Join us on ReReadium as we sail into Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, where young Jim Hawkins battles cunning pirates and buried greed on a treacherous quest. This timeless adventure mirrors today's corporate buccaneers chasing digital fortunes amid global rivalries—just swap the doubloons for crypto and the high seas for cyber waves. Tune in for thrilling analysis that uncovers why this classic still maps our modern moral compasses!

Additional sources for this episode:

• https://booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/reimagining-robert-louis-stevensons-treasure-island/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/magazine/treasure-island-robert-louis-stevenson-book.html
• https://literariness.org/2025/05/21/analysis-of-robert-louis-stevensons-treasure-island/
• https://lbibinders.org/treasure-island-book/
• https://professorramos.blog/2019/07/30/treasure-islands-impact-on-society-literacy-and-pop-culture/
• Writing of Piracy in English Sea Literary Classics, Tingwei Zhang, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

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"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold": a novel that feels like it was written for our world, not just the Cold War’s. In this episode, we dive into John le Carré’s masterpiece of moral ambiguity, where spies don’t save the day—they survive it. We untangle the book’s brutal realism and ask: how closely does today’s shadow‑game of disinformation, proxy wars, and cynical calculations mirror the East–West chessboard of the 1960s? From social‑media‑driven polarization to the quiet compromises of “national security,” this is a story that never really came in from the cold.

Additional sources for this episode:

• https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/12/the-spy-thriller-as-a-geopolitical-lens
• https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/72235/john-le-carre-adaptations-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-david-eldridge
• https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/may/21/russia-ukraine-cold-war-strategies-says-john-le-carre-son-nick-harkaway
• https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/lessons-todays-cold-war-20-russia-china
• https://foreignperspectives.net/p/2025-in-review
• https://www.crimesreads.com/60-years-le-carre-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold/
• https://www.audible.com/blog/summary-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-by-john-le-carre
• https://www.scribd.com/document/962751043/The-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-John-Le-Carre
• https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12749&context=etd
• https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold/themes

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Step into Plato’s "The Republic" as it asks a question that still won’t let go of us: what is justice, and what kind of city – and soul – does it take to live well? In this ReReadium episode, we follow Socrates through imagined cities, philosopher‑kings, and censored stories to explore how his ancient worries about democracy, inequality, and bad leadership echo in an age of algorithms, strongmen, and “fake news.”

Additional sources for this episode:

• https://www.planksip.org/platos-critique-of-democracy-and-its-modern-implications/
• https://complexsystems.org/publications/platos-republic-a-21st-century-makeover/
• https://explaininghistory.org/2025/08/28/what-plato-can-teach-us-about-the-crises-of-the-21st-century/
• https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol25/iss3/2/
• https://www.insightfultake.com/details/unlocking-the-relevance-of-platos-republic-in-the-modern-world
• https://philarchive.org/archive/EUGPCO

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