The masonic history series is a little less sarcastic and cynical. Taken from my own research, this episode explores the evidence linking Boston's Lodge of St. Andrew's Freemasons Lodge with the Boston Tea Party, the event that ultimately sparked the American Revolution.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed for centuries that the Freemasons planned the Boston Tea Party - in this case, they might just be right.

For more on this topic, check out my book, Freemasonry in the Revolutionary Atlantic World.

The masonic history series is a little less sarcastic and cynical. Taken from my own research, this episode explores the very close connections between colonial American Freemasons and the radical Sons of Liberty who led the American Revolutionary. Was the Revolution a Masonic conspiracy? No. Did Masonic conspiracies alter the course of the American Revolution? It sure seems like it.

Forget communism and capitalism, Russia's real economy is all about alcoholism! For centuries, the biggest source of government revenue in Russia has been selling the hard stuff to it's own people. Learn all about why keeping your peasants drunk for 500 years isn't the best way to keep your economy afloat.

This episode is one of the more fun and entertaining ones!