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3:46:18ENIf You Take Slavery Out of the Picture, There Is No Civil WarGast: Gary Gallagher · Moderation: Lex FridmanIn 1860, enslaved people were worth more than every railroad and factory in the United States combined.
4:25:44ENThe Wehrmacht's Secret Ingredient Was MethamphetamineGast: Norman Ohler · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Norman Ohler tells Lex Fridman how Pervitin, Hitler's doctor, and LSD change the story of World War II without turning drugs into a single cause.
3:04:01ENXi Jinping Revived China's Personality Cult. He Did Not Revive Mao's Chaos.Gast: Jeffrey Wasserstrom · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Confucius, Tiananmen, censorship, the 2025 trade war, Hong Kong's warning to Taiwan, and why history has no straight road.
3:28:19ENThe Okhrana Infiltrated Every Revolutionary Party. Then the Tsar Fell Anyway.Gast: Rick Spence · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Rick Spence walks Lex Fridman through spies, cults, forged plots, and the difference between knowing and believing.
3:31:57ENA Man-Made Famine, Packaged as the Science of HistoryGast: Vejas Liulevicius · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Vejas Liulevicius walks Lex Fridman from Marx to Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Putin — arguing that a doctrine which claimed scientific certainty made mass death feel like a duty.
4:57:15ENThe Same Archive, Four Meanings: Finkelstein, Morris, Rabbani and Destiny Debate Israel and PalestineModeration: Lex FridmanA nearly five-hour Lex Fridman debate in which four opposed voices argue over 1948, October 7, Gaza, and whether any peace is still possible.
3:20:00ENThe last empire is still falling: Serhii Plokhy on Ukraine, Russia, and 1991Gast: Serhii Plokhy · Moderation: Lex FridmanHarvard historian Serhii Plokhy tells Lex Fridman why the war in Ukraine is the unfinished collapse of the Russian Empire — not a sudden break with history.
3:07:18ENIf Human History Were a Thousand-Page Book, Nearly All of It Would Be BlankGast: Tim Urban · Moderation: Lex FridmanTim Urban walks Lex Fridman through a self-help book for societies, from a gratitude dial in every head to the movements that hijack liberal institutions.
3:42:34ENBhaskar Sunkara Will Not Call Forced Collectivization Anything but a DisasterGast: Bhaskar Sunkara · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Jacobin founder and Nation president tells Lex Fridman that democratic socialism starts by refusing the No True Scotsman defense of the twentieth century.
3:40:53ENThe White Pill: See How Bad It Got, Then Keep Going AnywayGast: Michael Malice · Moderation: Lex FridmanOn a Lex Fridman Christmas special, Michael Malice talks through The White Pill — why 19th-century socialism looked scientific and humane, why violence sings its own song, and why cynics who call themselves realists are lying.
2:41:09ENPutin inherited Stalin’s rooms, not Stalin’s powerGast: Stephen Kotkin · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Stephen Kotkin tells Lex Fridman why the war in Ukraine is a strategic choice born of Russian weakness, resentment, and a West that kept letting Moscow get away with murder.
2:18:40ENIt Was Not a Slippery Slope. It Was a Leap.Gast: Norman Naimark · Moderation: Lex FridmanStanford historian Norman Naimark on Stalin, Mao, the Holodomor, and why the flame of human kindness is so easy to put out.
2:42:47ENThe Invasion Was a MistakeGast: Robert Crews · Moderation: Lex FridmanStanford historian Robert Crews on why Afghanistan was never the center of 9/11, what Bin Laden actually wrote, and how four presidents stayed on the highway until the tank ran dry.
1:50:49ENYannis Pappas on Power, Death, and Why Love Is an ActionGast: Yannis Pappas · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe comedian and History Hyenas co-host talks with Lex Fridman about mortality, con men, the Battle of Crete, and the hard currency of being stubbornly yourself.
3:16:29ENSaagar Enjeti Thinks Washington Runs on Autopilot — and Nobody Is Playing ChessGast: Saagar Enjeti · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe Rising co-host walks Lex Fridman through Hitler, the Oval Office, stimulus checks, conspiracy, Lenin, Shackleton, and why personnel is policy.
3:08:23ENTake One Red Pill, Not the Whole BottleGast: Michael Malice · Moderation: Lex FridmanMichael Malice talks with Lex Fridman about humor as a filter, the White Pill, anarchism, and how to want happiness without swallowing cynicism.
3:26:04ENIf Hitler Thought He Was Helping Germany, Was Alexander Worse?Gast: Dan Carlin · Moderation: Lex FridmanHardcore History host Dan Carlin talks with Lex Fridman about motives, force, strongmen, and why he would rather throw six weeks of tape away than ship something mediocre.









