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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How Dictators Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There are many types of dictators, from so called "benevolent" ones to the kind who rule with an iron fist. There are also many ways they can come into power, and they don't all include violence. Learn all about dictators past and present in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like Easy Listening, but for fiction.

0:08.0

If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.

0:16.0

I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy.

0:20.0

Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.

0:24.0

Listen, relax, enjoy.

0:27.0

Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much,

0:29.0

on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:32.0

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.0

Walter Isaacson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted

0:40.8

to chaos and conspiracy.

0:42.3

I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.

0:49.0

The book launched a thousand hot takes, so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.

0:53.6

I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on musk as I should be are always

0:58.2

using anecdotes from my book to show why we should be tough on musk.

1:02.0

Join me Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson.

1:06.0

Listen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:10.0

Hey everybody, it's me Josh, and for this select I've chosen our 2017 episode on

1:17.4

dictators how much the world can change in just a few years we mentioned a couple of times in this episode that

1:24.2

authoritarianism was on the wane and that it was being replaced by good old democracy.

1:29.2

I'm saddened to report that has changed in recent years as authoritarianism has come

1:34.3

barreling back and in some surprising places. Listen to this episode to find out why

1:39.3

that's a bad thing.

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