Highway robbers of the knowledge economy

A podcast I’d never heard of before stole my work. I’m not alone.

Edited by Sam Thielman

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A year ago, after half a decade of original research and reporting in nine countries on two continents to uncover the full story of Smedley Butler and the rise of America’s empire, I knew my work wasn’t done. I asked my friend and research editor extraordinaire Rob Liguori to start assembling a tea…