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How to be a Dictator
FromPower Corrupts
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
If you're trying to consolidate power as a dictator, what's the best way to go about it? Is it better to be feared or loved? How do you eliminate your enemies? We'll speak to Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion who now plots his moves against Vladimir Putin. And we'll travel to Thailand to speak to a journalist who got kidnapped by a military junta in a surreal attempt to give him Stockholm Syndrome for his dictatorial captors. ---- Power Corrupts is written and narrated by Brian Klaas. The executive producer and sound editor is George McDonagh.
Released:
Feb 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (47)
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