120 Italian Fascism Part Nine, War With Ethiopia
It wasn’t enough for fascist Italy to adopt the rhetoric and imagery of ancient Rome, it also...
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119 Italian Fascism Part Eight, Illusions of Empire
Italy’s fascist regime sought legitimacy by packaging itself as an extension of past Italian...
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Hello all! My schedule has changed dramatically. The podcast will now update every Monday. Talk...
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118 Italian Fascism Part Seven, Meagan Zurn on Antonio Gramsci
This week’s episode is an interview with Meagan Zurn (or “Zee,” co-producer of The British...
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117 Italian Fascism Part Six, Church and State
Italian fascism came to power (and solidified power) by co-opting existing political...
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I’m sick. The harrowing tale of Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI will have to wait until next week.
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116 Italian Fascism Part Five, “All Within the State”
After Mussolini proclaimed dictatorship in January of 1925 fascist Italy became the first modern...
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115 Italian Fascism Part Four, Voter Suppression and Murder
Following the March on Rome Mussolini and the fascists cemented their grasp on power via an...
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114 Italian Fascism Part Three, The March on Rome
The March on Rome is often cited as the beginning of Italian fascism. However, there was a fair...
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113 Italian Fascism Part Two, What is Fascism, Anyway?
In this episode we try to answer (or at least clarify) one of the most vexing questions of...
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112 Italian Fascism Part One: The Idea of Italy
Fascism is the most malignant of the major political ideologies, and one of the least understood....
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111 Heather Arndt Anderson on Chilies
This week’s show is an interview with Heather Arndt Anderson, author of Chilies: A Global...
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We’re still on break, but we’ll be back with an interview episode on January 5th, and the start...
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2016 has been a year marked by death. In this episode we get into a few other years notable for...
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In this episode we tackled one of the major issues of our time: Why haven’t more countries used...
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108 How Not to Kill Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro, after being in power in Cuba since the 1950s, is finally dead. Castro was known for...
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Squanto and other Native Americans are a fixture of popular depictions of what has retroactively...
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106 Live at the Jack London, the Portland Vice Scandal
In 1950s Portland, police and racketeers worked hand-in-hand to provide the city with gambling,...
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For about 250 years, Europeans thought that giants lived in Patagonia. The inventor of this myth...
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104 Thomas Jefferson, Mastodon Hunter
Thomas Jefferson loved mastodons, in part because he wanted to prove that American animals were...
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