The Secrets of Statecraft

Christopher Buckley on The History of the Social Faux Pas

Mar 17, 2022

39:58

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Fraudian Slips - The Ponymous Froudian Slip

01:32

The Most Difficult Thing About Being a Royal Is to Keep a Straight Face

01:25

A Biography of a Traitor

05:44

Introduction

2min

'Oh Dear, I've Made a Terrible Fap'

2min

Fraudian Slips - The Ponymous Froudian Slip

2min

Those Who Commit Les Majeste

5min

The Artichoke and the Poems at Buckingham Palace

2min

Missus Styvesant's Mispronunciation

5min

Scrape Before the Royalty

2min

The Most Difficult Thing About Being a Royal Is to Keep a Straight Face

1min

Diplomacy Is a Rich Stheme

2min

10.

I'm Chevy Chase, and You're Not

2min

11.

Ford's Verbal Mishaps Have Had Serious Political Repercussions

2min

12.

The French Aristocrats, Who Invented the Phrase Fopar

2min

13.

The Fopa, the Human Comedy

2min

14.

What's Your Favorite Historical Counter Factor?

3min

15.

A Biography of a Traitor

6min

In this episode of Secrets of Statecraft, actual historian Andrew Roberts talks to humorist and self-appointed “historian” Christopher Buckley about the faux pas and its celebrated and checkered past. This episode is brimming with witty repartee and hilarious anecdotes featuring several historically significant figures, and not one faux pas (that we know about ).

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