We’re talking about the new magic of money, or Musk-ism, as our guests call it. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff are historians of different sortsâhistorians of the future. Oddly enough, their hair-raising new book is ...
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The Pope and the President
2026-04-23 | 40 min.
We’re tuning in on the Pope and the President in what can sound like a historic showdown. Are we in the first rounds of an epic struggle between church and empire? Are we perhaps looking ...
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Kings and Pawns
2026-04-16 | 47 min.
It’s Jackie Robinson Day, 2026, when every player in Major League Baseball wears the immortal Dodger’s number 42. Listeners, if you think you know the Jackie Robinson story, think again with us around the most ...
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Thoreau Meets ICE
2026-04-03 | 40 min.
In 1854, when the escaped slave Anthony Burns was captured in Boston and returned in chains to slave-owners in Virginia, despite riotous resistance on the dock in Boston, Henry David Thoreau himself was shattered. Lewis ...
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Fear and Fury
2026-03-26 | 38 min.
Who remembers Bernie Goetz? Who remembers his victims? Or was Bernie Goetz the victimâthe subway shooter who, back in 1984, fired at four black teenagers in a crowded subway car in Manhattan because he felt ...
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