Beste Inward Empire podcasts (2024)

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Selling Out 1:35:01

5M ago1:35:01

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In 1968, Jerry Rubin was sure that the baby boomers were the vanguard of a second American Revolution. A leader of the countercultural Yippies, he pioneered a new kind of absurdist political theater aimed at turning the young against the establishment: exorcising evil spirits from the Pentagon, throwing blood at ambassadors, and nominating a pig fo…

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The Diem Experiment (Part Five) 1:53:56

4+ y ago1:53:56

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In November 1963, a faction of South Vietnamese generals overthrew and assassinated Ngo Dinh Diem with the support of the Kennedy administration. In the final part of this series, we'll explore how infighting, ambition, and miscommunication sealed the fate of the Diem Experiment and set South Vietnam on the path to disaster.…

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The Diem Experiment (Part Four) 1:28:41

4+ y ago1:28:41

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After destroying his rivals in the Battle of Saigon, President Diem sets out to build a new nation in South Vietnam. On the one hand he offers land reform and a glittering new middle class, built on a tide of American aid. On the other hand is a ruthless anti-communist campaign of denunciations, torture, and re-education camps. A sprawling cast of …

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The Diem Experiment (Part Three) 1:04:35

5y ago1:04:35

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In the 1950s, most Americans viewed the Cold War as a battle between freedom and tyranny. There was just one problem: how to explain alliances with anti-communist authoritarians like Ngo Dinh Diem. In this episode, we'll explore how American politicians, lobbyists, and one very enterprising Navy doctor imagined the new Republic of Vietnam as a bast…

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The Diem Experiment (Part Two) 1:18:41

5+ y ago1:18:41

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Back in Saigon in 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem becomes premier of a country shattered by war and partition. With reunification elections looming, Diem barely controls the grounds of his own palace. Hostile Frenchmen, religious militias, a crime syndicate, ex-emperor Bao Dai, and Diem's own military conspire to end his rule before it can begin. Baffled Ameri…

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The Diem Experiment (Part One) 1:29:24

5+ y ago1:29:24

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For nine years at the height of the Cold War, America's global crusade against communism rested on the shoulders of Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Hailed as a "miracle man" who brought the blessings of democracy and development to South Vietnam, Diem became a celebrity. But his miracles had a steep price. As his regime soaked up millions of dolla…

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Soldiers of Capital (Part Two) 1:37:54

6+ y ago1:37:54

1:37:54

After sending the Molly Maguires to the scaffold in 1877, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency plunged headlong into America's labor conflict. At the vanguard of its war on organized labor was the Protective Patrol, an armed force that deployed to over seventy major strikes. Was the Patrol a lawkeeping elite, as the Agency and its employers claime…

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Soldiers of Capital (Part One) 1:17:21

7y ago1:17:21

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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was 19th-century America's premier private police force, the leader of a flourishing industry that offered solutions to the chaos and corruption of the nation's law enforcement. But the Pinkertons were more than just detectives. By the 1890s, they were a private army-on-call for powerful corporations. In the fi…

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From Camelot to Abilene 1:13:10

7+ y ago1:13:10

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In a country as big and diverse as America, stories are crucially important to our sense of common identity. But where do those stories come from, and who creates them? In this episode, we examine the work of writer Owen Wister, who gave Americans one of the touchstones of our common culture: the cowboy. But beneath the familiar surface of this leg…

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part Two) 2:50:02

8y ago2:50:02

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When a railroad employee walks off the job in Baltimore, it triggers a violent chain of events that engulfs the industrialized North. From Pittsburgh to San Francisco, city after city erupts in rioting and street battles as railroad men, factory workers, and the unemployed take on militias, paramilitary groups, and the US Army in a spontaneous revo…

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One) 1:07:18

8+ y ago1:07:18

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If you think 2016 is a turbulent year for the United States, try 1877. The country is, as one observer puts it, "on the edge of a volcano." Four years into a crippling economic crisis, a hopelessly corrupt government is beset by domestic terrorism, frontier conflicts, and class war. As cities and factories replace small towns and family farms, new,…

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Buffalo Bill, the Mythic West, and the Imperial Frontier 1:23:29

8+ y ago1:23:29

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William F. Cody - better known as Buffalo Bill - did more than any other person to translate the history of the American West into the language of popular culture. This episode explores how he molded his own past, and the history of the frontier, into a grand story of national progress and conquest in dime novels, stage plays, his trademark Wild We…

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The Unending Civil War of Ambrose Bierce 2:26:16

9y ago2:26:16

2:26:16

Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War veteran and the author of the most visceral and unsettling fiction to come out of the most violent conflict in American history. A man out of step with his own time, he insisted on bringing Americans face-to-face with the harsh realities not just of war, but politics, religion, marriage, family, business, and corrupti…

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Sword of the Wilderness (Part Two) 2:33:55

9+ y ago2:33:55

2:33:55

Forty years after the Pequot War, a new conflict threatens to tear New England apart. Decades of uneasy coexistence between Puritan colonists and native Algonquians are about to come to a bloody end. King Philip's War will become one of the most destructive wars in American history, a total war shaped by religious ideology and cultural differences.…

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Sword of the Wilderness (Part One) 2:44:44

10y ago2:44:44

2:44:44

The year is 1620. It is a time of upheaval and apocalyptic fears in England. In the midst of economic disaster, poverty, crime, and ever-worsening religious and political repression, a fundamentalist movement called Puritanism dreams of spiritual and national regeneration. A splinter group of Separatists transplants itself to the shores and forests…

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Selling Out 1:35:01

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The Diem Experiment (Part Five) 1:53:56

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The Diem Experiment (Part Four) 1:28:41

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The Diem Experiment (Part Three) 1:04:35

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The Diem Experiment (Part Two) 1:18:41

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The Diem Experiment (Part One) 1:29:24

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Soldiers of Capital (Part Two) 1:37:54

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Soldiers of Capital (Part One) 1:17:21

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From Camelot to Abilene 1:13:10

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part Two) 2:50:02

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1877: The Great Strike and the Red Specter of the Commune (Part One) 1:07:18

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Buffalo Bill, the Mythic West, and the Imperial Frontier 1:23:29

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The Unending Civil War of Ambrose Bierce 2:26:16

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Sword of the Wilderness (Part Two) 2:33:55

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Sword of the Wilderness (Part One) 2:44:44

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