Oct 15, 2026 · 50 min · 17 segments
Obviously, a secret sect doesn't control global events - despite what the internet says. But the myth of a shadowy cabal of elites grew out of a very real secret order, and one that went extinct…
Dan SnowHostSo from 1796, if you're looking back to the spring of 1789, the world has changed utterly.
And we have what looks like an atheistic, democratic, egalitarian, republic-waging ideological warfare on Europe.
In Britain itself, there is fear not only of the ideological contagion of the revolution, but they think there might also be practical consequences to it.
And the next year, there is a revolution in Ireland with the United Irishmen seeking on roughly Jacobin lines to establish their own republic.
So people begin to look around for explanations as to what the hell has gone on.
Who could possibly have affected such ghastly and awful changes in the most powerful nation in the world at that time?
So from 1796, if you're looking back to the spring of 1789, the world has changed utterly.
And we have what looks like an atheistic, democratic, egalitarian, republic-waging ideological warfare on Europe.
In Britain itself, there is fear not only of the ideological contagion of the revolution, but they think there might also be practical consequences to it.
And the next year, there is a revolution in Ireland with the United Irishmen seeking on roughly Jacobin lines to establish their own republic.
So people begin to look around for explanations as to what the hell has gone on.
Who could possibly have affected such ghastly and awful changes in the most powerful nation in the world at that time?
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