Hey everyone. After the recent Thoughts On Ukraine episode, I thought it would be a good idea to bring someone on the show who has a different perspective. Kristaps Andrejsons is a Latvian journalist,

Hey everybody. Many of you have asked for my thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine, so here they are. I re-recorded it because the audio was trash the first time around. Sorry about that. This is the kind

There's a quote always attributed to Winston Churchill - falsely, I think? - that goes something like, "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by 30, you have n

History is replete with examples of leaders, nations, and empires who left a trail of blood behind them. But with the Bolshevik takeover of Russia after the First World War, something new crawled from

This is a short piece I did for Daniele's History on Fire podcast. Many of you may have already heard it, but I thought I'd put it on the main feed just in case. It was a fun break from Jim Jones, and

Jim Jones and Peoples Temple follow the remnants of the 1970s radical left into the fire. - WARNING: Extreme language and disturbing content. - Thank you to www.campuspress.com for sponsoring this ser

This was originally intended to be part of the previous episode, but I decided to break them up. - Warning: EXTREME LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENT - The student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party

This episode begins where the '60s end, when the radicalism of that decade crash headlong into the diminishing expectations of 1970s America. The Weather Underground veers off toward its explosive cli

In this episode, we discuss the beginning of Peoples' Temple's slide into radicalism, the emergence of the New Left from the old student movement, Jonestown conspiracy theories, and more.

In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King, Jr to the militant Black Power soldiers of the northe...