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Roe V Wade Overturned. A Reposting two years after the event of the Alito decision.
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May 03, 2024 |
Nelson Mandela Freed, 1990 A Reposting
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Apr 29, 2024 |
Comments to the Graduating Class
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Apr 13, 2024 |
Ottoman Perspectives on Zionism (and on Jews). A reposting
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Evangeline. A Poem of Love and Loss by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Hamas Narrative on the events of October 7. What we did; Why we did it; What we want; What we did not do.
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Feb 20, 2024 |
High Court in The Hague Preliminary Ruling on the Genocide Case against Israel.
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Jan 30, 2024 |
Israel on Trial for Genocide. The South African Document
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Jan 21, 2024 |
Hard Right Jewish Religio-Ethnic Nationalism. Rabbi Meir Kahane. Reposting.
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Jan 06, 2024 |
Genocide: A Reposting
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Dec 22, 2023 |
Suppressing Dissent. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. A Reposting
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Dec 10, 2023 |
Three Narratives on Israel. Evangelical Christian, Jewish Nationalist, Arab Nationalist. A Reposting.
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Sabra and Shatilla Massacre and Kahan Commission Report. A Reposting
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Nov 30, 2023 |
Shall we Chat on Zoom? How About December 2 at 2:00 Eastern Standard Time.
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Nov 25, 2023 |
The Palestinians After 1948 (Reposting of an Earlier Podcast)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
The Palestinian Refugees of 1948: Reposting of an Earlier Podcast
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Israel-Gaza War. Podcast 2. Israel Invades Gaza
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Nov 05, 2023 |
Israel-Gaza War. Israel Invades. Podcast Two
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Nov 02, 2023 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Hamas-Israel War of 2023
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 1973 October War. The Fiftieth Anniversary. Egypt, Syria, and Israel. (Also the US and USSR)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
Understanding Impeachment (On the first day of the impeachment "investigation" of Joe Biden) What our founders meant by the concept. A reposting.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Why I Killed Gandhi. The Public Statement of his Assassin
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Sep 24, 2023 |
Falling Man. An Iconic Story About September 11
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Biden Will Be a One-Term President.
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Aug 30, 2023 |
Trump On Trial. The Georgia Indictments. A Briefing.
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Aug 21, 2023 |
The January 6 Indictments. Trump On Trial. A Briefing
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Aug 12, 2023 |
Israel Seriously Polarized, and in Trouble, 2023
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Aug 10, 2023 |
In Praise of the Ku Klux Klan. The Clansman (1903). A Book that Shaped American Thinking, Then and Maybe Even Now
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Jul 28, 2023 |
Gandhi's Concept of Non-Violent Resistance, a. k. a. Satyagraha or Soul Force
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Jul 17, 2023 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Black Swan. An alternate Ending . A Reposting.
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Rape and Repentence. A Wrongful Conviction. A 28 Year Sentence. A Story that Will Chill Your Bones and Challenge your Soul. At least it did mine.
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Jul 01, 2023 |
The Mara-Lago Indictments. Trump On Trial. A Briefing
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Jun 17, 2023 |
Waco. Not the City in Texas. The Waco of the Mind. The Call for a New Civil War
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May 31, 2023 |
Legacy Lecture: My Life, My Career, My Classes, My Research, My Projects, My Students.
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May 17, 2023 |
Israel at 75. The Palestine War of 1948. Liberation or Catastrophe, or both?
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May 12, 2023 |
Les Miserables. Why I swore I would never read this novel. And why it is now one of my top two favorites.
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May 04, 2023 |
Dominion Defeats Fox. The Parties Settled Today. What Happened, and Why? An 8 minute summary.
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Apr 19, 2023 |
A Palestinian Reflects on His Life in Ramallah, and His Life in Ann Arbor. A New Memoir.
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Apr 15, 2023 |
Christopher Robin Poems: A Delightful Selection
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Apr 06, 2023 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Why there will be no negotiated solution. The Perspectives of Ian Lustick. A Reposting.
