Rhyming Chaos

By Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova

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Interviews with people who have lived through or studied periods of great change, upheaval, chaos, and authoritarian takeover.

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Episode Date
Hegemonic suicide and medieval peasant brain
Mar 25, 2026
"That devil has to follow you everywhere"—activism in Singapore
Jan 19, 2026
China's disastrous first president
Jan 07, 2026
The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper
Dec 03, 2025
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
Nov 18, 2025
Trump is the symptom, not the disease
Nov 15, 2025
How does a city feel when it's invaded by an occupying army?
Nov 07, 2025
Protest and repression in Belarus
Oct 28, 2025
When will people rise up and overthrow the dictator? Not now.
Oct 23, 2025
Charm and authoritarianism in the 21st century
Oct 15, 2025
A constant bombardment of noise and information: China, 1974 to America, 2025
Oct 04, 2025
Mobutu: The dictator who wanted to make Zaire great again
Sep 30, 2025
The illusion of benevolent dictatorship
Sep 24, 2025
The abuse of history in China, Russia, North Korea, and Trump's America
Sep 16, 2025
An African vision for freedom
Sep 05, 2025
Lysenko: RFK Jr.'s Soviet predecessor
Aug 28, 2025
American concentration camps
Aug 24, 2025
A mathematician looks at Trump's authoritarian takeover
Aug 22, 2025
Africa's most famous dictator, Idi Amin, and Donald Trump
Aug 15, 2025
Iran's past and the future of America
Aug 11, 2025
Why the U.S. is now a developing country
Aug 01, 2025
Balkan wars and culture wars, from Slobodan Milošević to Trump
Jul 22, 2025
The surveillance state in China and America
Jul 14, 2025
Five decades in Russia: From the Era of Stagnation to the invasion of Ukraine
Jul 07, 2025
Modi and the rise of the Hindu Right
Jun 30, 2025
The horrors of European history and today's America
Jun 24, 2025
Lessons for America from the Milk Tea Alliance
Jun 16, 2025
If we had learned the lessons of Italy's Berlusconi, we would not have Trump
Jun 06, 2025
Paul Kagame's Rwanda, big men of Africa, and Trump
Jun 03, 2025
"Don’t open the door to nobody!” Life in Pinochet's Chile and Trump's America.
May 29, 2025
How should we live in Erdoğan's Turkey and Trump's America?
May 24, 2025
Rhyming News: Trump and Musk's "white genocide" scam
May 23, 2025
The fall of Saigon and the fall of D.C.
May 21, 2025
Don’t shoot your neighbors, invite them to dinner
May 09, 2025
North Korea, a model for Donald Trump?
May 01, 2025
South Korea: Hope for democracy in an age of madmen
Apr 20, 2025
Self-censorship and media control in China, Russia, and the U.S.A.
Apr 07, 2025
Falsified democracy in Hungary and America
Mar 30, 2025
Pol Pot's Cambodia, Musk and Trump's America
Mar 23, 2025
Trump—the Hugo Chávez of the U.S.A?
Mar 19, 2025
How to loot a country: Lessons for the U.S. from South Africa
Feb 28, 2025
How to commit a self-coup, in the U.S. and in China, with Geremie Barmé
Feb 20, 2025