Middle Ages

This week we're joined by Tracy Rosenthal, who's written a really incredible article for The New Republic about the upcoming Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of being homeless in America. Tracy went to Grants Pass, Oregon, to report the story, and found that the town is a microcosm for how towns and cities across America are dealing with this pressing social question. 

Read the article here: https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson

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Episode 344: Protect The 31 Flavors (w/ special guest Tracy Rosenthal)

Rashid Khalidi talks about Israel's savage attack on Gaza and Rafah as well as the protests at Columbia University, where he is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies. Cameraman and journalist Jon Farina talks about covering pro Palestine protests as well as police violence and crackdowns against protestors.


Dr. Khalidi was an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is the author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).

Jon Farina is an independent Photojournalist based in NYC who's covered over 20 pro Palestine protests for Status Coup. He's covered stories all around the country, including January 6th and made a documentary about Ukraine where he lived for two months.

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Rashid Khalidi On Gaza & Columbia, Journo Jon Farina On Police Attacks On Pro Palestine Protestors

This week we're joined by returning guest Alexander Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) to discuss the recent elections in Mexico, as well as Joe Biden and the Democratic Party's border policies.

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Episode 346: Tunnel To Al-Andalus (w/ special guest Alexander Aviña)

We talk to Lance Oppenheim, director of Ren Faire, the new docu-series on HBO. Ren Faire looks at the drama behind the scenes of the enormous Texas Renaissance Festival. When capricious 86-year-old owner and founder “King” George Coulam attempts to retire, his underlings, the obsequious & loyal-to-a-fault Jeff and the ambitious & conniving Louie, are pitted against each other in their attempts to gain control of the park. It’s a darkly comedic real-life Shakespeare story, but it also touches on a lot of ideas about work, employment, ownership, power, performance, alienation, and an (unhealthy?) obsession with the past, all in the context of a very particular modern workplace.

All three episodes of Ren Faire are available now to stream on Max (the place for HBO).

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Bonus: Ren Faire feat. Lance Oppenheim

We’re joined by Dylan Saba, a writer and lawyer from Palestine Legal, to talk about aid, war, Rafah, Biden’s red lines, and Lebanon.

Check out his article AID WARS here: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/aid-wars/

Episode 386: Red Line

We've got grain on the brain! In honor of counting the omer, Xava brought a text about grain, strain, pain and...Torah.  Let's see if the sages can find a healthy work/life balance.  Sign up for Shel Maala at Sadeh in England here: bit.ly/shelmaalasadeh

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217. To Work, or not to Work?

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Episode 348: Easter Island Property Brothers

The Tories are on their way out! But a Labour government will be just as committed to serving the interests of big business. A new left, anti-war political party with socialist policies must be urgently built to challenge the capitalist parties and the racism of Farage. 

This episode of Revolutionary Ideas will discuss just how this alternative can be built going into a Labour government. 

Listen now!

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Episode 349: The Last Goat

The beginning of a series of lectures on the Middle Ages.  We start by throwing out the junk, such as the notions that medievals smelled bad and liked to hunt witches, and then look into the mystical and apocalyptic roots of the idea that history should be divided into three ages.
Become a patron of Historiansplaining in order to hear the next lecture, on the "Dark Age," in which the medieval civilization first arose -- https://www.patreon.com/posts/8814492

Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages

We examine the flourishing of the Middle Ages between 1000 and 1300, which gave us chivalry, Gothic cathedrals, epics of King Arthur, and nearly all of the romantic images that we still associate with the medieval era, even as the noose of social conformity and repression began to tighten around Europe.
Become a patron of Historiansplaining in order to hear the next lecutre on the Late Middle Ages and follow how medieval civilization nearly broke down under the strain of the Black Death, peasant rebellions, and the gunpowder revolution -- https://www.patreon.com/posts/9369380

Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages

We examine the forces that led the Pope to put forward the far-fetched scheme of mobilizing Christian knights to reclaim Jerusalem in 1095, and briefly consider what lesson the launching of the first Crusade holds for our own world almost 1,000 years later.
Become a patron of Historiansplaining in order to hear the lecture on the First Crusade and how it miraculously succeeded in capturing Jerusalem -- https://www.patreon.com/posts/11130531

Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?

We examine the long train of crusading expeditions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, from the triumphs of Richard the Lionheart to the trainwreck of the sack of Constantinople.  We consider the many ways that modern myths have distorted the Crusades for political purposes and erased the Crusaders' central motivation: control of Jerusalem.
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Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies

History lectures by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I focus on the historical myths and distortions, from "the Middle Ages" to "Race," that people use to rationalize the world in which we live.   More info at www.historiansplaining.com

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Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies

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