HoL Episode 31: Secret Societies!

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We thought we were done with conspiracies and conspiracy theories – but that was before we heard more about Justice Scalia’s bizarre final days. What hold do secret societies have over our imagination? Why do people join them? And what are we to make of those who do? Jacke Wilson takes another dive into the rabbit hole of mystery, intrigue, and the crazy world of a four-hundred-year-old secret society.

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Zen and the Art of Statutory Interpretation

Q: When is a document not a document?
A: When it’s a fish.

Tang Dynasty master answering a student’s question in 800 A.D.?

Nope.

Supreme Court case being considered in 2014.