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  • Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room (Myth20c – Ep278)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Oct 13th 2024 2:46am EDT

    Capitalism, like any large scale socioeconomic system, has had its share of successes and failures. But the story of Enron, which went from the ranks of the Fortune 500 and darling of Wall Street to bankruptcy in a matter of months in late 2001, served as a lowmark for American business culture in terms of […]

  • Prisoners of Geography (Myth20c – Ep277)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Sep 29th 2024 1:30am EDT

    Geography is the study of how people and place interact. In our modern, interconnected world, with globe-spanning supply chains and near-light speed internet, it becomes easy to forget just how critical the land we inhabit has shaped our civilization’s culture, technology, economy, and over time the very people that call these places home. Tonight, we […]

  • Editing Humanity – Part II – American Genomics and the Truth about CRISPR

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Sep 13th 2024 1:38am EDT

    Recently we spoke with Corey from the Stone Choir podcast to talk about the moral, legal and societal ramifications of the CRISPR gene editing technology. Tonight we are honored to have a genetic researcher offer his technical expertise and experience with the inner workings of the biotechnology field, including areas ranging from the increasing computational […]

  • Editing Humanity – Part II – American Genomics and the Truth about CRISPR (Myth20c – Ep276)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Sep 13th 2024 12:23am EDT

    Recently we spoke with Corey from the Stone Choir podcast to talk about the moral, legal and societal ramifications of the CRISPR gene editing technology. Tonight we are honored to have a genetic researcher offer his technical expertise and experience with the inner workings of the biotechnology field, including areas ranging from the increasing computational […]

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  • American Spirit – Charles Lindbergh and the America First Movement (Myth20c – Ep275)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Aug 18th 2024 3:32am EDT

    On the morning of May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York in a plane he helped design on the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 33 hours later, after braving 3,600 miles over ice cold water and bone chilling fog in the North Atlantic, Lindbergh touched down in […]

  • American Spirit – Charles Lindbergh and the America First Movement (Myth20c – Ep275)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Aug 18th 2024 12:57am EDT

    On the morning of May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York in a plane he helped design on the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 33 hours later, after braving 3,600 miles over ice cold water and bone chilling fog in the North Atlantic, Lindbergh touched down in […]

  • Editing Humanity – The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Aug 4th 2024 6:22am EDT

    As technology has advanced throughout human history, societies have adapted their way of life to try to incorporate the advantages offered while limiting the consequences. The automobile for example freed people from the limited range and unpredictable nature of the horse, but also created a need for traffic safety laws and research into pollution controls. […]

  • Editing Humanity – The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing (Myth20c – Ep274)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Aug 4th 2024 4:17am EDT

    As technology has advanced throughout human history, societies have adapted their way of life to try to incorporate the advantages offered while limiting the consequences. The automobile for example freed people from the limited range and unpredictable nature of the horse, but also created a need for traffic safety laws and research into pollution controls. […]

  • Soldiers of Reason – The RAND Corporation – with Thomas777

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jul 15th 2024 7:24pm EDT

    The world has rarely seen a time where two powers dominate the entire globe – almost utterly and completely – like in the latter half of the 20th Century with the United States and the Soviet Union, as our guest Thomas777 tonight points out. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, it also […]

  • Soldiers of Reason – The RAND Corporation – with Thomas777 (Myth20c – Ep273)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jul 15th 2024 4:59pm EDT

    The world has rarely seen a time where two powers dominate the entire globe – almost utterly and completely – like in the latter half of the 20th Century with the United States and the Soviet Union, as our guest Thomas777 tonight points out. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, it also […]

  • Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in a time of Empire

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jun 21st 2024 2:07am EDT

    Serving as emperor of Rome from 161AD to 189AD, Marcus Aurelius was considered the last of the five ‘good emperors’, and oversaw a time of relative peace and prosperity at home while stabilizing the empire’s frontiers abroad. Noted for his modesty and dedication to stoic philosophy, Aurelius’ writings serve as a guidepost for many seeking […]

  • Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in a time of Empire (Myth20c – Ep272)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jun 21st 2024 12:23am EDT

    Serving as emperor of Rome from 161AD to 189AD, Marcus Aurelius was considered the last of the five ‘good emperors’, and oversaw a time of relative peace and prosperity at home while stabilizing the empire’s frontiers abroad. Noted for his modesty and dedication to stoic philosophy, Aurelius’ writings serve as a guidepost for many seeking […]

  • Confessions of a Private Equity Operator (Myth20c – Ep271)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Jun 2nd 2024 4:41am EDT

    Wall Street has famously been a place for young and ambitious people looking to make a career in finance, and has been host to numerous boom and bust phases, whether it be the IPO craze of the late 90s or the mortgage derivative boom in the 2000s. In the 1980s, leveraged buyout (LBO) firms like […]