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Mar 19, 2023 |
Jimmy Carter. A Great American. A Great Christian. He Never Gave Up
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Mar 05, 2023 |
Ukraine War. Reposting from February, 2022 (I had not listened to this for a year. I learned some things. Thanks for doing it, Ron. You're welcome, Ron)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
Eichmann in Jerusalem. Reposting on the 60th anniversary of its publication.
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Feb 21, 2023 |
The Case for Caution: Why we Should NOT Invade Iraq. A talk from 2002. (Raises some good, long term issues).
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Feb 11, 2023 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Lebanon War of 1982: How Our Leaders Saw it. (Not a parody but at times sounds like one).
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Feb 05, 2023 |
Kennedy School Rejects HRW Head over Apartheid Report. Reposting: Is Israel an Apartheid State? Please read text below.
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Jan 21, 2023 |
Explaining Hitler. Ten Famous Scholars Debate the Issues (Sometimes with heated words)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
Three Catholic Stories: A Female Pope (which the Vatican denies), My Run for Pope (which the Vatican denies), and Spotlight (which the Vatican wishes would go away).
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Jan 01, 2023 |
Impeachment for Insurrection: The Second Trial of Donald J. Trump. A reposting
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Dec 21, 2022 |
The Nine Commandments. (But I thought there were Ten?) This is really interesting.
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Dec 19, 2022 |
When Ron Met Jane. Courtship in the Stone Age. A 60th Anniversary Story
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Books on Religion That You Will be Glad you Read
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Dec 05, 2022 |
Invitation to a Zoom Discussion, December 3, 2022 12:00-1:00 (Eastern Time). Details attached.
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Nov 25, 2022 |
A Matter of Honor. An Incident in the Damascus Souk
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Nov 16, 2022 |
The Return of Netanyahu and the Rise of the Israeli Hard Right. A Reposting on Kahanist Thinking
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Nov 02, 2022 |
Four Fun Stories, two about Halloween. Including the legendary story of Gato, King of the Cats. (A reposting, just for fun).
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Oct 30, 2022 |
Why the President's Party Loses Seats in the Off-Year Election, and why the pattern doesn't always hold. Political Analysis plus some comments. (How could I not?)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Palestinian Intifada of 1987-1993. Reposting. A parallel with Iran 2022?
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Oct 09, 2022 |
Is Christianity Polytheistic? Uh ... Interesting question. Sit down. Have some coffee. Let's Talk
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Oct 01, 2022 |
Eight Things About the Holocaust. Reposting of a Podcast
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Sep 18, 2022 |
Kahan Commission Report on the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre: Reposting of an earlier podcast
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Sep 16, 2022 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Lebanon War of 1982. The War That Never Stopped
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Sep 10, 2022 |
Understanding the Americans. A Talk With Some Members of the German Bundestag.
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Aug 30, 2022 |
Why Kill Salman Rushdie Over a Book? A Reposting (but worth your time)
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Aug 13, 2022 |
Mark Twain's autobiography, and The Dog as Beautiful as a Girl
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Jul 31, 2022 |
Is Israel an Apartheid State? What does that term mean, and what difference would it make?
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Jul 16, 2022 |
Origins of Islam: Mohammed and the Koran
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Jul 08, 2022 |
Three Detroit Area Gravestones (of really interesting people).
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Jun 24, 2022 |
The Most Famous Public Opinion Study. How We Analyze Voting Behavior (and why people don't move around much).
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Jun 13, 2022 |
Memorial Day 2022: Reflections during a Difficult Time. .
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May 29, 2022 |
The Origins Of Public Opinion Research
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May 25, 2022 |
Is Roe v Wade Doomed? The Leaked Alito Decision
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May 09, 2022 |
Background to Islam: Not What You Think.
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May 07, 2022 |
Liberation Theology: The Political Background in Latin America, especially the role of US involvement in radicalizing the region.
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Apr 24, 2022 |
Liberation Theology: How Individuals became radicalized. The cases of Archbishop Romero and Che Guevara
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Apr 24, 2022 |
Legendary Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard: Controversial, destructive, creative, racist.
