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On June 3, 1982, Palestinian terrorists shot Israel’s ambassador to England, Shlomo Argov, in London.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Angelenos nervously wondered who really ran their city: Mayor Bradley or the megalomaniac Chief of Police, Daryl Gates?
Robert Morrow • City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Essential Mike Davis)
Michael Every on the usefulness of the term "geopolitics." (The Great Simplification - Ep. 118)
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Matt Haig • The Humans
Lennon was shot dead outside his apartment building in Manhattan, New York. His killer, security guard Mark Chapman, claimed he was incensed by Lennon saying The Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus’. Lennon was a big fan of PKD’s work and during the time leading up to the shooting had been talking about making a movie of his novel The Three Stigm
... See moreAnthony Peake • A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed dread of the state—did police departments emerge in the United States.