Dylan and Kassia unpack Stefan Zweig's Chess Story translated from German by Joel Rotenberg. They toy with some chess pieces, discuss the psychological effects of fascism, and heap praise on this thrilling novella.
References:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Milgram experiment
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It by Arthur Herman
Marquis de Wavrin
One Way Passage
History Is Made at Night
Let Them All Talk
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
The Stars Down to Earth by Theodor Adorno
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