Horses

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October 08, 2025 AK-47: The Peoples' Weapon
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Sources:
AK-47: The Story of the People's Gun, Hodges
AK-47, Kahner
ANALYZING THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF KALASHNIKOV RIFLES: A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, AND GLOBAL INFLUENCE, Singh et al
The AK-47: the world's favourite killing machine, Amnesty Int'l

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53 min
September 02, 2025 The Only War You Will Not Win
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Sources:
Murray Stein - Jung's Map of the Soul
Jolande Szekacs Jacobi - The Way of Individuation
Bud Harris - Becoming Whole
Robert A. Johnson - Owning Your Own Shadow
Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams - Meeting the Shadow

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38 min
July 15, 2025 How Phones Ruined Everything
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36 min
June 27, 2025 How to Break a Man
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sources:
Defense of the Absolute Prohibition of Torture, Mayerfeld
Why Torture Doesn't Work, O'Mara
Torturing the Mind, O'Mara
Torture and Democracy, Rejali
Torture Memos, Cole
Representing Torture, Schlag
American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, Otterman

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1 hr 16 min
April 29, 2025 The Death of an Innocent
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sources:
Into the Wild, by John Krakauer
The Journal of Chris McCandless
The Wild Truth, by Carine McCandless

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1 hr
March 13, 2025 The Unthinkable
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sources:
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear War, A Scenario (Annie Jacobsen)
Fredric Solomon - The Medical Implications of Nuclear War (Institute for Medicine, National Academy of Sciences) (1986)
The Next Nuclear War - Kroenig

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56 min
January 30, 2025 The Age of VAMPIRES
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Sources:
Paul Barber - Vampires, Burial, and Death_ Folklore and Reality-Yale University Press (2008)
Elizabeth Miller - Dracula (2001)
In Search of Dracula - Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu
Nick Groom - The Vampire_ A New History-Yale University Press (2018)

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56 min
December 19, 2024 On the Heights of Despair
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Recommended reading and sources:
"The Palliative Society" by Byung-Chul Han
"On the Heights of Despair" by Emil Cioran
"The Last Messiah" by Zapffe

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18 min
December 04, 2024 GENGHIS KHAN: The Peasant Who Conquered the World
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Sources:
Frank McLynn: Genghis Khan
Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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46 min
November 19, 2024 The Book that Killed the American Dream
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SOURCES:
Scott Fitzgerald's Criticism of America Author(s): Marius Bewley
A Reality Check on the American Dream in The Great Gatsby: A Textual Analysis through Strain Theories Rahul Borah
The Waste Land and the Valley of Ashes: What Remains of the American Dream Alec Leibsohn
American Dreaming: Really Reading The Great Gatsby William E. Cain
The Failure of the American Dream in “The Great Gatsby” Zamira Hodo
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Money, Money, Money Otto Friedrich
"Herstory" and Daisy Buchanan Leland S. Person, Jr.
America in Fitzgerald, Ronald Berman
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1 hr

About Horses

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HORSES is a series of artfully crafted visual & audio essays by Michael Sorensen. Episodes cover a fascinating range of topics rooted in History, Philosophy, and Culture. Captivating and distinctively paced, HORSES offers an oasis of thoughtful storytelling in a chaotic media landscape.