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Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock\u2019s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren)\xa0joins us to talk about Hitchcock\u2019s long\xa0take masterpiece/gimmick Rope.\xa0Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their\xa0\xdcbermensch status.\xa0Did they read Nietzsche correctly?\xa0Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line?\xa0Are professors accountable for what they teach?\xa0(Please God, no.)\xa0Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark\u2019s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of \u201cDoes the government deem this trademark scandalous?\u201d\xa0\xa0

• Yoel Inbar [yoelinbar.net]
• Very Bad Wizards\xa0Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness\xa0[verybadwizards.com]
• Rope [IMDB.com]
• Leopold and Loeb\xa0[wikipedia.org]
• Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The Leopold and Loeb Trial Page (UMKC Law)
• Paul Gauguin\xa0[wikipedia.org]
• The Moon and Sixpence by W.\xa0Somerset Maugham\xa0[wikipedia.org]
• Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy\xa0[plato.stanford.edu]
• Damasio, A.\xa0"Remembering When," Scientific American, 2002.\xa0[antonellapavese.com]
• What's the matter with a little brother sister action? by Tamler Sommers [psychologytoday.com]

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