essay, “The Strange Fate of the American Boarding School,” in The American Scholar. His and his brother Scot's translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations was published by Scribner as THE EMPEROR'S HANDBOOK in 2002.   Since then Scot and Davd have produced a series of annotated translations of Plutarch's Lives for CiRCE: The Lawgivers; The Statesmen; and The Tyrant. Forthcoming books by Hicks: The Stones Cry Out: Reflections on the Myths We Live By (CAP) and with Father Anthony Gilbert, Orthodox Christianity and Classical Education (SVP). Hicks has served on numerous boards throughout the world, most recently including the TASIS Foundation (Switzerland), the Campion School (Greece), St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (New York), TASIS Dorado School (Puerto Rico), San Roberto International School  (Mexico), and St. Peter's Monastery Foundation (Montana).  Hicks and his wife Mary Elizabeth have four grown children and live on a ranch (West of the Moon) off the grid near Harrison, Montana.  They are members of St. Anthony the Great Orthodox Church In Bozeman.Show NotesDavid shares about his education as a child into his early career and how it lead him towards writing Norms and Nobility. Adrienne and David dive into what it means to create a spirit of inquiry rooted in dialects. David delves into the thesis of Norms and Nobility and expands on the quote on page 18 of his book. David discusses what early Christian education looked like.  David details about all his newer writing projectsDavid V. Hicks ResourcesREISSUE of Norms and Nobility releases August 6, 2024 (look for the blue book with the introduction by Andrew Kern)Orthodox Christianity and Classical Education: An Anthology edited by David V. Hicks (published by St. Vladimir's Press. Release date is not yet available)The Stones Cry Out by David V. Hicks (CAP publishing- Preorder form is available here)The Emporer's Handbook : A New Translation of the Meditations Trans. by David and Scot Hicks (the new paperback version is Marcus Arelius's Meditations also translated by Hicks)The Plutarch books (all 3: The Lawgiver, The Statesman, The Tyrant) can be found on Circe Institute's website here.Resources MentionedThucydides (He did not mention what book, but this is the version that Dr. Matthew Post used for his classes at UD)Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. TolkienThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JabobsThe Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry (audiobook is free on audible)Plutarch's LivesSingapore MathThe PsalterFilm: Seven Brides for Seven BrothersNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoevskyChristianity and Classical Culture by Charles Norris Cochrane (free pdf here) Past Guests on the Podcast who are Mentioned in this Episode:RightStart MathTeaching Math Like Socrates with Number LabTending The Heart of Virtue: Vigen GuroianDr. Christopher Perrin on What is Classical Education?Bryan Smith: A Sage in the Liberal Arts Tradition______________________________Beautiful Teaching is hosting an online classical education conference (Karen Glass is one of the keynote speakers). https://www.beautifulteaching.com/conference$20 off Discount Code:IDEAS20note: copy/paste exactly without any spaces before or after.It is good through June 20.DETAILED PROGRAM GUIDEConference Recordings: All sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is greatly encouraged, but come and go as needed. The recording will be av...

This episode of Sunrise Statesmen with Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik features an open and honest discussion about Jeff's recent endorsement of Robert F Kennedy Jr, with Matt providing his take on RFK and his support for Donald Trump. They discuss the importance of being able to debate and discuss differences of opinion and not trashing each other for coming to different conclusions. The ideal scenario would be for Kennedy and Trump to join forces, either with RFK as VP or as Attorney General to go after the intelligence agencies and Big Pharma.Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik kick off their brand new show Sunrise Statesmen, which airs every Friday at 8am PT on Freedom First Network's Rumble Channel.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code COUCH for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code COUCH for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code COUCH and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik are back with another episode of Sunrise Statesmen, this time discussing the deployment of Soy Team 6 yesterday.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code COUCH for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code COUCH for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code COUCH and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

The latest episode of the Hobart Lacrosse Podcast delves into a tough one-goal loss to High Point and looks at the Statesmen's road trip to St. Bonaventure. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X: @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

Guests: John J. Miller, John A. Burtka IV, & Andrew Russell Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College and author of Reading Around, about proposals around the country to institute taxpayer-funded “news voucher” systems to support local news reporting. John Burtka, president and chief executive officer […]

