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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

Links

• 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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