Episodes

  • Episode 497: The Terror Begins

    Episode 497: The Terror Begins
    Nov 29 2025
    France sleepwalks into one of the vicious periods of the French Revolution as the countryside erupts in revolt.

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    18 mins
  • Episode 496: The Trial of Louis XVI

    Episode 496: The Trial of Louis XVI
    Nov 28 2025
    The trial of Louis XVI ends with the last Bourbon monarch being led to the guillotine. The reaction of the rest of Europe is not good. Hence, the War of the First Coalition.

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    24 mins
  • Episode 495: The Fall of the King

    Episode 495: The Fall of the King
    Nov 27 2025
    Europe finally reacts to the French Revolution, and a startling discovery sets in motion events which will condemn Louis XVI to death.

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    19 mins
  • Episode 494: Saint-Dominque

    Episode 494: Saint-Dominque
    Nov 24 2025
    Saint-Dominque, soon to be Haiti, erupts in its own revolution.

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    23 mins
  • Episode 493: The Flight of the Royals

    Episode 493: The Flight of the Royals
    Nov 21 2025
    Louis XVI makes a break for it. France passes a new Constitution into law. And the storm clouds continue to grow around the French Revolution.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 492: Bread and the Church

    Episode 492: Bread and the Church
    Nov 14 2025
    Riots in Paris provoke unrest, while in the countryside French peasants recoil at attacks upon the Catholic Church.

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    28 mins
  • Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic

    Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
    Nov 11 2025
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    In his own day, the ancient philosopher Diogenes the Cynic had a reputation for eccentricity, heckling his fellow philosophers in the marketplace, living in a clay pot, and relieving himself in public. Since his death in 323 BCE, devoted followers made him and his ideas famous the world over. But what we think we know about Diogenes remains distorted and sanitized.

    In Diogenes, classicist Inger N.I. Kuin scours all existing evidence of Diogenes and his followers to offer an in-depth account of Diogenes’ life and thought, revealing a man whose innovative ideas about power, death, nature, and the body have much to teach the contemporary world. He pioneered a vision of simplicity and autonomy in his day-to-day life, stressing the importance of living in the here and now, and of always thinking for oneself. Diogenes stands apart as history’s first recorded critic of slavery and a proud exile from polite society whose challenging thought proved foundational for the Stoics and their successors.

    Diogenes rehabilitates Diogenes as a compelling thinker for the twenty-first century, one who demands that we look at our society with fresh eyes and be unafraid of change—starting with ourselves.
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    37 mins
  • Episode 491: The Women's March

    Episode 491: The Women's March
    Nov 7 2025
    Bread shortages force the Revolution's hand.

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    22 mins