Guests: John J. Miller, John A. Burtka IV, & Andrew Russell Host Scot Bertram talks with John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College and author of Reading Around, about proposals around the country to institute taxpayer-funded "news voucher" systems to support local news reporting. John Burtka, president and chief executive officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, describes the lost art of training statesmen and discusses his new edited collection of historical essays on statesmanship, Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill. And Andrew Russell, associate professor of biology at Hillsdale College, continues a conversation on biofilms and his work on the applications of the compound zingerone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik return for another episode of Sunrise Statesmen, discussing the GOP selling out to do the bidding of the intelligence agencies. Even Speaker Mike Johnson claimed that he used to oppose FBI abuses of power, but now defends FISA courts because these abuses are the only way to defend National Security. We dive into the lack of transparency with everything from the intelligence agencies spying on Trump to the JFK assassination to what really happened on 9/11. All this an more during this episode of Sunrise Statesmen. Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetwork Elevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code COUCH for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.com Be ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code COUCH for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn. Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.com Unleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code COUCH and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik return for another free-for-all episode of Sunrise Statesmen. They come into every episode without an agenda, which leaves it open for some off-the-wall conversations. During this episode, they discuss a new theory that the rapture is going to occur on April 8th, which leads into a deep dive into Biblical prophecy. Parler also announced that the social media platform is back… and, yes, they are back… exactly how they were before with a crappy out-dated platform. Someone in the Live Chat asked about Flat Earth, so the guys discussed that at length, as well as whether the moon landing really happened. And then, finally, the guys discuss some of the features of Pickax, the new social media platform Jeff is launching in the coming weeks. There are several reasons why it's different than the rest, and Jeff breaks it all down. After this episode, you may be wondering whether you are prepared if the apocalypse does happen. Additionally, if the rapture occurs on April 8th, it would technically be a very loving thing to do to send some freeze-dried beef from Freedom First Beef to your unsaved friends and family so that they can survive the tribulation. Either way, get prepare by ordering Freedom First Beef, which makes premium beef cubes that are sous vide, freeze-dried, and ready to be eat today or in a decade. Use code COUCH for 15% off at https://freedomfirstbeef.com. Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetwork Elevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code COUCH for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.com Be ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code COUCH for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn. Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny!  https://ourgoldguy.com Unleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code COUCH and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik return for another episode of Sunrise Statesmen, this time taking a deep dive into Elon Musk, X and the apparent disconnect and contradiction between Elon's words and actions. While he claims X is a free speech platform, their policy of "Freedom of Speech but not Freedom of Reach" directly contradicts that claim. Additionally, he calls out the government for spying on Americans and then works with spy agencies to launch low-orbiting satelites designed to spy on Americans.We close out the show discussing what's most important... and that's our faith. As it's Easter weekend, take some time to spend time with your families and remmeber the true reason for the season: That God sent His only Son, Jesus, to live a sinless life so that he could be the perfect sacrifice to pay the penalty for our sins. He rose from the dead, conquering death, and if we simply believe in Him, we can have eternal life. Make sure you go to The DC Patriot for breaking news at https://thedcpatriot.com.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetworkElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code JEFF15 for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code JEFF for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code JEFF and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Hobart Head Coach Greg Raymond wraps up non-conference play, including last week's Kraus-Simmons Trophy Game, and looks ahead to the start of Atlantic 10 play. The Statesmen will get A10 action started at home against UMass on March 30. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X (formerly Twitter): @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

Matt Couch and Jeff Dornik return for another episode of their weekly show Sunrise Statesmen to recap the week's headlines. They kick things off diving into the ongoing censorship on social media platforms and why they are both excited for the launch of Pickax. Then, in the middle of the show, breaking news erupted on social media with CEO Jeremy Boering announcing that The Daily Wire had severed their relationship with Candace Owens, presumably over her controversial views regarding Israel and Hamas. While both Matt and Jeff are very pro-Israel and disagree with Owens, it's also interesting to point out the hypocrisy of The Daily Wire in combatting Cancel Culture while also “cancelling” people with differing views like Candace Owens and Denise McAllister.Make sure you go to The DC Patriot for breaking news at https://thedcpatriot.com.Subscribe to Freedom First Network on Rumble to watch all of our shows LIVE: https://rumble.com/c/freedomfirstnetwork Elevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code COUCH for 15% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code COUCH for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Protect your financial future with precious metals! Schedule your consultation with Our Gold Guy today and take control of your financial destiny! https://ourgoldguy.comUnleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code COUCH and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Coach Greg Raymond breaks down the Albany game and looks ahead to the Statesmen's inaugural meeting with Le Moyne. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X (formerly Twitter): @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

As the Maritime delegates return home from the Quebec conference, they discover that the voting public does not necessarily approve of their work. 

