In this sixth episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:·         *How We Got to Now: Six Innovation That Made the Modern World* by Steven Johnson·         *Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty* by Dan Jones·         *Critical Race Theory: An Introdu

In the fifth episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory* by Jesse Walker*Ironic Life* by Richard Bernstein*How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the S

Episode 4In the fourth episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It,* by Ian Leslie – the ground of so much*Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism,* by Anne Appleba

In the third episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse,* by Jay Rubenstein – Christians out enemy-ing the enemy*How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,* by Jason Stanley – t

In the second episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:*How Democracies Die* by Levitsky and Ziblatt -- here are the key signals for authoritarianism*Ballpark: Baseball in the American City* by Paul Goldberger --  finding space for Yankee Stadium

In this first episode, I read excerpts from the following texts: *A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare* by James Shapiro -- secretly setting-up The Globe*The Wars of Reconstruction* by Douglas Egerton -- violent losers*The Electric Life of Michael Fa