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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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270 episodes

  1. #269 Who Owns the Data Center? The Day a Town's Single Vote Stops AI's Giant Footprint 15:00
  2. #268 Angry Streets: Where Festival Meets Violence — Judging a Night of 320,000 15:00
  3. #267 Who Profits from Smuggling? When the State Dissolves, Who Holds Order and Profit? 15:00
  4. #266 Gold Underground, Sin Above: What Johannesburg's 'Zama Zamas' Expose About Abandoned Mines and Abandoned People 15:00
  5. #265 The Silenced Newspaper — Can Power Manage 'Truth'? 15:00
  6. #264 The Fugitive Loser: Can Power Outrun Justice? 15:00
  7. #263 An Alliance That 'Co-Produces' Missiles — Deterrence, or a Chain Reaction of Arms? 15:00
  8. #262 Can You Declare Yourself the "True Leader"? — The Exile's Cry From Abroad and the Conditions of Legitimacy 15:00
  9. #261 Censorship by the Name of "Unlicensed": Egypt's Crackdown on Independent Media 15:00
  10. #260 Apology or Silence? The King's Caribbean Tour and the Debt of Slavery 15:00
  11. #259 Naming the Nation: Nationalism vs. Founding Ideals in Israel's Election 15:00
  12. #258 Who Gets the Keys to the Classroom? Three Voices on Syria's Women-in-Education Ban 15:00
  13. #257 When Floodwater Becomes a Weapon: Somalia's Airstrikes and a People Driven to the Edge 15:00
  14. #256 Twelve Years of Strongman Rule, Undone by Students: The Night Vučić Conceded 15:00
  15. #255 The Angry Streets: Protests Across France — Whose Cry Is This, Anyway? 15:00
  16. #254 Who Holds the Switch on the Battlefield?: The Disconnection Called a 'Terms Violation' 15:00
  17. #253 Who's Robbing Women of an Education? The Shockwave of Defunding an Afghan Women's University 15:00
  18. #252 Will Bombs Follow the Ballot? Kant, Sun Tzu, and Marx Grade the 'Post-Election' Iran Strike 15:00
  19. #251 The 'Bukelization' of Latin America: What Are You Trading for Safety? 15:00
  20. #250 The Private Hand on the Switch — Starlink and the Sovereignty of War 15:00
  21. #249 The Halted Newborn Vaccine Trial — Who Consents on Behalf of 'Humanity'? 15:00
  22. #248 A Seat for Three Powers, an Empty Chair for Ukraine — Can 'Peace' Exist Without the Party at War? 15:00
  23. #247 Can We Hit Pause on AI? What 50 Cities of Protest Are Really Asking 15:00
  24. #246 The Day the 'Gods of Vaccine Research' Got Raided — Who Is Science Actually For? 15:00
  25. #245 "Slaves" in the Drone Factory — The State Sells Labor, Who's Buying? 15:00
  26. #244 Where Does Freedom to Believe End? — 191 Deaths and a Prescription of State, Education, and Doubt 15:00
  27. #243 The Lie Called "Clean Gold": Cracking Open a Trillion-Dollar Laundering Machine 15:00
  28. #242 Who Owns the Satellites? When One Company Controls the Battlefield's Infrastructure 15:00
  29. #241 Kitchen Chemistry: Homemade Synthetic Drugs and a Society Numbing Its Own Pain 15:00
  30. #240 Protest or Plunder: The Line the Crowd Crossed 15:00
  31. #239 Prices and Rage: What Is the French Street Actually Indicting? 15:00
  32. #238 The Silenced Shelf: What States Ban and a Writer's Conscience 15:00
  33. #237 Peace Bought in Blood: Is Caracas's "Calm" Order, or Just Another Crime? 15:00
  34. #236 Who Decides What's "Against Nature"? Senegal's Mass Arrests and the State's Judgment on Morality 15:00
  35. #235 Monarch in Orbit: Starlink and the Rise of Private Sovereignty 15:00
  36. #234 "This Was Written by AI"—How Does an Accused Writer Prove Their Innocence? 15:00
  37. #233 The Day You Train the Robot That Replaces You: GoPro Cameras on Indian Factory Floors 15:00
  38. #232 Who Judges Explosives on the Seabed? The Nord Stream Trial and the Problem of 'Right Cause, Wrong Means' 15:00
  39. #231 Tear Gas and 480,000 Angry Voices — Is the Street Teaching Us Something, or Just Burning? 15:00
  40. #230 AI-Made "War": What Fake Videos Really Destroy 15:00
  41. #229 Refugees as Bargaining Chips: Europe's Strange Handshake with the Taliban 15:00
  42. #228 Does a Price Tag Go on Human Life? The Ethics of 'Danger Pay' in the Strait of Hormuz 15:00
  43. #227 The Surrogacy Boom: Is the Power to Give Birth a Commodity? 15:00
  44. #226 Erased from the Rolls: Crowds in Delhi and the Power to Decide Who Counts as a Citizen 15:00
  45. #225 The Trial That Withholds a Vaccine: Thousands of Newborns, and the Price of Evidence 15:00
  46. #224 The Nobel Peace Prize and International Law — Who Gets to Judge Justice? 15:00
  47. #223 The State That Livestreams Execution: Is Punishment Meant to Be Watched? 15:00
  48. #222 Fake Reporters, Made by AI: Who Gets to Judge the Truth? 15:00
  49. #221 The Woman Who Couldn't Die Twice — Does the State Have the Right to Punish? 15:00
  50. #220 Is There a 'Right to Die' for Mental Illness? Canada Indefinitely Freezes Euthanasia for Mental Illness Alone 15:00