62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. “Talleyrand was in a black mood. All that he had achieved over the past eighteen months had been destroyed: the bloodless and amiable re...

21 Jan 43min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There is a commonplace, dismissive, reductive argument you will hear all the time. That napoleon stood no chance. Even if he had triump...

14 Jan 47min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode we looked at France, Scandinavia and Italy. Italy was particularly fascinating, but we were bare able to scratch the surfac...

7 Jan 47min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode we described how in Paris there was a party like atmosphere, the dreamy, giddy glow of it, how it sucked in the later arriva...

31 Des 202537min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The core of this entire messy situation was the evening of March 31st when Talleyrand and Tsar Alexander meet. This moment that everyon...

24 Des 202537min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. But you already covered the French Revolution? Why bring up events from 25 years prior to the narrative? Well, Actually, I’ve covered th...

17 Des 202529min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Elizabeth’s greatest domestic threat was the Puritans. Under Knox they quickly came to dominate Scotland. A Reindeer75 episode. Eliz...

13 Des 202528min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Grand Strategy in Elizabeth’s war with Spain. The Hawkins strategy turns out to be a winner. Spain has two more Armadas to throw at Eng...

12 Des 202523min