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The Russian Revolution wasn’t just a political and economic revolution. In the brief moment between the idealism of a revolution that overthrew a monarchy to establish a workers’ paradise and the ugly reality of the totalitarian state the USSR became, […]
History remembers Genghis Khan as a violent brute, destroying everything in his path. But the truth is more complicated than that. Ostracised from his community as a child, captured and enslaved, he escaped, became a leader, a warrior, united the […]
Friend of the show Scott Bunn (Steve Sax Syndrome) returns so we can co-pitch an adaptation of Lloyd Alexander’s delightful YA fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain, which was upending genre tropes only a decade after Tolkein had established them. […]
In 1959, nine friends went on a hike in Russia’s Ural Mountains and never returned. Their bodies were found with a bizarre set of injuries, including head trauma, internal bleeding, exposure, and traces of radiation. 60 years later, the Dyatlov […]
During the Vietnam War, a student protest at Washington University in St. Louis erupted into violence, with a campus ROTC building being burned down. A student named Howard Mechanic was accused of the crime, and when he was sentenced to […]
In 2012, a fungal meningitis outbreak killed 100 people and infected 750 more. Two doctors at the Center for Disease Control raced against time to stop a nationwide pandemic eight years before the Covid pandemic. Journalist Natalia Megas, whose work […]
Usually on Why Is This Not a Movie? we talk about movies that don’t exist but should. But this week we’re talking about movies that do exist, should have been nominated for an Oscar, but weren’t. The Snubby Awards honor […]
Guided by VoicesMirrored Aztec[Rockathon] One of indie-rock’s longest-running stalwarts, Guided by Voices have just released their ninth studio album… of the past four years. After releasing roughly an album a year between their formation in 1987 and a breakup in […]
On August 8, Donald Trump held a campaign event at his own Bedminster Golf Course in New Jersey, giving a speech for an audience of country club members. The appearance was criticized for a number of reasons: It’s unconstitutional for […]