Episode 16: The Great Leap Forward-Corpses For Dinner
It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. The ultimate historical example of this might just be the Great Leap Forward. As the horrors of collectivization ramped up, how were the pe...
16 Touko 201738min
Episode 15: The Great Leap Forward-Digging China's Grave
Whether digging irrigation ditches or working backyard furnaces, the people of China were forced to smolder their lives away in the all-consuming destruction that was the Great Leap Forward. This is ...
25 Huhti 201724min
Episode 14: The Great Leap Forward
Most people look to the Soviet Union when discussing the dangers of communism and totalitarianism. But from 1958-1962 Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China initiated a system of incompetence, vi...
11 Huhti 201725min
Episode 13: Ordinary Men
The Holocaust has been analyzed often from the victim's perspective (including by me, check out Episode 3: Night), but less often from the perspective of the perpetrators. How did a group of middle-ag...
28 Maalis 201733min
Episode 12: The Social War-The Tyranny of Deterioration
The Social War may be won for Rome, but that doesn't mean it's over. Gaius Marius and Lucius Sulla take the stage in a winner take all battle for Rome. As the heads roll and the bodies pile up, nobody...
14 Maalis 201730min
Episode 11: The Social War-When Conversation Fails
In 91 BC, reason and civil discussion have failed, so now it comes to war for Rome and the Italian Allies. A bizarre conclusion in 88 BC makes all sides wonder what it all was for. Hundreds of thousan...
28 Helmi 201728min
Episode 10: The Social War-The Beginning of the End
Most people learn that the Roman Republic ended with Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC. Maybe, but the seeds of its doom were planted in the years from 140 BC-91 BC. Seemingly small issues a...
14 Helmi 201726min
Episode 9: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was a complex man who dealt with absolute power in a way that no Roman Emperor ever had. He left a positive (but not uncontroversial) legacy of wisdom, justice, and leadership that has...
22 Tammi 201726min
