This is the first episode of a series exploring Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. This episode is only a prologue, a few stories and ideas to serve as a backdrop for everything to come. The next episode will be along in the next few weeks,

This is part 2 of a series I’ve been working on with Daniele Bolelli. In part 1, he covered the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre carried out by the US Army. I was working on my next major series when Daniele asked me to do a companion episode on My Lai,

This fraught transition was imposed by violence, as primitive egalitarianism was replaced by class oppression, and human sacrifice was employed to define social boundaries and to stave off panic with brutal acts of self-assertion.

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In which I take a break from banging out my human sacrifice episode to drunkenly check in with my patient, long-suffering listeners.

Never Again

Things Fall Apart...

The Roarin' 20s in British Mandatory Palestine

Traditional conceptions of honor and tribal dynamic hinder the Arabs in their dealings with the British and the Zionists

Jews and Arabs come to blows in the aftermath of the First World War.