The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished....
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Power, freedom, and justice: rethinking Foucault
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Children of a modest star
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1h 30m
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Harvey Whitehouse, "Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Episode 94, 'The New Age of Empire' with Kehinde Andrews (Part I - The Logic of Empire)
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Episode 94, 'The New Age of Empire' with Kehinde Andrews (Part II - Further Analysis and Discussion)
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