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America's Founding Fathers feared a standing army would inevitably threaten civilian governance. Yet 250 years later, the U.S. military remains a strange outlier among nearly every nation that has ever existed—maintaining its strength and popularity while never attempting a coup. ... Show More

Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists famously described the First Amendment as building a "wall of separation between church and State." This line has been the gold standard for those who point to the secular origins of America and the threat of funding any sort ... Show More

There’s an argument to be made that every technology advance in communication – from cave paintings to fake AI movie trailers – is at its root an attempt to tell stories. Our first night-fires created the earliest audiences for spoken stories. In time, the development of rhyme, s ... Show More

Sophie Galabru est philosophe, c'est aussi la petite fille de Michel Galabru, je me permets ici car elle en parle dans son dernier ouvrage dédié à la famille "Faire Famille" sorti aux éditions Allary. Et à la veille de noël et des grands raouts familiaux nous allons donc parler d ... Show More

Uncontrollable western wildfires and a hidden family history — two puzzles that can only be solved with knowledge buried in the past. Indigenous people in Montana fight fire with fire, drawing on the unique relationships their ancestors had to one of the West's greatest threats t ... Show More

Every family has a history and delving into the history of one ordinary French family over three centuries provides a remarkable picture of deep social and economic changes. Accounts of the lives of the rich and powerful families of history are commonplace. We have all read ... Show More

<p>Cette semaine dans Passages, nous vous proposons d'écouter des épisodes de notre podcast Emotions : un podcast dans lequel nous décortiquons les émotions grâce à des histoires (évidemment !) et des analyses de scientifiques. Cette semaine, la journaliste Milia Legasa se demand ... Show More

This week’s Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s s ... Show More

He's the destroyer of evil, the pervasive one in whom all things lie. He is brilliant, terrifying, wild and beneficent. He is both an ascetic and a householder, both a yogi and a guru. He encompasses the masculine and the feminine, the powerful and the graceful, the Tandava and t ... Show More

<p>Abby and Patrick welcome writer Sophie Lewis and writer and psychotherapist M.E. O’Brien to discuss their recent books on family abolition, <em>Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation </em>and <em>Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care</em>. T ... Show More

<p>Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé pourquoi faire famille était aussi complexe et pourquoi pour autant si peu d’écrits existent à ce sujet ? J’ai eu l’immense chance d’interviewer Sophie Galabru, la philosophe et autrice de “Faire famille”. Cet échange a été pour moi l’opportunité de ... Show More

Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan directs his lecture towards one of the very strong and sturdy pillars of human existence – Family. The Ustadh begins his lecture with a general introduction after which we are made spectators to the lives of Prophet Yusuf AS and his brothers who left no sto ... Show More