Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She was a biologist.
She was a generationally brilliant orator, sort of the Obama of her age.
She later became a really important suffragist.
Her father was a Pennsylvania oilman who'd been destroyed by John D. Rockefeller, and she had a grudge.
And so she researched what John D. Rockefeller was doing.
And unfortunately, she was working before they invented titles.
So her book was called The History of the Standard Oil Company Volumes 1 and 2.
But it was published in Collier's Magazine, which was a nationally read magazine, one of the most important magazines at the time.
And it was so infuriating to people.
that they demanded action from their political classes.
And by 1912, we broke it up.
Now, this is living memory, 1912.
People who were alive in 1912 are dead now, but there are people today alive who worked under those people, right?
And there are people alive who worked under those people.
We are not reinventing the lost art of a fallen civilization here.
No one's asking us to figure out how to embalm a pharaoh or build pyramids without power tools, right?
This is stuff that we can do.
And the point about this political will is it is surging all over the world.
We can't solve this as individuals, right?
You're not going to shop your way out of it.
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