Majd Al-Waheidi edited the digital story. Reena Advani edited the audio version of the interview. But here, these men had gotten on the island, the supposed apostles of Western civilization, and they had descended into this Hobbesian state of depravity. Wager The New Yorker staff writer discusses his new book, The Wager, about the harrowing circumstances and conflicting stories surrounding a 1741. It liked to claim that its civilization was somehow superior to others. Sometimes mutinies can be so threatening to the state because what it may show about the system and in this case, this very mutiny held up a light, shined a light on the evil of imperialism and the lie that lay at the heart of the British Empire's justification for somehow conquering other people. On how a shipwreck and trial challenged the British Empire And so there are those in power who have a vested interest in preferring this all to go away. It makes their officers look more like brutes and like gentlemen. And what happened on Wager Island makes the British Empire look scandalous. Look for Me There by Luke Russert (Harper Horizon) 8.

Serenity in the Storm by Kayleigh Mcenany (Liberatio Protocol) 6. What this story really shows is how nations also shape and manipulate and edit their stories to serve their own self-interest. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (Crown) 5. Not only were each individual of the survivors trying to shape their stories and tell their stories to serve their own self-interest. On storytelling as a tool of national manipulation It felt like a parable for our own turbulent modern times. And so I had for me the story that took place in the 18th century.

And there's also war over who would get to tell the history and efforts by those in power to cover up the scandalous truth and the sins of the nation's past. On the resemblance to contemporary events

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