The 48 Laws of Power
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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:

• Rebecca Solnit’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”)
• A Book of Anecdotes, 1957)The Little Brown Book Of Anecdotes)
• Fear Nothing: Self-Fashioning and Social Mobility in 50 Cent’s The 50th Law)
• The fear of conflict leads people to systematically avoid potentially valuable zero-sum situations)
• The Immigration Dilemma)
• You Can Win But I Can't Lose)
• If you rise, I fall: Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups)
• Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides)
• A Genesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset)
• Forbes Winslow’s Physic and Physicians)
• The role 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 )
• A Failure Of Initiative)
• New Orleans reaches settlements for police shootings after Hurricane Katrina)
• Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity)

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