Part One: Ancient Genocide and the War on Carthage

Robert and Joe Kassabian discuss the prehistoric roots of genocide and then Rome's genocide of Carthage. FOOTNOTES: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-brutal-massacre-may-be-earliest-evidence-war-180957884/  https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24132230-200-story-of-most-murderous-people-of-all-time-revealed-in-ancient-dna/#ixzz7TZjHsHoi  https://www.pnas.org/content/116/22/10705  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03773-6  https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1113150/stone-age-genocide-prehistoric-invaders-yamnaya-corded-ware-europe https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/first_genocide.pdf  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2633002420904283  https://www.worldhistory.org/article/485/genocide-in-the-ancient-world/  https://twitter.com/alizaluft/status/1526436238579728384  https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1177/0032329207308181  https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/129/4/1947/1853091?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false  https://items.ssrc.org/insights/dehumanization-and-the-normalization-of-violence-its-not-what-you-think/  https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7591/9780801467158/html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.