Why does the invasion of Ukraine matter? How does the history of religion and anarchism intersect with this question? How does this relate to the persecution of trans people in the US? How ought we confront seemingly endless threats to liberty in our world? We discuss these and other currently-relevant questions that require a bit of historical backstory. 
 
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Stuff Mentioned and Links
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(film)">The Tetris movie</a>
<a href="https://www.fifthestate.org">The Fifth Estate</a>
<a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/russian-idea-nikolai-berdyaev">Nikolai Berdyaev</a>
<a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/688982?journalCode=jmh">Russian Messianism</a>
<a href="https://www.micahbournes.com">Micah Bournes</a>
<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiZrIiVga3-AhXfLTQIHaRuDgoQFnoECFAQAQ&url=https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/show/andor&usg=AOvVaw2dLhv58pdepgaqcg4FY3Qe">Andor</a>

Why Israel Matters

Hosts are Stacie Mallinson (educator, death doula and yogini) and Jeff Mallinson (D.Phil., Oxford, historian of philosophy and religion). This is usually a conversation with the news in one hand and the Tao Te Ching in the other, but the history of ideas and the wisdom of various traditions are also regular topics.