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Apr 15, 2022 |
Populorum Progressio. A papal encyclical renouncing the International Imperialism of Money; declaring that property ownership is not inviolate, and questioning whether free trade is consistent with Christian principles. .
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Is Anti-Zionism a form of Anti-Semitism? And what do those terms mean anyway?
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Mar 18, 2022 |
Liberation Theology: Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutierrez and the Social Factor
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Mar 10, 2022 |
The Ukraine War of 2022: More Nuance and Insight than the News
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Liberation Theology: Some Theological Themes
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Valentine's Day: A Mushy Three Minute Love Story
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Feb 13, 2022 |
Is Whoopi Goldberg Black? Are Jews White? What do we mean by Race? And why did Whoopi get Suspended from The View?
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Feb 11, 2022 |
A Year of Podcasting. First Anniversary Report to Listeners.
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Feb 06, 2022 |
RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.
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Jan 24, 2022 |
John Paul II. A Legendary Pope
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Jan 15, 2022 |
How Democracies Die. Understanding the Insurrection of January 6, 2021
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. the Moral Giant, who created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Dec 27, 2021 |
A Christmas Gift For You. The Story of The Rudolph Song. With Commentary
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Dec 24, 2021 |
Christmas Songs: Who? What? When? Where? Why?
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Vatican II: The Catholic Church Transformed
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Dec 17, 2021 |
Roe v Wade. The Mississippi Challenge Now Before the Supreme Court
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Dec 06, 2021 |
Closing a Church. A unique and significant Dearborn congregation doing things no other congregation was doing.
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Nov 22, 2021 |
From the Other Side of the Desk. Stories of Memorable Students.
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Nov 21, 2021 |
Biography of a Graveyard. What you can learn from 829 gravestones dating back 16 decades.
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Nov 14, 2021 |
Religion And Politics 11. Rerum Novarum. The 1891 Papal Encyclical that Pulled the Church into the Modern Age.
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Nov 07, 2021 |
Why Sexual Misconduct Investigations Go Wrong (Please read the introduction)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
General Colin Powell. Some Reflections and Thoughts
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Oct 18, 2021 |
Four Fun Stories. Two about Halloween
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 22. Suppressing Dissent.
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Oct 12, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 10. How a Pope is Elected
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Oct 06, 2021 |
Why are Darwin and Evolution So Controversial and So Politicized in the US?
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Sep 29, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 21. The Palestinian Refugees of 1948. A Detailed Briefing. Third podcast of three on the Palestine War of 1948.
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Hannah Arendt. A Great Intellectual and a Controversial Woman. (Suggestion: Watch the movie, Read the book).
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Sep 16, 2021 |
September 11. Part II. After 9/11. A Talk to the Campus. A Talk to the Archdiocese. Reactions.
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Sep 09, 2021 |
September 11. Recollections and Reflections from That Day in 2001
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Sep 08, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 9: Abram Leon. A Marxian Analysis of The Jewish Question
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Sep 06, 2021 |
The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy. Introducing Mearsheimer and Walt, Two of America's Premier Strategic Thinkers
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Sep 02, 2021 |
An English Vacation in the Lake District: Meeting the Queen (well, almost), Visiting Wordsworth's Grave and a Stone Circle, and Climbing The Mighty Helvelyn
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Sep 01, 2021 |
Afghanistan: A Background Briefing
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Aug 26, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 8. Marx on Religion. Not What You Think
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Aug 24, 2021 |
A Black President. Thoughts the Day After Obama's Election, 2008.
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Aug 15, 2021 |
The Satanic Verses: Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Fatwa to Kill Rushdie
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Aug 09, 2021 |
Six Months and Counting. A Report to Podcast Listeners
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Aug 06, 2021 |
Gilead. My Favorite Novel. Suggestion: Listen to the podcast, then read the book.
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Aug 02, 2021 |
Black Political Leaders. A Profile of Nine Different Personalities and Nine Different Styles
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Jul 29, 2021 |
When Ron met Jane. A Story of Courtship in the 1960s
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Jul 25, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 7. Osama bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War on the United States.
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Jul 20, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestine Conflict 20: The Holocaust. Eight Key Points
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Jul 14, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 6. The Catholic Church. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. .
