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Latest Episode · May 6, 2026

The Gilded Liar and the City That Invented Him

Patrick Radden Keefe (investigative journalist)

Patrick Radden Keefe

There is a particular kind of hunger that London specializes in producing — not the hunger of the truly poor, but the hunger of the man who can see the feast through the window and knows, with absolute certainty, that he deserves a seat at the table. Patrick Radden Keefe came to the armchair with a story about a nineteen-year-old boy who fell from a balcony overlooking the Thames, but what he really brought was a meditation on what happens to a self when the story you tell about yourself becomes more real than the life you're actually living.

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Dax's Recurring Obsessions

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