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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.
3:51:47ENForty-Six Percent of Emperors Were Overthrown. The Empire Lasted AnywayGast: Anthony Kaldellis · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Anthony Kaldellis walks Lex Fridman through 2,200 years of Roman history and argues that what we call Byzantium was Rome itself.
1:49:29ENChina Is Not Run by One Person. It Is a Mayor EconomyGast: Keyu Jin · Moderation: Lex FridmanEconomist Keyu Jin on local GDP races, DeepSeek, tariffs, Jack Ma, and why Western collapse forecasts keep missing the country they describe.
4:30:02ENGenghis Khan Never Fought a Battle He Thought He Could LoseGast: Jack Weatherford · Moderation: Lex FridmanAnthropologist Jack Weatherford tells Lex Fridman how an abandoned boy on the Mongolian steppe built the largest contiguous empire in history—and why conquest is only part of the story.
4:05:15ENThey could not agree whether Iran was building a bomb. They still wanted the same next move.Moderation: Lex FridmanAfter the Iran-Israel ceasefire, Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz spend four hours on Lex Fridman arguing over enrichment math, a stolen archive, and whether bombing Fordo makes a weapon more likely or less.
3:24:36ENA tank man came home and could not stayGast: James Holland · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian James Holland tells Lex Fridman why World War II was an ideological war of factories, letters, and logistics — and why Germany could not win it.
2:19:08ENOliver Anthony sang the pain of working America, then refused the machineGast: Oliver Anthony · Moderation: Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits with the Virginia singer-songwriter whose carport hit became a working-class anthem, and who still treats fame as a test of integrity rather than a prize.
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.
3:19:00ENTen Minus Two Equals TwentyGast: Dave Smith · Moderation: Lex FridmanComedian and libertarian Dave Smith tells Lex Fridman that American wars keep manufacturing enemies, that Gaza and Ukraine follow the same arithmetic, and that long conversations broke the old monopoly on selling war.
3:09:05ENFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGast: Douglas Murray · Moderation: Lex FridmanWatching the Oval Office blowup from an eastern-front bunker, the author of *On Democracies and Death Cults* talks Putin, Zelenskyy, Hamas, Netanyahu, and the people who say they love death more than life.
3:15:17ENDemocrats still think politics runs on money. It runs on attention.Moderation: Lex FridmanEzra Klein and Derek Thompson tell Lex Fridman why the left keeps authorizing billions it cannot build, and why DOGE is a fight over control rather than efficiency.
3:17:34ENIndia will see eye to eye: Narendra Modi on fasting, democracy, and peaceGast: Narendra Modi · Moderation: Lex FridmanAfter forty-five hours on water, Lex Fridman sits down with India's prime minister for a three-hour conversation on poverty, faith, war, and what holds a civilization together.
3:45:44ENDecline Is a Choice: Marc Andreessen on Power, Censorship, and a Second Roaring TwentiesGast: Marc Andreessen · Moderation: Lex FridmanThe United States is adding a trillion dollars of national debt every 100 days — and Andreessen says the boom is still there if the country wants it.
3:54:13ENFriedman Followed the Data. Rand Started From Axioms. Both Defended Capitalism.Gast: Jennifer Burns · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Jennifer Burns tells Lex Fridman how Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand reached individualism by opposite roads, and why freedom—not desert—became Friedman’s ethic.
3:06:39ENZelenskyy Refused to Speak Russian. Then He Explained Why a Pause Is Not PeaceGast: Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Moderation: Lex FridmanUkraine's president tells Lex Fridman why language, NATO, and leverage all come back to a ceasefire that already failed.
3:35:06ENThe 18-year-old who cannot remember America without TrumpGast: Saagar Enjeti · Moderation: Lex FridmanSaagar Enjeti tells Lex Fridman why 2024 realigned the country along a college degree, and why MAGA is a rejection of cultural elitism rather than a policy program.
1:57:09ENThe Difference Between a Madman and a Genius Is SuccessGast: Javier Milei · Moderation: Lex FridmanArgentina's president tells Lex Fridman how a libertarian economist tried to stop hyperinflation without becoming, in his words, a liberal fool.
57:45ENThe last thing a totalitarian state can take is love — a reread of Orwell’s 1984Moderation: Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks back through Oceania’s machinery of Newspeak, Doublethink, and Room 101, and argues that hate-fueled rebellion is not a way out.
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.
1:02:32ENThe More Important the Issue, the Less Anyone Discusses ItModeration: Lex FridmanBernie Sanders tells Lex Fridman why drug lobbyists, campaign cash, and a healthcare system built for profit keep the biggest American problems off the table.
2:23:05ENWeak Men Aren't Good. They're Just WeakGast: Jordan Peterson · Moderation: Lex FridmanJordan Peterson returns to Lex Fridman's podcast for a two-hour walk from Nietzsche's aphorisms through power, God, envy, psychopathy, and three years of pain that reset every night.
2:40:25ENThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGast: Vivek Ramaswamy · Moderation: Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the biotech founder and former Republican presidential candidate argues for a 75 percent cut in the federal workforce, a creedal American identity, and a Ukraine deal aimed at peeling Russia away from China.
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.
3:42:21ENRome Always Raised Another ArmyGast: Gregory Aldrete · Moderation: Lex FridmanHistorian Gregory Aldrete tells Lex Fridman how a city of mud huts absorbed the Mediterranean, survived Hannibal, and then tore itself apart over the spoils.
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