  • Deus Ex Machina – Apple and the Ghost of Steve Jobs

    Myth Of The 20th Century - May 20th 2024 5:34am EDT

    Since its founding in 1976, Apple has been at or near the center of personal computing. Led by legendary founder Steve Jobs, who described the company as lying at the intersection between liberal arts and technology, Apple pioneered the introduction of the graphical user interface, the music player, and the smartphone to everyday people around […]

  • Deus Ex Machina – Apple and the Ghost of Steve Jobs (Myth20c – Ep270)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - May 20th 2024 3:28am EDT

    Since its founding in 1976, Apple has been at or near the center of personal computing. Led by legendary founder Steve Jobs, who described the company as lying at the intersection between liberal arts and technology, Apple pioneered the introduction of the graphical user interface, the music player, and the smartphone to everyday people around […]

  • Statistician to the Stars – William M Briggs

    Myth Of The 20th Century - May 9th 2024 5:12am EDT

    Mark Twain once quipped, regarding truth in journalism, that “there are lies, damned lies – and then there are statistics.” Interpretations vary, but a common take away is that people lie to others using fancy numbers. This is almost certainly true – but what is explored with tonight’s guest, statistician and professor William M. Briggs, […]

  • Statistician to the Stars – William M Briggs (Myth20c – 269)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - May 9th 2024 4:07am EDT

    Mark Twain once quipped, regarding truth in journalism, that “there are lies, damned lies – and then there are statistics.” Interpretations vary, but a common take away is that people lie to others using fancy numbers. This is almost certainly true – but what is explored with tonight’s guest, statistician and professor William M. Briggs, […]

  • Generation ’68 – The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy (Pete Quiñones Show – Ep1043)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Apr 22nd 2024 11:56pm EDT

    Thanks to Pete Quiñones for hosting on his show. The Pete Quinones Show – Episode 1043 – Generation 68 – The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy Adam and Lance join Pete to talk about the content of Kerry Bolton’s latest book, “Generation ’68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy.” They discuss Bolton’s assertion that the […]

  • Generation ’68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy (Pete Quiñones Show – Ep1043)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Apr 22nd 2024 11:20pm EDT

    Thanks to Pete Quiñones for hosting on his show. Adam and Lance join Pete to talk about the content of Kerry Bolton’s latest book, “Generation ’68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy.” They discuss Bolton’s assertion that the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the West was a top-down project by elites.THE BOOK: Generation ’68: […]

  • Friedrich List – National System of Political Economy

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Apr 7th 2024 5:21am EDT

    Economics today is an institutionalized profession, with academic departments, research grants, and millions of practitioners in the finance and government sectors. In the late 18th and early 19th century, however, economists were not part of any formalized profession, and ranged in background from professors of logic and moral philosophy in the case of Adam Smith […]

  • Friedrich List – National System of Political Economy (Myth20c – Ep278)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Apr 7th 2024 4:44am EDT

    Economics today is an institutionalized profession, with academic departments, research grants, and millions of practitioners in the finance and government sectors. In the late 18th and early 19th century, however, economists were not part of any formalized profession, and ranged in background from professors of logic and moral philosophy in the case of Adam Smith […]

  • Russia at War – Command Economy

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Mar 23rd 2024 3:33am EDT

    Vladimir Putin recently won reelection as Russia’s president by a wide margin, making him the country’s longest serving ruler since Josef Stalin. Both men have also uniquely presided over their country’s largest-scale conflicts, throwing support to the argument that economic sanctions placed on countries during war only serve to entrench rather than dislodge their leaders. […]

  • Russia at War – Command Economy (Myth20c – Ep277)

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Mar 22nd 2024 4:50pm EDT

    Vladimir Putin recently won reelection as Russia’s president by a wide margin, making him the country’s longest serving ruler since Josef Stalin. Both men have also uniquely presided over their country’s largest-scale conflicts, throwing support to the argument that economic sanctions placed on countries during war only serve to entrench rather than dislodge their leaders. […]

  • Free Man Beyond the Wall – Pete Quinones

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Mar 8th 2024 3:32am EST

    Many of us on the disaffected political right got here at one point or another through libertarianism, which appeals to those most usually content with doing their own thing. If 2020 taught us anything, however, with COVID lockdowns, riots, and suspicious elections, the powers that be are not only not content with allowing free choice, […]

  • Brazil – a Tumble in the Jungle

    Myth Of The 20th Century - Feb 6th 2024 12:15am EST

    The largest country in Latin America – in terms of population, land mass, and economy – is a crown worn indisputably by Brazil. But the history of this land, spanning four timezones and over five centuries of development, is one marked by tumultuous governance and political conflict, with different crowns worn by monarchs, military dictators, […]