Read to the End

Read to the End

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Read to the End episodes

  • 354 Men Revisited || Was I wrong?
    There was a pretty severe backlash to my Men review with many dislikes and angry comments. Here I revisit the controversial movie.

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    15 min
  • 353 Chaos by Tom O'Neill || Charles Manson and the CIA

    Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is a book decades in the making.


    Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order - their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the 60s. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia - or dystopia - was just an acid trip away.


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    19 min
  • 351 Men by Alex Garland || What's the Deal With Men?

    Men is written and directed by Alex Garland and starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear.


    Description: A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.



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    33 min
  • 350 Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, and Cass Sunstein || Human Cacophony

    Review of Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein


    Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indistinguishable job applicants—or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to answer the phone. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same interviewer, or the same customer service agent makes different decisions depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical.


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    18 min

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From Genesis to Economics to Nietzsche, Jackson Keats applies civilizational knowledge on the road from Zero to One. Every week the show tackles works from authors including Thomas Sowell, Nassim…