The Always-On Awakening
Eleven PM. I’m lying in bed, thumb scrolling through iPhone settings, when I see it glowing in that clinical sans-serif:
— THE NETWORK —
Six shows. One editorial frame.
Each show extends one of the columns we have been running in Polymath Review for years. Pick a thread to follow.
Polymath Radio shows
A TWIN CITIES SOUND PROJECT · FLAGSHIP
Acoustic Justice
Ten interviews on place, power, and the Mississippi River watershed. The flagship of the network — and the show that justified it.
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Eremocene
Eight episodes on what we lose when we lose sound.
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The Polymath Hour
The questions that don't fit a tweet, asked of people who've spent decades on them.
ListenISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY · فلسفة
Minor Keys
Conversations on kalām, falsafa, taṣawwuf — told plainly, in English and Arabic.
ListenMULTILINGUAL · اللغة الأم · AF-SOOMAALI
Mother Tongues
Diaspora conversations across Somali, Arabic, English. The languages we keep.
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The Surveillance Desk
Slow journalism on surveillance, infrastructure, and the architectures of power.
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