Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 1h 12m
Activity Highly Active
Since Apr 2026
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
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97%
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Discussions on history, philosophy, politics, science, and civilizational questions. We're here to learn.

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S1E9 Napoleon Won

Jun 10, 2026 57m

Napoleon built the institutions of the modern state—especially the military. This was best analyzed by Napoleon's enemy Clausewitz, who studied war on the opposite side of the battlefield. Napoleon's…

Ideology Is Conspicuous Consumption

Jun 03, 2026 56m

Thorstein Veblen tells us how elites display their superiority by showing off their cultivated taste and skill, which in turn displays their economic power, and ultimately their capacity for…

S1E8 Your Life is a Hypothesis

May 27, 2026 1h 1m

The Earth has become small -- and the Last Man lives the longest.In 1885, Nietzsche foresaw mankind's transformation into a being who cares only for safety and contentment -- the final step before he…

S1E7 Machiavelli's Virtue

May 20, 2026 1h 12m

Machiavelli saw that Christianity had made Italy weak, servile, and prey to criminal men. His answer: ground politics in "what is", not imagined republics — and dare great men to act on it. The…

S1E6 The Machine Gun Killed Democracy

May 13, 2026 1h 17m

Ben Landau-Taylor discusses Carroll Quigley's thesis on how weapons systems shape political order—how military technology determines whether a society ends up democratic, authoritarian, or something…

S1E5 The War that Destroyed the Greek World

May 06, 2026 1h 25m

The Peloponnesian War destroyed the Greek world and exposed the violence behind the civilized facade, much like the World Wars of the 20th century. Maxim Dmitrienko walks us through Thucydides'…

S1E4 Why Study Greek Philosophy?

Apr 29, 2026 1h 13m

Should a student of the 21st century read Plato and Aristotle? Stephen Pimentel explains how Greek philosophy helps us to see past the conceits of our own era.

S1E3 How Civilizations Die

Apr 24, 2026 1h 14m

Carroll Quigley's 1961 book The Evolution of Civilizations describes the stages a civilization goes through as it grows, expands, decays, and falls. Ben Landau-Taylor tells us how Quigley's theory…

S1E2 Nothing Human Makes It Out of the Near Future?

Apr 16, 2026 1h 3m

DC Posch and Wolf Tivy read Meltdown from Nick Land, the prophet of 21st century artificial intelligence and runaway capitalism.

S1E1 Should I Pick My Kids' Genes?

Apr 10, 2026 1h 38m

Rachel Wallis is using cutting-edge gene selection technology to have kids. Wolf Tivy is using traditional methods. Which is better? They debate.-----------Reproductive Frontiers 2026 conference in…

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