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Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning

15 minutes decoding today's news through the wisdom of classical texts. Just as sailors once determined their position from past speed and direction — we navigate today's headlines using the timeless wisdom of the classics.

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Episodios

286 episodios

  1. #285 The Vanishing: What Third-Country Deportation Does to a Court Order 15:00
  2. #284 Why Isn't There a Vaccine? — Ebola and the 40-Year Gap That Reveals the World's Priorities 15:00
  3. #283 The Pope Heads to Argentina: Can the 'Church of the Poor' Judge a Libertarian State? 15:00
  4. #282 Frozen Accounts, a President Under Siege: The Paraguay Banking Crisis and the Etiquette of Power 15:00
  5. #281 Whose Words Is AI Speaking? Journalism and the Economics of Free-Riding 15:00
  6. #280 The Bomb That Never Rings, the Airport That Stops — Is a Lie an Act of War? 15:00
  7. #279 In the Name of 'Salvation' — 190 Children, and the Runaway Power of Belief 15:00
  8. #278 90 Million Climate Refugees: Whose Duty Is It to Take Them In? 15:00
  9. #277 Ten Years for Joshua Wong — Judging Words in the Name of "Security" 15:00
  10. #276 When the Water and the Lights Go Out: How Long Can a Liberation Story Last? 15:00
  11. #275 The Reports No One Heeded: Whose Safety Does the State Protect? 15:00
  12. #274 A Fake Interview, $6.3 Billion Gone — Examining the Procedure of Believing Someone Is Real 15:00
  13. #273 Can a King's 'Apology' Settle History? — The Slave Trade and the Crown's Reckoning 15:00
  14. #272 Western Sahara's 35-Year UN Mission Ends: When 'Interim' Lasts 35 Years, Isn't That Already a Verdict? 15:00
  15. #271 The Art of Conceding Defeat: Why Orbán and Vučić Abandoned Election Denial 15:00
  16. #270 Who Pays the Debt for Slavery? — Reparative Justice Left Off the Agenda 15:00
  17. #269 Who Owns the Data Center? The Day a Town's Single Vote Stops AI's Giant Footprint 15:00
  18. #268 Angry Streets: Where Festival Meets Violence — Judging a Night of 320,000 15:00
  19. #267 Who Profits from Smuggling? When the State Dissolves, Who Holds Order and Profit? 15:00
  20. #266 Gold Underground, Sin Above: What Johannesburg's 'Zama Zamas' Expose About Abandoned Mines and Abandoned People 15:00
  21. #265 The Silenced Newspaper — Can Power Manage 'Truth'? 15:00
  22. #264 The Fugitive Loser: Can Power Outrun Justice? 15:00
  23. #263 An Alliance That 'Co-Produces' Missiles — Deterrence, or a Chain Reaction of Arms? 15:00
  24. #262 Can You Declare Yourself the "True Leader"? — The Exile's Cry From Abroad and the Conditions of Legitimacy 15:00
  25. #261 Censorship by the Name of "Unlicensed": Egypt's Crackdown on Independent Media 15:00
  26. #260 Apology or Silence? The King's Caribbean Tour and the Debt of Slavery 15:00
  27. #259 Naming the Nation: Nationalism vs. Founding Ideals in Israel's Election 15:00
  28. #258 Who Gets the Keys to the Classroom? Three Voices on Syria's Women-in-Education Ban 15:00
  29. #257 When Floodwater Becomes a Weapon: Somalia's Airstrikes and a People Driven to the Edge 15:00
  30. #256 Twelve Years of Strongman Rule, Undone by Students: The Night Vučić Conceded 15:00
  31. #255 The Angry Streets: Protests Across France — Whose Cry Is This, Anyway? 15:00
  32. #254 Who Holds the Switch on the Battlefield?: The Disconnection Called a 'Terms Violation' 15:00
  33. #253 Who's Robbing Women of an Education? The Shockwave of Defunding an Afghan Women's University 15:00
  34. #252 Will Bombs Follow the Ballot? Kant, Sun Tzu, and Marx Grade the 'Post-Election' Iran Strike 15:00
  35. #251 The 'Bukelization' of Latin America: What Are You Trading for Safety? 15:00
  36. #250 The Private Hand on the Switch — Starlink and the Sovereignty of War 15:00
  37. #249 The Halted Newborn Vaccine Trial — Who Consents on Behalf of 'Humanity'? 15:00
  38. #248 A Seat for Three Powers, an Empty Chair for Ukraine — Can 'Peace' Exist Without the Party at War? 15:00
  39. #247 Can We Hit Pause on AI? What 50 Cities of Protest Are Really Asking 15:00
  40. #246 The Day the 'Gods of Vaccine Research' Got Raided — Who Is Science Actually For? 15:00
  41. #245 "Slaves" in the Drone Factory — The State Sells Labor, Who's Buying? 15:00
  42. #244 Where Does Freedom to Believe End? — 191 Deaths and a Prescription of State, Education, and Doubt 15:00
  43. #243 The Lie Called "Clean Gold": Cracking Open a Trillion-Dollar Laundering Machine 15:00
  44. #242 Who Owns the Satellites? When One Company Controls the Battlefield's Infrastructure 15:00
  45. #241 Kitchen Chemistry: Homemade Synthetic Drugs and a Society Numbing Its Own Pain 15:00
  46. #240 Protest or Plunder: The Line the Crowd Crossed 15:00
  47. #239 Prices and Rage: What Is the French Street Actually Indicting? 15:00
  48. #238 The Silenced Shelf: What States Ban and a Writer's Conscience 15:00
  49. #237 Peace Bought in Blood: Is Caracas's "Calm" Order, or Just Another Crime? 15:00
  50. #236 Who Decides What's "Against Nature"? Senegal's Mass Arrests and the State's Judgment on Morality 15:00