{"podcast":{"title":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","slug":"astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483","podcast_index_feed_id":226483,"rss_url":"https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/2/d/4/12d4a6af46ce5199/SSC-Icon-large.png","author":"Jeremiah Prophet","episode_count":1170,"summary":"The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's just me reading Scott Alexander's blog posts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T22:20:14.870262+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483"},"episode":{"title":"Political Backflow From Europe","slug":"political-backflow-from-europe","published_at":"2026-03-10T10:37:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483/political-backflow-from-europe","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483","url":"https://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/political-backflow-from-europe","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sscpodcast/Political_Backflow_From_Europe.mp3?dest-id=586545","summary":"The European discourse can be - for lack of a better term - America-brained. We hear stories of Black Lives Matter marches in countries without significant black populations, or defendants demanding their First Amendment rights in countries without constitutions. Why shouldn't the opposite phenomenon exist? Europe is more populous than the US, and looms large in the American imagination. Why shouldn't we find ourselves accidentally absorbing European ideas that don't make sense in the American context? https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/political-backflow-from-europe","meta_description":"The European discourse can be - for lack of a better term - America-brained. We hear stories of Black Lives Matter marches in countries without significan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":669,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483/episodes/political-backflow-from-europe/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astral-codex-ten-podcast-226483/political-backflow-from-europe.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}