Coach Greg Raymond and Ted Baker discuss Hobart's win over Robert Morris and look ahead to the Statesmen road trip to face Albany. The Hobart Lacrosse Podcast is recorded before each game during the season and monthly during the offseason.   The podcast is available on HWSAthletics.com, Amazon Music, Spotify and YouTube. To help support Hobart Lacrosse, please join the Statesmen Athletic Association. Find Hobart Lacrosse on X (formerly Twitter): @HobartLacrosse; Facebook: facebook.com/HobartStatesmen; and Instagram: @HobartLacrosse.

Johnny Burtka, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, joins me to discuss the traditional education of a statesman in the Western world, and compare that to what we observe today. Book Discussed: Guest's Link: Sponsors: &

When people think of the plays of Shakespeare, they tend to think of his comedies and tragedies that spotlight interpersonal dynamics like love and jealousy, pretense and reality. But my guest would say that many of Shakepeare's plays, especially his sometimes overlooked histories, are also unmatchable in revealing the dynamics of power.Eliot Cohen is a military historian, political scientist, professor of international studies, and former State Department counselor, as well as the author of The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. Today on the show Eliot takes us through what Shakepeare's plays can teach us about navigating the three-part arc of power: acquiring power, exercising power, and losing power. Along the way, we discuss how these lessons in leadership played out in the lives of real-life historical figures as well.Resources Related to the PodcastPlays discussed:Richard IIHenry IV, Part 1Henry IV, Part 2Henry VRichard IIIJulius CaesarCoriolanusKing LearMacbethThe TempestAoM Podcast #853: The Real Rules of PowerAoM Podcast #792: How Power CorruptsAoM Article: A Lesson From TR & Taft on Pursuing a Life You LikeAoM Article: There Is No Indispensable ManRobert Caro's biographical series on LBJAll the King's Men by Robert Penn WarrenSupreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot CohenConnect With Elliot CohenEliot's faculty page

Dr. Richard Restak has published 25 books on the human brain, three of them New York Times best sellers. His essays and articles have appeared in the Washington Post and New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Vogue and The American Scholar. He has been Profiled in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Guardian. He is a past recipient of the Claude Bernard Science Journalism Award, given by the National Society for Medical Research. He served as President of The American Neuropsychiatric Association from 2005 to 2007. He has lectured on brain and behavior to groups as varied as the Smithsonian; the 92nd Street Y; the Library of Congress; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at Goddard Space Flight Center; the Society of Statesmen, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.; the National Security Agency; the Central Intelligence Agency; the Department of State; the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C.; the Pentagon; Renaissance Weekend (multiple times); Aspen Institute; Ruben Museum of Art; Brookings Institute.Sponsor: www.SeniorCareAuthority.com

Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State who helped shape Cold War history, is a man both revered and reviled.  To his supporters, he was a brilliant statesman whose realpolitik approach to foreign affairs helped maintain international world order and contain Soviet aggression. Kissinger's skilled diplomacy produced a diplomatic opening to Beijing, a détente with the Soviet Union, and the eventual peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. As present-day conflict threatens to engulf the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and a new and dangerous alliance is forming between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, a statesman with Kissinger's strategic acumen is badly needed. To his distractors, however, Kissinger was a war criminal whose pursuit of power resulted in the carpet bombing of Cambodia, a prolonged Vietnam war, a military coup in Chile, and many other such atrocities. Few Americans have been responsible for as many deaths in America and abroad as he. Henry Kissinger, his critics argue, did not make the world more secure; rather, his ruthless brand of realism and callous disregard for human life sowed a deep hatred of US foreign policy overseas that has manifested into the violent conflicts unfolding in the present day. Arguing in favour of the resolution is Niall Ferguson. He's a world famous historian, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the author of Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist Arguing against the resolution is Patrick Porter, Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Birmingham SOURCES: AP, ABC News, CNA   The host of the Munk Debates is Rudyard Griffiths   Tweet your comments about this episode to @munkdebate or comment on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/munkdebates/ To sign up for a weekly email reminder for this podcast, send an email to podcast@munkdebates.com.   To support civil and substantive debate on the big questions of the day, consider becoming a Munk Member at https://munkdebates.com/membershipMembers receive access to our 10+ year library of great debates in HD video, a free Munk Debates book, newsletter and ticketing privileges at our live events. This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue - https://munkdebates.com/ Senior Producer: Ricki GurwitzEditor: Kieran Lynch

Josh advises House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on what House Republicans should focus on in the coming election year, discusses the legacies of the late former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and offers his take on the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today InPerspective with Dr. Harry Reeder November 16, 2023