StocktonAfterClass

Thank you for the podcast about Trump indictment. I hope people read it. What he did is so reckless just like everything he does. He’s such an embarrassment.

This is a fascinating podcast by recently retired University of Michigan-Dearborn political science professor Ron Stockton. Stockton draws on his reading, research, and direct experience, to give thoughtful analyses of political conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and vivid character portraits of politicians including Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, and Orville Hubbard, to name just a few. You get a sense of how fortunate his students must have been, to listen to his lectures and benefit from his wit, scholarship, and humanity.

Insightful and informative. I enjoyed listening to the professor’s lectures. Strongly recommended. However, the one weak point (albeit more of a technical problem than a substantive one) is the intro music to each podcast. The music is annoying and distracting, especially when transitioning from one lecture to the next. The music volume is louder than the professor’s voice so I had to remember to adjust the volume down when one lecture finished and before a new one started or else suffer the blasting horns intro music. Seems utterly misplaced and throttles the listener out of the “academia” mindset. Please remove intro music altogether or consider a more soothing, non-intrusive sound. Thank you for sharing your years of study and knowledge!!

This podcast should be listened to along with a pro Israel podcast on the subject. The professor forgets his own advice to look at incidents in light of what has happened in the past. He focuses on Israeli problems and atrocities (trying to bring in personal stories only to admit at the end that it might not be relevant or true to situation) but barely mentions the holocaust background and the hatred for Jewish people that really set the stage and need for a Jewish State. He just assumes that there should be a state of Palestine even though he admits that they were not cohesive, militarily capable, or independent any anyway, like Israel was when they declared statehood. His bias shows. Off to find podcast of the other side