
Downstream: A History of Sex Scandals w/ Steven Methven
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The Politics of Power in the Contemporary World
In ancient Rome, it wasn't really about the suggestion of undue influence being wielded unless it was on the part of these older men. Whereas in a lot of these cases, it's not very clear to me that there is such an interesting question about that in the contemporary world. So we're going to skip like a thousand years. And I want to sort of compare two figures if that's okay. One is Le Kretzia Borgia and the other is Marie Antoinette.
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