Brian Klaas
Tuesday 23 November 2021 : Artificial intelligence is the frontier of human innovation. But it has a dark side, too. In this episode, we explore how AI intersects with...
Tuesday 16 November 2021 : Is the next war going to happen in space? What are space weapons like, anyway? And why should we be worried about the space ventures of...
Tuesday 09 November 2021 : Is it a crime to steal back something that was once yours? That's the question we'll tackle this week, as we look at a string of...
Tuesday 02 November 2021 : This week's episode is an excerpt from the opening chapter of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. (If you pre-order the book...
Tuesday 26 October 2021 : The International Criminal Court prosecutes perpetrators of horrific crimes. But what if the perpetrator is also a victim? That's the...
Tuesday 19 October 2021 : How do you capture a pirate after they’ve hijacked a ship? In today’s episode, we look at two ingenious sting operations that managed to...
Tuesday 12 October 2021 : Pirates can teach us quite a lot about democracy and economics. What can Blackbeard teach us about signaling theory? Why were pirates...
Tuesday 05 October 2021 : Can doing the wrong thing ever be the right policy? That’s a question we’ll tackle this week as we look at the possibility of letting...
Tuesday 21 September 2021 : Could you fake your death and get away with it? In this episode, we look at fake identities, from people who've tried to fake their own...
Tuesday 14 September 2021 : Is going into exile safe any longer? A few years ago, a former Rwandan intelligence chief hiding out in exile was found strangled to death...
Tuesday 07 September 2021 : In early 2021, hackers infiltrated the software that controlled the city’s water supply in Oldsmar, Florida. Through dumb luck, they...
Tuesday 31 August 2021 : We all know that offshore areas of financial secrecy exist. In this episode, we’re going to take a look at the origin story of one of...
Thursday 05 August 2021 : They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when it comes to the underworld of corruption, murder, and greed, from...
Thursday 09 April 2020 : Pandemics are horrifying. But what if one could be unleashed deliberately? How did ancient armies from the Greeks to the Mongol hordes use...
Thursday 09 April 2020 : Pandemics are horrifying. But what if one could be unleashed deliberately — by terrorists or a disgruntled scientist? How did ancient...
Thursday 02 April 2020 : When revolutions happen, everything changes. In this episode, we'll look at why one revolution was launched when a rebel leader in southeast...
Thursday 19 March 2020 : Have you ever made a catastrophic mistake? What if your mistakes could cause an empire to fall, a war to start, or thirty million people to...
Thursday 12 March 2020 : Corruption is usually hidden. But sometimes, it’s out in the open — either by design, or by incompetence. In this episode, we explore...
Thursday 05 March 2020 : Christopher Blair has been called the Godfather of Fake News. He's an American troll. And whether you realized it or not, you've probably...
Thursday 27 February 2020 : When a brutal dictatorship collapses, there's a big problem: everyone who knows how to run the government is someone who worked for the...
Power Corrupts
Brian Klaas
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