Throughline: Dare to Dissent

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, the most dangerous and powerful thing a person can do is to stand up not against their enemies, but against their friends. As the United States heads into what will likely be another bitter and divided election year, there will be more and more pressure to stand with our in-groups rather than our consciences. So a group of us here at Throughline decided to tell some of the stories of people who have stood up to that kind of pressure. Some are names we know; others we likely never will. On today's episode: what those people did, what it cost them, and why they did it anyway. EPISODE CITATIONS: Books -Defying Hitler: the White Rose Pamphlet (https://zpr.io/wAXJuTzqFBvw), by Alexandra Lloyd, fellow by special election in German at the University of Oxford. King: A Life (https://zpr.io/iGAEggJJnFNE), by Johnathan Eig. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:21.0	Hello.
0:22.0	So, so, hey, Lulu, okay, you know I studied history in grad school.
0:27.5	Yes, history of science. History of science. And I love history, and I really do think, as you know from how often I pitch history here
0:35.1	I feel like it's this like infinite source of stories that are cinematic and
0:39.5	profound and that will like make you see the whole are present in a totally different way.
0:45.0	And yet when I look at you know like the history channel or just like pop history right like you see what you see on TV or even
0:55.0	here in podcasts it's just so cartoonish and filled with like conspiracy theories about aliens and fixated on certain
1:05.8	moments in history and kind of rehashing the same thing over and over and over again.
1:09.8	It's also kind of very dull just very, it's like okay, here's another documentary about like civil war weapons or something.
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