Episode 66: Übermensch at Work
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Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take) masterpiece/gimmick *Rope. *Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Ü**bermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark)’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”   Links

• Yoel Inbar) [yoelinbar.net]
• Very Bad Wizards )Episode 22): An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness) [verybadwizards.com]
• Rope) [IMDB.com]
• Leopold and Loeb) [wikipedia.org]
• Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds) (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The Leopold and Loeb Trial Page) (UMKC Law)
• Paul Gauguin) [wikipedia.org]
• The Moon and Sixpence) by W. Somerset Maugham [wikipedia.org]
• Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy) [plato.stanford.edu]
• Damasio, A. "Remembering When,)" Scientific American, 2002. [antonellapavese.com]
• What's the matter with a little brother sister action?) by Tamler Sommers [psychologytoday.com]

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