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Jul 09, 2021 |
Black Intellectual Leaders
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Jul 06, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 19. Paradigm Lost by Ian Lustick. Why Israel threw away the possibility of a Two-State Solution.
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 5. Background to Osama bin Laden and his Declaration of War on the U. S.
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Jun 26, 2021 |
Pete Seeger, one of the great protest singers, and what happened when he sang "Knee Deep in The Big Muddy" on national television just after the Tet Offensive
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Jun 21, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 4. The Book of Daniel. A Biblical Critique of Religious Uprisings.
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Jun 18, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 3. The Maccabees Uprising
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Jun 12, 2021 |
How to Write. Lessons Learned Along the Way
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 18. Beirut's Sabra and Shatilla Massacre. Israel's Kahan Commission Report
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Jun 06, 2021 |
Lincoln's Greatest Speech. The Second Inaugural
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Jun 06, 2021 |
General William Westmoreland, U. S. Commander in Vietnam, 1964-1966.
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May 28, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 17. The Israeli Hard Right. the Kahanist Model
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May 19, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 15. The First Intifada, 1988-1993.
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May 16, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 16. Al Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005. The logic of violence, the impact of violence.
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May 16, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestine Conflict 13. The Black Swan Scenario. An End of the Conflict?
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May 13, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 12. The Palestine War of 1948. What happened after the War?
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May 13, 2021 |
The Concept of Genocide: Armenians, Jews, Tutsis and others.
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May 08, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 11. The Palestine War of 1948. Israel created, Palestine erased.
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May 06, 2021 |
Pandemic Orientation: A Talk to my Students about finding Meaning in an Age of Pandemic
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May 04, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 11. Public Opinion on Jews and Arabs and Muslims
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Apr 28, 2021 |
The Replacement Wars. The Ideology of Apocalyptic White Nationalism, Part Two
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Apr 21, 2021 |
The Replacement Wars. The Ideology of Apocalyptic White Nationalism, Part One
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 10. The 1967 War
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Apr 17, 2021 |
King's Mountain. A key battle in the American revolution. How guerrillas beat the world's most powerful army.
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Apr 16, 2021 |
Richard III, King of England. His life, death, and resurrection
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Apr 16, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 8. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, 1896
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Apr 07, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 9. The PLO Charter of 1964
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Apr 07, 2021 |
Bernie Klein. A Legendary Professor
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Mar 29, 2021 |
Thoughts of a Former Terrorist (me)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 7. Ottoman Views of Zionism and Jews (Ottoman and European)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
Orville Hubbard. The Meanest Man in Race Relations
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Mar 20, 2021 |
Religion And Politics 2. Numerology: Numbers in Religious Texts
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Mar 16, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 6. The Palestinian Condition After 1948
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Mar 14, 2021 |
Obama's Presidential Memoir: A Promised Land
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Mar 11, 2021 |
Grandfather Stories (that I told my grandchildren)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
Religion and Politics 1. Feuerbach and How we Think About God
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Mar 07, 2021 |
Vernon Jordan: A Civil Rights Giant, and Power Broker
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 5. Ariel Sharon. Hero or Murderer or Security Threat?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
Nelson Mandela: The Greatest Black Man of the 20th Century
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Feb 25, 2021 |
Deep Blue: How to find my publications for free
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Feb 21, 2021 |
Israeli Palestinian Conflict 14. Christian Zionism: Prophecy, politics, public opinion, Israel
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Feb 21, 2021 |
Rules of Good Studenting
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Israel Palestine 4. Arab Revolt of 1936, Part B
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Israel Palestine 4. Arab Revolt of 1936 Part A
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Impeachment for Insurrection. The Trial of Donald J. Trump
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Feb 14, 2021 |
Israel Palestine 3. Background to Zionism
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Israel Palestine 2. Three Narratives About Israel
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Israel Palestine 1. A Podcast Series
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Feb 09, 2021 |
Understanding Impeachment
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Feb 05, 2021 |
Introduction to My Podcasts
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Feb 04, 2021 |