A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.

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Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.  He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End. Find Bart Ehrman online: www.ehrmanblog.org www.bartehrman.com

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Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon.  He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.

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Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher and theorist specializing in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.

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Guest: Robert T. Mann is a former professor of mass communication at Louisiana State University and former Congressional aide to Senator Russell Long, Huey Long’s son.  He is the author of several books including, Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU.

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Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God.

A Timeless Triptych includes Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey; Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny by Edward J. Watts; and Letters & Politics Ancient History Audio Collection with more than 40 interviews.

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Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of Kuan Yin, then speaks with Maya Van Der Meer, author of Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion.

Guest: Maya Van Der Meer is an educator, environmentalist, and long-time Buddhist practitioner. She is the founder of the online education platform Bodhi Kids and the author of the children’s book Kuan Yin: The Princess Who Became the Goddess of Compassion, illustrated by Wen Hsu.

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Neil Marcus described himself as “a poet, humorist, writer, actor, and adventurer-a fantastic spastic creatively endowed with disability.” He is best known for his groundbreaking autobiographical play, Storm Reading, which he performed nationwide from the Kennedy Center in Washington DC to the Doolittle Theater in Los Angeles. He was commissioned to write a poem on disability by the Smithsonian Institute. He is the author of his autobiography with the contribution of S.H. Chambers.

S.H. Chambers is the contributor of I, Spastic.  They is a cis-gender Euroamerican writer, cartoonist, and composer.  Currently they is the editorial cartoonist for the Coast News.

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Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God.

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