Episodes

  • Youtube is dead: the lost avant garde of intellectual dissent on the internet
    Oct 11 2025

    Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community, although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together like-minded people (as per "the spirit season one") with an ambition to accomplish something more than they could ever attempt alone.


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

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    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    47 mins
  • BLM FAILED. Martyrs are not messiahs, victims are not heroes: the ancient philosophy that ruined a revolution in our time.
    Jul 6 2025

    Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America.


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts


    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • QNA2: Polyamory in the Library, Nihilism in the Bedroom.
    May 30 2025

    Intellectual honesty and sexual infidelity in 2025.


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts



    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • QNA1: The Unmasking of Ancient Athens and Rome; the Paradox of Required Reading.
    May 26 2025

    The first of many QNA episodes on Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome, China, India, Europe and America.


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts


    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    34 mins
  • Learning Ancient LATIN: Now, Baby, or Never (2025 to 2030)
    May 5 2025

    Watch for the sequel, "Latin: Racism Without a Race" and, of course, "Veganism: Racism Without a Race."


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts



    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    59 mins
  • First Alcibiades, Socrates as Conspirator and Cult Leader, Plato as Comedian
    Jan 22 2025

    Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. This is episode 5 of Doomed Republic, (AR+IO-008).


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts



    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Socrates Must Die, Confucius Must Rule: Failed Revolutionaries and Doomed Utopias of the Ancient World.
    Jan 13 2025

    Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America.


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts



    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.

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    1 hr
  • Why Was Socrates Tried? Aristophanes, Alcibiades, Failed Revolutions and Philosophies of Education.
    Jan 13 2025

    Doomed Republic: a podcast about ancient ideals, modern utopias, dystopias and attempts at democracy, including Greece, Rome China, India, Europe and America. This is episode 3 of Doomed Republic, (AR+IO-007).


    Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).

    https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/

    https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts


    AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eisel Mazard across many different podcasts, and united by one Patreon. Eisel is better known as Zel from Ashdod, and was formerly known as the voice (and author) behind the (banned) youtube channel à-bas-le-ciel.


    E.A. Havelock's article, "Why Was Socrates Tried?", was read aloud from a copy of the 1952 tome, _Studies in Honour of Gilbert Norwood,_ with the imprimatur of The Phoenix and also the University of Toronto Press.

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    1 hr and 40 mins