What country best captures 20th and 21st century history?
For our 200th episode special, we posed the question: "If you had to study the history of only one country from 1900-2020, and thereby understand the history of the whole world, which would you pick?"
You voted on the ten submissions and now we invited the top 3 back on the pod to discuss in more depth: Dominik Leusder on Germany; David Broder on Italy; and David Adler on India.
Then Phil and Alex choose a winner (it's a "managed democracy").
Buy our book! Links to retailers
/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger
/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones
/185/ Discipline-Flourishing Democracy ft. Lee Jones
Excerpt: /184/ Reading Club: The European Coup
Excerpt: /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
Excerpt: /182/ Three Articles: Sporno-Vaxxo-Techno-Populism
/181/ Juche in North Britain? ft. Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
/180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
Excerpt: /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
/173/ Reading Club: Left Case for Brexit (UNLOCKED)
Excerpt: /178/ Reading Club: Societies of Control
Excerpt: /177/ AufheBonus Bonus ft. Catherine Liu
/176/ The Worst Class ft. Catherine Liu
Excerpt: /175/ Psychoanalysis Against Adaptation ft. Benjamin Fong
/174/ Social Ungluing ft. Benjamin Fong
Excerpt: /172/ Three Articles: Elite Production
Excerpt: /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner
Excerpt: /170/ Reading Club: Streeck's Critical Encounters
/169/ Authoritarian Liberalism and Its Discontents ft. Amber A'Lee Frost & Daniel Bessner
/168/ Corona, Climate, Communism ft. Andreas Malm
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free