Founding Fathers | Saints and Sinners | 4
Was Alexander Hamilton the real architect of American capitalism — or just the most self-destructive genius in the room? What does it mean that the man who shaped the nation's finances spent his caree...
28 Mai 42min
Founding Fathers | The Original Brexit | 3
Who was the boring lawyer who quietly built the machine that made America work? Was John Adams so relentlessly right that even his allies couldn't stand him? And, how did the man who wrote the most be...
26 Mai 40min
The Founding Fathers | The O.G.'s | 2
What turned America's most famous British loyalist into its most dangerous revolutionary? What does a public humiliation in a Whitehall chamber have to do with the Declaration of Independence? And, if...
21 Mai 34min
Founding Fathers | The invention of the United States | 1
How did a collection of desperate survivors, religious outcasts, and petty criminals become the architects of the world's most powerful nation? What does it mean to build a society on the language of ...
19 Mai 34min
Rasputin | How Rumour Broke an Empire | Feat. Sir Antony Beevor
How does a Siberian peasant mystic end up controlling the most powerful empire in Europe? Could the rumours that destroyed a dynasty have been entirely false — and did they matter anyway? And, without...
14 Mai 39min
Diets | One Stomach Flu Away From My Goal Weight | 2
What did it take for human beings to start controlling what they ate — and why did "health" so quickly become a coverstory for something else? How did a Venetian nobleman's wine-heavy calorie restrict...
12 Mai 42min
Diets | Three Eggs and a Bottle of Wine | 1
What did Vogue actually recommend women eat in 1977 — and why did it make one food writer cry in thebathroom? How did the Greeks turn a six-pack into a moral argument? And, has the human obsession wit...
7 Mai 35min
Mystics | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man In The World | 3
What happens when you raise a child telling him he's the Beast — and he decides to prove you right? Could a manwho genuinely repelled everyone around him have quietly shaped the culture we live in tod...
5 Mai 50min
