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The fear is a thing that metastasizes, narrowing lives and forcing bad decisions.
When wielded with purpose and persistence, that fear inspires enemies to defeat themselves.
The most interesting, and perhaps challenging, thing aboutCaliphateis its structure.
The podcasts choice to layer the three narratives on top of each other is an intriguing one.
For a moment, the thing youre listening to feels very muchalive.
And then, almost as quickly as the story twists, the narrative switches focus to the next setpiece.
The thread dangles, unnervingly, for a long time.
A lot of the early meetings were like, We have a lot of stories that we can tell.
We needed to pick one ambitious thing and really lean into it.
That is, into something effable?
Then again, how can it?
