(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 April 14, 2017) This week, Boris and Adrian look back at the years 1968 and 1973.
(Recorded December 10, 2016) This week, Boris and Adrian look back at the years 1954 and 1963.
(Recorded December 03, 2016) This Week: Adrian’s away, but we have a book club discussion with the author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
(Recorded September 17, 2016) This week in our book club discussion, we discuss Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, but don’t worry you can listen even if you didn’t read it.