"Listen In, Michigan" is an audio storytelling feature brought to you by the online alumni magazine, Michigan Today. From historical features and alumni dispatches to campus news and provocative opinions, "Listen In, Michigan" will entertain and inform, helping to keep you connected to the University of Michigan — today.
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Can we handle the truth? History's most heinous dictators have long relied on disinformation to destroy free societies and claim absolute power over nations. Today's agents of chaos tend to be regular citizens, using social and traditional media as well as artificial intelligence to pollute the information ecosystem with lies and conspiracy theories. And in a sinister twist, modern-day extremists…
In June 2023, the world learned that the notorious "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski had died At 81, the domestic terrorist was undergoing cancer treatment while serving multiple life sentences in a high-security North Carolina prison. For Julie Herrada, news of Kaczynski's death was unexpected but not surprising. What was surprising was the "official pronouncement" he died by suicide. Herrada, the…
Ward, Wife, Widow by A. Arbour Music featured in this episode includes " The Yellow and Blue " performed by the Michigan Men's Glee Club. "Sweet Leilani" by Bing Crosby, a 1937 hit for Decca Records (archive.org ) One O'Clock Jump by the Count Basie Orchestra, also released in 1937 (archive.org ) Music of the 20s -- "The Roaring 20s Era: Music Songs from the Top 40 of 1920"