This episode is being released on November 9th, 2021, which means it's publication day for my new book Corruptible, Who Gets Power, and How It Changes Us.

It's a book that I've worked on for the last several years, and I'm so excited for you to check it out.

In the process of writing it, I corresponded with psychopaths. I sipped wine with the daughter of a cannibalistic dictator in Paris.

I had breakfast with a yogurt kingpin in Madagascar, and I explored why so many petty tyrants dominate our communities.

From middle managers to the despots who so often rule over homeowners associations like it's their personal fiefdom.

It was the most interesting thing that I've ever worked on in my life, so I hope you'll give it a go.

And if you do buy Corruptible, you can go to my website, www.brionpcloss.com, click on Corruptible in the top right corner, fill out the short form there, and I'll send you a private link to a bonus episode of Power Corrupts, an episode that's exclusively available to those who support the show.

Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoy this episode.

Let's imagine that heaven forbid, one day you come home and your car has been stolen, straight out of your driveway.

A few years later, you're on holiday in another state, another region of your country.

And all of the sudden, there it is, right in front of you, your car hiding in plain sight.

It's just sitting there, with your old license plate, leaving no doubt as to who originally owned it, or where it came from.

You contact the police, but they just sort of shrug and tell you that the theft is now old news.

And since it happened in another jurisdiction, it's not their problem.

It's been years and years since the theft they say, let's leaping dogs lie.

You sit with this answer for a few weeks, in sense that the authorities are doing nothing whatsoever to return your stolen car.

Finally, you decide to take matters into your own hands.

In the dead of night, you sneak up to the car, pick the lock, hotwire the ignition, and drive off.

Back home to the empty parking space in your garage that it used to occupy.

It's back in its rightful spot, right back where it started.

Here's the question.

Did you commit a crime in reclaiming your own stolen property?

...