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Every episode of Books Brothers is a super-in-depth, chapter-by-chapter review of a paradigm-shifting science or history book.
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The Same Two Sides Have Been Fighting Since 1642: American Nations Part 2 (opens the original)
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Part 2 of our American Nations deep dive and this is where the book really opens up. We pick up right after independence and just keep going, all the way through the Civil War, the closing of the frontier, and straight into why the map still looks like this today.Turns out the Revolutionary War wasn't really thirteen colonies teaming up against Britain, it was eleven different cultures with eleven different reasons for fighting (or not fighting). Then the country almost falls apart like five sep
American Nations and Albion's Seed: The Eleven Nations Hiding Inside America (opens the original)
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America isn't one culture, it's eleven. In this episode, we dig into Colin Woodard's American Nations (with a heavy assist from Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex review of David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed) to trace how six distinct colonial cultures, Spanish El Norte, French New France, the Puritan Yankeedom, the Cavalier Tidewater, the Dutch New Netherland, the Quaker Midlands, the Deep South, and the clannish Scots-Irish borderlands of Greater Appalachia, each left a cultural fingerprint
The Odyssey: The Cultural Programming of Ancient Man (opens the original)
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Homer's The Odyssey, broken down book by book, and why Christopher Nolan calls it the "ur-text" of everything he's ever filmed. We get into the cultural programming of ancient man: guest friendship, homecoming, hubris, rank versus virtue, and what it actually meant to "be a man" in Dark Age Greece. Plus the Cyclops, the Sirens, the underworld, Achilles' brutal reversal on glory, the contest of the bow, and the slaughter of the suitors, with a running argument about how Nolan (and Matt Damon, Tom
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