Rhyming Chaos
Jeremy GoldkornA podcast about living in authoritarian times. Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova interview people who've lived through or studied periods of upheaval or tyranny, or thrived under strongman rule.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 48 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 3 months ago |
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Hegemonic suicide and medieval peasant brain
New York Times front pages from December 9, 1991, with headlines about the end of the Soviet Union and the death of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father; and March 1, 2026 about the start of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, and—not visible in the im...
"That devil has to follow you everywhere"—activism in Singapore
The exterior of Changi Prison Complex, Singapore. Source: CNA.
Singapore is a business-friendly, illiberal democracy, or what some political scientists call a “competitive authoritarian regime,” or a “façade electoral” system. So there’s m...
China's disastrous first president
Yuan Shikai in 1915. Image source: Wikimedia.
Yuán Shìkǎi 袁世凯 was post-imperial China’s first president. He led China’s first exploration of democracy down a dead end, and his presidency was “disastrous,” says historian James Carter in an...
The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper
A 2020 petition against changes to education policy signed by all the residents of Dalanhua Village, Chifeng Municipality, Inner Mongolia. The circular style imitates that of duguilang resistance groups in pre-revolutionary times, hiding th...
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
CIA station chief Larry Devlin at a wharf on the Congo River in the early 1960s. Digitally adjusted image; source: SF Gate.
Stuart Reid is author of The Lumumba Plot, a rip-roaring read about the CIA plan to assassinate the newly independ...
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Rhyming Chaos podcast, The China Week newsletter, founding editor of various publications about China.
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