Revisionist History
Episodes
The Satire Paradox
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the political turmoil of mid-1990s Britain, a brilliant young comic named Harry Enfield set out to satirize the ideology and politics of Prime Mi...
Generous Orthodoxy
11 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A 98-year-old minister takes on his church over the subject of gay marriage—and teaches the rest of us what it means to stand up in protest. To lear...
Blame Game
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer and fall of 2009, hundreds of Toyota owners came forward with an alarming allegation: Their cars were suddenly and uncontrollably accele...
Hallelujah
28 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does genius emerge? An exploration of different types of innovation—through the lens of Elvis Costello’s extraordinary song “Deportee,” on...
My Little Hundred Million
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma ma...
Food Fight
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bowdoin College and Vassar College are two elite private schools that compete for the same students. But one of those schools is trying hard to addres...
Carlos Doesn’t Remember
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year in the United States, most never make it to univers...
The Big Man Can't Shoot
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst fo...
Saigon, 1965
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnam...
The Lady Vanishes
16 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort...
Introducing Revisionist History
03 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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