Tyranny in Rome and Fake Drugs in Fiction

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Yascha Mounk discusses Edward J. Watts's "Mortal Republic," and Jonathan Lethem talks about the surge of fictional psychotropic drugs in novels.

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0:00.0	What can we learn today about the fall of room?
0:08.8	Yashamonk will be here to talk about Edward Watts book, Mortal Republic.
0:13.9	Why are so many novelists these days turning to fictional drugs?
0:17.6	Jonathan Leithen will be here to discuss.
0:20.0	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world,
0:22.8	plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.
0:26.0	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:28.7	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:38.7	Yashamonk joins us now.
0:40.1	He is the author of the People vs Democracy.
0:43.2	Why our freedom is in danger and how to save it.
0:45.9	We'll talk about that a little bit.
0:47.5	But he also reviews this week a book by Edward J. Watts called Mortal Republic.
0:53.2	How Rome fell into tyranny.
0:55.2	Yasham, thanks for being here.
0:56.4	My pleasure.
0:57.1	So the last time we met was in Athens.
0:59.6	I feel like we have this classical history thing going on.
1:02.6	Oh, I guess it's true.
1:03.5	Yeah, we went straight from the Athenian democracy to the Roman Republic.
1:07.0	That's right.
1:08.0	All right.
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