The 48 Laws of Power

In 1996, a frustrated screenwriter got a fellowship in Italy. Twenty years later, Beyoncé released "Lemonade."

Content warning: This episode includes a mention of suicide.

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Sources:

• RebeccaSolnit’s “A Paradise Built in Hell”
• Kelly Link's "White Cat, Black Dog"
• The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power”
• ABook of Anecdotes, 1957
  The Little Brown Book Of Anecdotes
• FearNothing: Self-Fashioning and Social Mobility in 50 Cent’s The 50th Law
• Thefear of conflict leads people to systematically avoid potentially valuable zero-sum situations
• TheImmigration Dilemma
• YouCan Win But I Can't Lose
• Ifyou rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
• Zero-SumThinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides
• AGenesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset
• Forbes Winslow’s Physic and Physicians
• Therole of masculinity in men's help-seeking for depression: A systematic review
• The Strange, Sad Story of Joe Orton, His Lover, and 72 Stolen Library Books
• AFailure Of Initiative
• NewOrleans reaches settlements for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina
• Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity

Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!