A real old mix of genuine intellectualism and phony pedantry
The best episodes are the interviews with guests who really know their subjects. There are plenty of these. Skip the ones on science: the host is painfully out of his depth. The strangest and least satisfactory podcasts, given that this comes from the French and Italian department of Stanford University, are the ones about modern Europe. There is a marked tendency in many of the podcasts to use pedantically pronounced polysyllabic jargon as a substitute for erudition.
Yngveld via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/28/09
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