Oh sure, everyone’s go-to for imperial collapse tends to be Rome, but what broad lessons are there to be gleaned from every single other civilizational implosion, from Mesopotamia to the Mayans to the forgotten pyramid builders along the Mississippi River? Such is the intriguing set-up for Goliaths Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, the…

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* The morning after pill and Roy Campanella’s glove

* Why does Moynihan look like late-stage Nick Nolte?

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* Comparatively, Alex Jones isn’t that bad (Ed. note: Spoke too soon! Immediately following this rec…

Matt and Michael are joined by John Spencer, Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute.

•Gary Busey and the B-movie military raid on the Turkish Embassy

•Bagging and tagging isn’t as bad as it sounds

•20/20 De-Baathification

•Post 9/11 Islamophilia

•The hockey analogy for war with Hamas

•Human shielding & bomb shelter inequities

•Gaza vs Berlin 1945

•Journalism in Gaza

•The IDF’s absent PR operation

•Starvation, genocide, and Wikipedia

•Amalek

•Trump’s 180 on Ukraine

•Comedian Dave Smith on military aid

•God bless Russian incompetence

•Red Dawn had it all wrong

•Cancel John’s tickets to Stalingrad

•John Spencer, expert? The New York Times is on it.

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