Curated history collection
Art, ritual, story, and faith reveal how people understood their place in the world. This collection explores cultural life as something practiced and contested, not merely displayed in museums.
Listen to histories of religion, philosophy, music, literature, architecture, myth, and everyday custom, told through the people and communities who gave them meaning.
3 documentaries
10 min documentary
Why does Japanese still use Chinese characters alongside two homegrown syllabaries? The answer begins with Buddhist texts and court politics, then winds through women’s literature, schoolroom reform, and the surprising survival of an apparently impossible system.
10 min documentary
What happens when courts, police, money, and even citizenship become things people can buy? Anarcho-capitalist thought produced stranger consequences than a stateless society: private-law experiments, encrypted communication, cryptocurrency, and a recurring problem its champions never quite solved.
10 min documentary
A peasant in fourteenth-century England could lose grain, labor, rent, and church dues before ever seeing a coin—yet the modern American tax bill may still be larger. The answer depends on whether “tax” means money paid to government, or everything extracted from a household’s survival.
