The Kremlin’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2022/05/17/the-putin-show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">propaganda machine</a> ensures that Russians have a much different view of the war in Ukraine than the rest of the world. Our correspondent spent a day immersed in Russian media, to learn what people there see—and what they don’t. The spectre of <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/05/14/zimbabwes-president-orders-banks-to-stop-lending" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hyperinflation</a> is once again stalking Zimbabwe. And our obituaries editor <a href="https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/05/19/saotome-katsumoto-insisted-that-japan-should-not-forget" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">remembers</a> a man who refused to let Japan forget its painful past. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Straight out of Orwell: Russia’s propaganda machine

Do you ever feel like the time we live in feels flat, complacent, timid, conformist, populated by people who are focused on playing it safe and are inwardly empty?

A century and a half ago, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard felt the same way about the period in which he lived, and posited that there are two kinds of ages: the revolutionary, decisive, and passionate, and the sensible, rational, and reflective.

Here to unpack Kierkegaard’s ideas on these two kinds of ages is Jacob Howland, retired professor of philosophy and author of Kierkegaard and Socrates. Today on the show, Jacob and I first discuss some background on Kierkegaard and his existential philosophy. We then get into the differences between an age of passion and an age of reflection. We discuss how in a passionate age, an individual stands as an individual, possesses an energy which focuses on truth and ideals, and has the courage to take bold leaps of faith, while in a reflective age, the individual is subsumed by the crowd, is afraid of public opinion, and gets so lost in analysis and abstraction that he never makes a decisive move. All along the way, we delve into how Kierkegaard’s description of his age parallels our own, and Kierkegaard’s evergreen call to be an individual, embrace risk, and own your opinions and actions.

Kierkegaard on the Present (Passionless) Age

James Wiseman - postgame (7/10/22)

Precious metals industry veteran David Garofalo joins us to answer your questions regarding gold and the gold mining shares.

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Souvenirs

An Utopia, far far Away (Interlude)

In the quiet moments of our lives, we can all sense that our hearts long for something, though we often don’t know what that something is. We seek an answer in our phones, and while they can provide some sense of extension and fulfillment — a feeling of magic — the use of technology also comes with significant costs in individual development and interpersonal connection that we typically don’t fully understand and consider.

My guest today will unpack what it is we really yearn for, how technology, when misused, can direct us away from the path to fulfilling those yearnings, and how we can find true human flourishing in a world in which so much works against it. His name is Andy Crouch and he’s the author of The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World. Today on the show we talk about the tradeoffs you make when you seek magic without mastery, and how we can understand our desires better once we understand ourselves as heart, soul, mind, and strength complexes who want to be loved and known. We discuss the difference between interactions that are personal versus personalized, as well as the difference between devices and instruments, and how to use your phone as the latter instead of the former. We end our conversation with why Andy thinks we need to redesign the architecture of our relational lives and create something he calls “households.”

#796: The Life We’re Looking For

In today's episode, Andy answers your questions on the best way to branch out in advertising your products/ services away from social media, what it's been like for him going off his depression medication, and how the top entrepreneurs adapt the nothing to lose mentality.

371. Q&AF: Advertising In Other Avenues Outside Of Social Media, Getting Off Depression Medication & Having A Nothing To Lose Mentality

Gostou de uma série nova da Netflix – tipo Sandman – e quer que ela seja renovada? Então assista à temporada inteira. E rápido. Se pouca gente conclui a temporada nas quatro primeiras semanas após a estreia, as chances de renovação diminuem bastante. Em resumo: a Netflix quer que você maratone seus conteúdos originais.

Mas e quando a série não foi feita para ser consumida tão rapidamente? E quando é uma produção que demora para encontrar seu público? No episódio de hoje, conversamos sobre a insistência da Netflix no modelo de binge-watching, que pode acabar tendo consequências negativas para a plataforma. Então dá o play e vem com a gente!

## Participantes
Thiago Mobilon
Paulo Higa
Ana Marques
Josué de Oliveira

## Créditos
Produtor: Josué de Oliveira
Edição e Sonorização: Ariel Liborio
Arte da capa: Vitor Pádua

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258 – Não basta assistir, tem que maratonar (e rápido)

Steve Kerr - postgame (10/11/22)

From the award-winning author of Curtain Call, Freya and Our Friends in Berlin comes a sweeping story of art and love through the lens of a single painting

A celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath. The portrait, known as "Molly & the Captain", becomes instantly famous, its fate destined to echo down the centuries, touching many lives.

In the summer of 1889 a young man sits painting a line of elms in Kensington Gardens. One day he glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters and decides to include them in his picture. From that moment he is haunted by dreams that seem to foreshadow his doom.

A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait of "Molly & the Captain". Meanwhile friendship with a young musician stirs unexpected passions and threatens to tear the family apart.   

Molly & the Captain is a story about time and art and love. Through the prism of a single painting it examines the mysteries of creativity, and the ambiguous nature of success. What weighs more, loyalty to one's talent or loyalty to one's blood? Does self-sacrifice ennoble the soul or degrade it? And what does it mean to speak of the past when its hold on the present is inescapable?

Through Anthony Quinn's signature gifts - period subtlety, intricate characterisation and storytelling verve this triptych novel melds three families and three centuries into a single vision of human frailty and longing.

Molly & the Captain by Anthony Quinn, read by Helen Stern (Audiobook extract)

On this week's show we discuss the truth behind the Danny Welbeck signing and when first contact was made between the club and the player. We also worry a bit about Mesut Ozil's injury and answer questions about increasing player stats by magic, the line-up for the Man City game, the more difficult path of youngsters to the Arsenal first team, and we have to make a difficult choice between two excellent things.

Arsecast Extra Episode 32 - 08.09.2014

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