Podcasts · The David McWilliams Podcast
Spain Won Again, 500 Years Later
· 41 min · S2026 E59
Episode Spain Won Again, 500 Years Later
Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in a scrappy, dirty World Cup final, in what felt like 500 years of history playing out on a pitch in New Jersey. We use the final as an excuse to ask the big question: why did Spain's colonies end up poor and England's end up rich? Silver, slavery, the Inquisition, and the invisible thread that still connects a Buenos Aires slum to a New Jersey kitchen.
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