Episode: 2022

Series: The Chinese Century

Explore the complexities of China’s invisible stranglehold on the global economy and journey with the Jacobins down a tantalizing path of intrigue and malice aforethought.

Episode: 2026

Similar to the delayed effects of the detonation of an atomic bomb, the full devastation of the bomb dropped on the global economy by the Coronavirus response has not yet manifested.

Explore with us the imminent devastation and transfer of wealth facing the world, and of course, the relationship between naked wookiees and the global economy.

Episode: 2021

Series: The Chinese Century

China has grown from a simple society of agrarian feudalism to a global economic and military superpower in just seventy years, a feat rivalled only by America’s rise to power in the twentieth century.

In this two-part series that explores China’s role in the modern world, revisit the rise and fall of Dynastic China and the rise of its successor, the People’s Republic of China, a country of free peoples ruled by an authoritarian regime that ‘plays the long game’.

Episode: 2011

Joe Biden has overtaken Bernie Sanders in pledged delegates after Super Tuesday. Is this a surprising upset or predictable politics? What is Joe’s appeal such that he can run a historically anemic campaign and then effortlessly overwhelm Bernie? What is Bernie’s open secret that prevents him from being accepted by establishment Democrats?

Episode: 1938.1

By 1971, the United States had abandoned the Gold Standard. Calamities attributed to this action range from the vortexian national debt to soybeans being called “edamame”. Can a conclusive argument be made for or against the Gold Standard to lay the issue in its final, albeit gilded, resting place?

Episode: 1937.1

Series: True Conspiracies

Following the U.S.S. Maine and the R.M.S. Lusitania in episode 1937, the next ship on the Conspiracy List (the U.S.S. Eldridge didn't make the cut) we review the events of August 2 and August 4, 1964 involving the U.S.S. Maddox and the North Vietnamese Army.

Episode: 1937

Series: True Conspiracies

Postulating Conspiracy Theories is a popular American pastime and Conspiracy Theorists are a favorite target of the mass media and self-styled intelligentsia because – let’s face it – they are easy targets!

Even the term Conspiracy Theory was coined by the CIA specifically to marginalize people who were skeptical of the government’s version of events.

But what if the Conspiracy Theories are true? How do the people and the government react when the skeptics reveal the wrongdoing and the subsequent cover-up?