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Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History
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The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
128 episodes
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The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
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×The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.

1 The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part II: The Legal and Media Circus 1:34:51
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Adnan Syed would never have been released had ‘Serial’ not been made. Advocacy journalism must be treated with caution.

1 'The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed Part I: A Straightforward Murder Case' by Andrew Hammel 1:17:02
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A serious reexamination of this case must begin by setting out the evidence that led the jury to convict.
Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.

1 Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright’, A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell 25:39
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Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.
Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

1 How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy 26:14
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Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.

1 The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die by Kevin Mims 41:29
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Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

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The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

1 What Explains Women's Fascination With BDSM Fiction? 5:41
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Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.
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