Recent Episodes
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Traces the history of mental healthcare institutions from asylums through deinstitutionalization beginning in the 1960s
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Guest Saagar Enjeti (Breaking Points co-host) discusses how media environment changes have transformed American democracy
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Jocko and Darryl explore Israeli and Palestinian perspectives on their conflict
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Jocko and Darryl analyze the Hamas assault on southern Israel and the Israeli response without dwelling on historical context
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Analyzes Twitter's information environment corruption by politically-motivated actors in Big Tech and government
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Russia intensifies Ukraine conflict in eighth month by targeting civilian infrastructure and deploying hundreds of thousands of reservists
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Examines epidemic of mass shootings in America including Columbine, Virginia Tech, Las Vegas, Parkland, Buffalo, and Uvalde
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Russia's early lightning strikes were repelled by Ukrainian defense, forcing consolidation into grinding eastern campaign
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Historical societies lacked effective police, courts, and states, relying on honor-based vengeance systems
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Guest Scott Horton (Libertarian Institute director and antiwar.com senior editor) joins discussion
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Post-WWII Western alliance confronted aggressive Soviet Union with nuclear weapons and history of internal mass murder
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Jocko and Darryl discuss free speech principles and media responsibility
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Both Cold War superpowers recognized necessity of avoiding direct military confrontation due to nuclear weapons
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Mike Pompeo's admission that CIA engaged in lying, cheating, and stealing as institutional practice
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Mass media centralization and politicization has fractured public discourse into partisan information silos
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French Revolution ended limited warfare era and introduced total peoples' wars exemplified by Napoleon
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Continues 20th century narrative following 1917 entry of US and Soviet Union into global power politics
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Guest Bryan Suits (The Dark Secret Place podcast host) discusses Chinese propaganda films and military technology
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Analyzes catastrophic final days of US war in Afghanistan and chaotic withdrawal
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Lenin's quote about decades happening in weeks frames analysis of critical year 1917