Podcasts Culture Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything The Power of Magical Thinking (False Alarm! part vii)

The Power of Magical Thinking (False Alarm! part vii)

Published: July 11, 2018, 12:56 p.m.

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Magic! That\\u2019s what alt-right face-punchee Richard Spencer claims brought Trump to the White House. Esoteric historian Gary Lachman investigates and discovers an unholy alliance of memes, chaos, and positive thinking.

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Michael Hughes, author of Magic for the Resistance offers us some counterspells. Also the Hitler\\u2019s Magician controversy, the magician at the heart of the CIA, and the Fox Sisters take their spirit knocking to Rochester. Plus your host takes a magical ride down the Trump Tower escalator.

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2018 is not the first time truth, fiction and lies have merged together. In the 1850s people turned to the the dead for answers. In the 1930\\u2019s, Hitler and the Nazis tried to remake the world using magic and pseudoscience.

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In phase two of False Alarm! we\\u2019re going to bounce between the second half of the 19th century, the interwar years and the present to find out if we are doomed for a repeat?

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