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Mike Duncan’s voice has a peculiar power over my wife. “Hello,” he’ll say, as a few perilous bars of classical music swell in the background, “and welcome to Revolutions.” “Hi Mike,” she’ll reply, already drowsy. Within minutes, she’ll be asleep. This isn’t to say that Duncan’s subject material is boring. His podcast offers blow-by-blow reports… Continue reading 10 Life Lessons from 10 Revolutions
No country is more obsessed with statistics than the United States. Just take a look at their two most popular sports: baseball and American football. To watch either of them on television is to track seven or eight different scorecards at the same time — how many points each team has, how many yards until… Continue reading A Review of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72”