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Fantasyland

9 min read 12 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A provocative history of America's love affair with fantasy, from Puritan zealots to P.T. Barnum to Trump, showing how make-believe became a national addiction that now threatens reality itself.

You’ll learn

  • America was founded on fantasy as much as reason
  • How mass media commercialized make-believe
  • The 1960s counterculture as Fantasyland's culmination
  • Why the right built a parallel reality