ShowEpisode 33
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Thinkers Across Time
When Machiavelli Meets Confucius: The Leader’s Dilemma
Can you be both good and effective? Imagining debates that never happened, with thinkers worlds apart.
Imagine historical luminaries from different eras engaging in weekly, imagined debates on topics they never got to discuss, all narrated by a philosopher who believes the best conversations are the ones that never actually happened.
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