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Business Wars Presents: The AOL-Time Warner Disaster
Think business is boring? What about when your streaming bill goes up, or your favorite restaurant files for bankruptcy? Do you ever wonder what’s go…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Forgotten Power-Broker of the Roman Republic: Interview with Professor Douglas Boin
Season 5 Episode 140
Most people today remember the Roman aristocratic woman Clodia as the target of one of Cicero's nastiest works, but Douglas Boin has written a wonder…
1 year, 2 months ago
How the Horse Changed the World: Interview with Author David Chaffetz
Season 5 Episode 139
David Chaffetz, author of the recent and truly outstanding book Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, joins Tides to talk …
1 year, 2 months ago
Listen Now: Lawless Planet
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you …
1 year, 2 months ago
Why Did Rome Win?
Season 5 Episode 138
Why did Rome win? It's a simple question, but the answer is anything but. To figure it out, we have to look not only at what made Rome special but al…
1 year, 2 months ago
Guerrilla Warfare and Insurgency in the American Civil War: Interview with Professor Andrew Fialka
Season 5 Episode 137
We usually think of the American Civil War as a conflict fought between massive armies at famous battlefields like Gettysburg, but that's not really …
1 year, 3 months ago
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The woman of his dreams. There was just one small detail:…
1 year, 3 months ago
Encore: Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?
Season 5 Episode 136
At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key figure in t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Encore: The Rise and Fall of the Medici Bank
Season 5 Episode 135
The Medici name still carries echoes of power and labyrinthine politics. But the Medici got their start as bankers, and built a financial empire that…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Roman Conquest of the Hellenistic World
Season 5 Episode 134
For most of its history, Rome barely bothered with the Greek east. Then, quite suddenly, Rome exploded onto the scene, laying low the two most powerf…
1 year, 3 months ago