Tag

history

147 pages

Episodes (58)

Ada Palmer on Machiavelli, The Prince, and Renaissance Statecraft

Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship

Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future

Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

Alex Wellerstein on the Atomic Bomb Decision, Truman's Accountability, and the Nuclear Taboo

Andrea Wulf on the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Invention of the Self

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Government Secrecy

Anthony Kaldellis on the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and the Rise and Fall of Empires

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal on Ferrari, Enzo's Racing Obsession, and the Luxury Brand Machine

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal on the Walt Disney Company, the Flywheel, and Monetising Nostalgia

Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe

Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth

Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality

Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society

David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States

Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism

Ed Barnhart on Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity

George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression

Gregory Aldrete on Ancient Rome, the Roman Legions, and Military History

Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating

Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy

Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities

Irving Finkel on Ancient Mesopotamia, Cuneiform, and the Ark Tablet

Jack Weatherford on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

James Holland on World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, and the Biggest Battles

Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Modern China, the CCP, and Hong Kong

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the History of Free-Market Ideas

Jessica Riskin on Lamarck, Agency in Biology, and the History of Evolution

Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time

Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World

Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth

John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism

Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era

Joseph Henrich on Cultural Evolution, WEIRD Societies, and Life Among Two Strange Tribes

Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character

Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent

Lars Brownworth on Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla, and the Viking Age

M. Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia

Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels

Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Norman Ohler on Drugs in Nazi Germany, Blitzkrieg, and the History of Psychedelics

Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together

Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference

Serhii Plokhy on Russia, Ukraine, and the History of Their Relationship

Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions

Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography

Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on Odysseus's Monsters, Greek Colonisation Anxieties, and the Slaughter of the Suitors

Vejas Liulevicius on Communism, Fascism, and the Machinery of Totalitarianism

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy

Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Yuval Noah Harari on Shared Fictions, Intelligence, and Power

Notes (14)

Anthony Kaldellis on the Roman Empire, Byzantium, and the Rise and Fall of Empires

Ed Barnhart on Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression

Gregory Aldrete on Ancient Rome, the Roman Legions, and Military History

Irving Finkel on Ancient Mesopotamia, Cuneiform, and the Ark Tablet

Jack Weatherford on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

James Holland on World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, and the Biggest Battles

Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Modern China, the CCP, and Hong Kong

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and the History of Free-Market Ideas

Lars Brownworth on Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla, and the Viking Age

Norman Ohler on Drugs in Nazi Germany, Blitzkrieg, and the History of Psychedelics

Serhii Plokhy on Russia, Ukraine, and the History of Their Relationship

Vejas Liulevicius on Communism, Fascism, and the Machinery of Totalitarianism

Yuval Noah Harari on Shared Fictions, Intelligence, and Power

Concepts (15)

Buddhist Modernism

Cuneiform

Enlightenment

Long Roman Empire

Mayan Calendar

Monarchic Republic

Monetarism

Nuclear Taboo

Objectivism

One Country, Two Systems

Pharmacology of War

Regime Uncertainty

Shared Fictions

Totalitarianism

Wahhabism

Hosts (5)

Dan Carlin

Dominic Sandbrook

Dwarkesh Patel

Tom Holland

Tyler Cowen

People (11)

Ayn Rand

Constantine the Great

Joseph Stalin

Justinian I

Mao Zedong

Milton Friedman

Nelson Mandela

Niccolò Machiavelli

Theodor Morell

Thomas More

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Books (3)

Blitzed

Utopia

Winnie and Nelson