It’s the Western left. You can’t raise the bar with the Western left without standing waist-deep in shit and bending down to pick it up.

Empire by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand has been good so far (I’m 12 episodes in). I can’t speak for subsequent episodes and don’t know anything about the two hosts beyond this podcast, but they’re painting a very stark picture of how fucking evil the British were in India (and I think they move on to other colonized regions later).

Don’t forget Kissinger is still alive.