Ep. 104: The Vatican With Mouse Ears
Young Heretics
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Burke's Opposition to the East India Company
The english empire was spreading out throughout this incredible vast expanse of space that nobody had known was there. And the government had an interest, therefore, in giving to the east india trading company the right and the duty to go forth and do this business. But i actually that's a more familiar story than the one i want to talk about to day, i think, to most americans. The one is burke's objections to how the eastindia company was behaving all over the world. They had become what i would call a paris state, or a para government entity. Burke spent a lot of his career trying to rectify the situation. Now he's spoken
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