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The Death of Marat: The Revolution Begins to Devour Its Children

The Rest Is History·How the French Revolution Collapsed Into Terror

2026-09-21

On 13 July 1793 Charlotte Corday drove a kitchen knife into Jean-Paul Marat's chest as he worked from his medicinal bath, and the Revolution's most incendiary street fighter became its most useful co…

The Rise Of Joseph Stalin: The Early Years

Empire·The Rise of Joseph Stalin, Explained

2026-09-14

In May 2025 a new bas-relief of Joseph Stalin appeared in a Moscow metro station, an exact replica of one torn down in the 1960s, and the question it raises is the question of this episode of Empire:…

Reading Machiavelli Back in Florence

Dwarkesh Podcast·Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer

2026-06-16

Ada Palmer begins with the political setting around The Prince: a divided Italy, unstable Florentine institutions, and a writer addressing Lorenzo de’ Medici.