The peasants are revolting! Bad times for England, but good times for Demetria and Isaac as they talk about boy kings, bad tax plans, and what to do when a bunch of rebels politely ask you to kill your own uncle.
This week, we’re talking about my absolute favorite poet in the history of forever: Kobayashi Issa. I promise he’s great,…
This week: what happens once the scandal goes public, and what does all this say about postwar Japan more generally?…
This week, we take a look at one of postwar Japan’s most famous political scandals, and how the efforts of…
This week, tensions within Japanese society explode as a simple stock purchase turns into a knock-down, drag out fight over…
In this week’s episode, we cover an unfortunately common type of crime, a workplace mass homicide, in an unusual location: a college campus. Did Dr. Bishop really “snap” because she was denied tenure, or were commenters using a sensational story to draw attention to one of America’s strangest employment practices?
This week, we tackle a political scandal from 1930s Japan to dig deeper into the question: just why did Japan’s…
This week, we’re discussing the autobiography of a troublemaking, low-ranking samurai whose life didn’t reshape Japan, but whose tale can…
This week, we cover one of Japan’s great unsolved crimes: the 300 million yen robbery. How did one man steal…
This week, take a deep dive with me into the life of one of the regents of the Heian Era,…