The 48 Laws of Power

<p>In 1996, a frustrated screenwriter got a fellowship in Italy. Twenty years later, Beyoncé released &quot;Lemonade.&quot; <br/><br/>Content warning: This episode includes a mention of suicide.</p><p><a href='https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod'><b>Support us on Patreon</b></a><b>:<br/></b><a href='https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod'><b>https://www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod</b></a><b><br/><br/>Where to find us: </b></p><ul><li><a href='https://twitter.com/IfBooksPod'>Twitter</a></li><li><a href='https://www.fivefourpod.com/'>Peter&apos;s other podcast, 5-4</a></li><li><a href='https://www.maintenancephase.com/'>Mike&apos;s other podcast, Maintenance Phase</a></li></ul><p><b>Sources:</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070/a-paradise-built-in-hell-by-rebecca-solnit/'>Rebecca Solnit’s “A Paradise Built in Hell”</a></li><li><a href='https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704687/white-cat-black-dog-by-kelly-link/'>Kelly Link&apos;s &quot;White Cat, Black Dog&quot;</a></li><li><a href='https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-half-century-in-bullshit-on-peter-bogdanovichs-paper-moon-and-robert-greenes-the-48-laws-of-power/'>The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power”</a></li><li><a href='https://archive.org/details/bookofanecdotes0000dani'>A Book of Anecdotes, 1957</a><br/><a href='https://archive.org/details/littlebrownbooko00fadi'>The Little Brown Book Of Anecdotes</a></li><li><a href='https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007766.2010.537902'>Fear Nothing: Self-Fashioning and Social Mobility in 50 Cent’s The 50th Law</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22849-y#:~:text=The%20fear%20of%20conflict%20leads,zero%2Dsum%20situations%20%7C%20Scientific%20Reports'>The fear of conflict leads people to systematically avoid potentially valuable zero-sum situations</a></li><li><a href='https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-4537.00220'>The Immigration Dilemma</a></li><li><a href='