Didactic Mind, Ep 75: The Evil That Men Do

In this week's episode, I talk about the strange and terrible power of real, material, physical evil, and its lasting effect on all of us. I explain why it has such power and how its power persists for so long - and why and how it fails, each and every time. And I examine the ways in which we can all stand up against evil. This is probably one of my more unusual podcasts, in that I pull in references from all over the shop - Stranger Things, books, movies, history, and so on. But I had a lot of fun talking through it, and I hope you enjoy it as well.

Video References

• Marlon Brando and Charlton Heston doing their versions of Mark Antony's speech
• Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus
• The Death of Stalin
• In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed
• Dr. Michael Heiser on Stranger Things and the nature of evil

Further Reading

• Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Allan Bullock
• Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan
• Reading about the Holodomor or "Great Hunger" in Ukraine

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