Rhyming Chaos

Rhyming Chaos

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China's disastrous first president
What can we learn from democratically elected Yuan Shikai, who appointed himself emperor?
 • Jeremy Goldkorn
43:03
The end of a Mongolian-language newspaper
From wolf hearts to Xi Jinping thought: Journalist Soyonbo Borjgin talks about growing up in Hohhot and his “re-education” after protests against the…
 • Jeremy Goldkorn
1:07:03
The CIA plot to kill the Congolese prime minister
As the U.S. continues blowing up boats in the Caribbean, author Stuart Reid tells the history of an earlier low point of careless American meddling.
 • Jeremy Goldkorn
52:18
Trump is the symptom, not the disease
Unremembered resistance, and what we can actually learn from history to make sense of the world and its leaders in 2025, with historian and author…
 • Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova
58:05
How does a city feel when it's invaded by an occupying army?
Clarissa Ward has reported for CNN on many of the major wars of the last decade. She talks about entering Kabul as it fell to the Taliban, Syria…
 • Jeremy Goldkorn
51:31
Protest and repression in Belarus
COVID taught Belarusians to self-organize. Then they started demonstrating. Author Natalya Chernyshova discusses the protests, crackdown, and dodgy…
 • Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova
1:05:29
When will people rise up and overthrow the dictator? Not now.
Shades of authoritarianism in Central Asia, with scholar Edward Schatz.
 • Jeremy Goldkorn
53:40
Rhyming Chaos
Rhyming Chaos
A podcast about living in authoritarian times. Jeremy Goldkorn and Maria Repnikova interview people who've lived through or studied periods of upheaval or tyranny, or thrived under strongman rule.

Rhyming Chaos

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