I.F. Stone: The Journalist Who Read the Documents Nobody Would
A high school student near the bottom of his class who dropped out of college, Isidor Feinstein Stone built a legendary, highly influential journalism career not through insider sources but by meticul...
18 Aug 19min
Jacque Fresco: The Futurist Behind the Venus Project
A high school student near the bottom of his class became a self-taught American futurist, industrial designer, and self-proclaimed social engineer who lived to 101. This episode traces the evolution ...
18 Aug 23min
Jaycee Dugard: 18 Years of Captivity and Survival
An 11-year-old girl abducted in broad daylight managed to hide one tiny butterfly ring, a secret token of her identity she kept for the next 18 years. This episode is a profound study of human resilie...
18 Aug 20min
James Frey: The Memoir Scandal That Rocked Oprah's Book Club
James Frey built a wildly successful career on a memoir of addiction and recovery, only to watch that identity get dismantled on live daytime television. This episode looks beyond the headlines at a f...
18 Aug 21min
Jason Blair: The Journalist Who Fabricated the News
A soaring young journalist at one of the world's most prestigious newspapers, Jason Blair saw his career unravel with a single phone call about striking similarities between his work and another paper...
18 Aug 21min
Jeffrey Lundgren: The Cult Leader Behind the Kirtland Murders
How does an ancient literary pattern and the innocent word Ohio become tools to break the human mind? This episode dissects the anatomy of a cult through the life of Jeffrey Lundgren, a man who morphe...
18 Aug 19min
John C. Lilly: From Brain Science to Dolphins and LSD
John C. Lilly was a brilliant scientist whose grade-school teachers nicknamed him Einstein Jr. Born in 1915 into a wealthy St. Paul family, he pivoted from physics to neurophysiology after reading Ald...
18 Aug 23min
