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Al Pacino: How Hollywood's Greatest Actor Weaponized His Anxiety
Jun 17, 202619 min
Thucydides: The Failed General Who Invented Political History
Jun 17, 202621 min
Tecumseh: The Shawnee Leader Who Almost Redrew North America
Jun 17, 202622 min
Khufu: The Pharaoh Behind the Great Pyramid and a Tiny Statue
Jun 17, 202622 min
Pompey the Great: The General Who Could Not Stop Breaking the Republic
Jun 17, 202625 min
Ibn Khaldun: The Scholar Who Discovered the Cycle of Empires
Jun 17, 202622 min
Murray Gell-Mann: Quarks, Jaguars, and Billionaire Scandals
Jun 17, 202619 min
Marc Chagall: The Painter Who Turned Survival Into Color
Jun 17, 202624 min
Solon: The Lawgiver Who Saved Athens and Walked Away
Jun 17, 202624 min
Mark Antony: The General Who Broke Rome for Cleopatra
Jun 17, 202655 min
Livy: The Historian Who Created the Roman Legend
Jun 17, 202621 min
Konrad Lorenz: The Nobel Laureate With a Nazi Past Who Loved Geese
Jun 17, 202623 min
Allen Ginsberg: The Man Who Howled at Moloch
Jun 17, 202620 min
The Nobel Prize as a Death Sentence: When the Highest Honor Destroyed Its Winners
Jun 17, 202620 min
Freeman Dyson: The Subversive Genius Who Refused to Stay in One Field
Jun 17, 202621 min
William of Ockham: The Fugitive Monk Who Invented Occam's Razor
Jun 17, 202620 min
Pablo Neruda: The Poet Whose Bones May Hold a Murder Mystery
Jun 17, 202615 min
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: The Fabric Merchant Who Found Invisible Life
Jun 17, 202624 min
Federico García Lorca: The Unsolved Murder of Spain's Greatest Poet
Jun 17, 202618 min
Frederick Sanger: The Quiet Man Who Sequenced Our DNA
Jun 17, 202619 min
Rosalind Franklin: The Third Man of the Double Helix
Jun 17, 202621 min
Bonnie and Clyde: The Brutal Reality Behind the American Legend
Jun 17, 202624 min
Jules Verne: Why the Father of Science Fiction Was Not a Prophet
Jun 17, 202620 min
Tom Wolfe: The Man in the White Suit Who Rewrote American Journalism
Jun 17, 202620 min
Stefan Zweig: The Writer Who Inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jun 17, 202619 min
John Stuart Mill: The Boy Raised as a Thinking Machine
Jun 17, 202625 min
William Burroughs: The Writer Who Shot His Wife and Chased the Ugly Spirit
Jun 17, 202621 min
Peter Abelard: The Medieval Philosopher Who Invented the Ethics of Intention
Jun 17, 202621 min
Louis de Broglie: The Aristocrat Who Accidentally Broke Physics
Jun 17, 202622 min
Roger Penrose: The Physicist Who Argues Consciousness Is Quantum
Jun 17, 202620 min
Plotinus: The Philosopher Who Mapped the Architecture of the Divine
Jun 17, 202611 min
Pablo Escobar: Inside the $30 Billion Narco Empire
Jun 17, 202622 min
Maxim Gorky: The Writer Trapped in Stalin's Gilded Cage
Jun 17, 202622 min
Epictetus: How a Slave Became the Freest Mind in Rome
Jun 17, 202620 min
Otto Hahn: The Chemist Who Split the Atom and Wept
Jun 17, 202622 min
Naguib Mahfouz: The Nobel Laureate Who Survived the Assassin's Knife
Jun 17, 202618 min
Molière: The Comedian Who Died Playing a Hypochondriac
Jun 17, 202622 min
Jack Kerouac: The Beat Icon Who Hated the Hippies He Inspired
Jun 17, 202617 min
Lucky Luciano: The Gangster Who Built the Corporate Mafia
Jun 17, 202623 min
John Dillinger: The Bank Robber Who Built the Modern FBI
Jun 17, 202622 min
Boethius: The Prisoner Who Saved Logic for the Western World
Jun 17, 202616 min
Francis Bacon: Logic, Scandal, and Death by Frozen Chicken
Jun 17, 202625 min
Hegel and the World Soul on Horseback
Jun 17, 202621 min
George Sand: The Woman Who Outwrote the Men of Paris
Jun 17, 202622 min
Bertolt Brecht: The Playwright Who Staged His Own Survival
Jun 17, 202620 min
Baruch Spinoza: The Lens Grinder Who Redefined God
Jun 17, 202624 min
Anselm of Canterbury: The Monk Who Defied Kings With Pure Logic
Jun 17, 202621 min
Alexandre Dumas: The Author Who Lived Wilder Than His Own Fiction
Jun 17, 202621 min
Anna Akhmatova: The Poet Who Outlasted Stalin
Jun 17, 202618 min
Edmond Halley: Far More Than the Man Behind the Comet
Jun 17, 202622 min