(Recorded July 23, 2020) This Week: Too Much and Never Enough.

(Recorded July 23, 2020) This Week: Too Much and Never Enough.
(Recorded April 9, 2020) This Week: The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis.
(Recorded August 27, 2016) This Week: Boris and Adrian reflect on McCarthyism and Cold War pop culture.
(Episode Excerpts: 10.3, 22.3, 22.5, and 28.2) This week we’ve bundled a collection of World War II segments into a single show: (1) on the anniversary of Hitler’s suicide, Boris and Adrian talk about the mythology of WWII; (2) we discuss the decision to drop the bomb; (3) plus some after-show chatter (I was out of the room during most of the bomb segment. This is, in-part, what we talked about after that show); and (4) Boris and Adrian ask, “what if Germany won WWII?”
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(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.
Image Credits: Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il
Theme music by ProleteR.