Hi everyone, Harry here. Normally, I'd be coming to you with another one-on-one conversation today,

but things are working a little differently this week. We wanted to get you my conversation with Carol Lenig and Aaron Davis,

on their certain to be bestseller on the Department of Justice, injustice on the very first day

of its publication. The book is a rich and meticulously researched account of the turbulent ordeals at DOJ over the last seven years.

If you haven't listened yet, I hope you'll check it out.

It's the first conversation Carol and Aaron taped on the book, and it's wide-ranging and I think very insightful.

But not to leave you empty-handed this Thursday,

instead we have a really special offering.

Today, we're sharing another podcast and not just any other podcast.

Rather, it is the first episode in the new season

of Malcolm Gladwell's Blockbuster podcast series

revisionist history, which focuses in Malcolm's signature style on overlooked and misunderstood episodes

in American history. This season is entitled The Alabama Murders, and it tells the story of Charles

Senate, an Alabama Church of Christ Minister, who, while having an affair, arranged for three

men to murder his wife.

One of the men convicted in the murder, Kenny Smith, spent decades on death row only for his

execution to go horribly wrong. The series isn't about just this one case, though. It's about how

the systems we've created to bring fairness and justice too often only uphold an illusion of those values and instead

result in legal, moral, and institutional failures. As I think you'll see, the Alabama murders

is a simple but searing critique of cruelty in America, and I think you'll find it both compelling and discomforting.

To hear the full story, go to Revisionist History,

available wherever you get your podcasts.

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