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Feb 2025
32m 18s

The Gulag Archipelago

Erik Rostad
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I’m digging into the podcast vault and taking us back to December 2019 when I first released this episode. In the past 5 years, I’ve thought about The Gulag Archipelago often. I’ve seen it referenced in other books and think its ideas can heal our current divides.



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