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Lex Fridman· Aug 31, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin’s invasion is a supreme crime, Chomsky says — and so was America’s in IraqGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanIn a short remote interview, Noam Chomsky applies one standard to NATO expansion, Western propaganda, and a US-China war he thinks organized human life would not survive.
3:33:04ENLex Fridman· Aug 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAfrica's Poverty Is Made of Laws, Not of PeopleGuest Magatte Wade · Host Lex FridmanSenegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade tells Lex Fridman how tariffs, Napoleonic codes, and a Cold War wrong turn keep the world's youngest continent poor.
3:53:09ENLex Fridman· Aug 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe CIA Serves One Customer, and That Customer Is the PresidentGuest Andrew Bustamante · Host Lex FridmanFormer covert officer Andrew Bustamante walks Lex Fridman through how American intelligence actually works — from the President's Daily Brief to Ukraine, Snowden, and a bar wall in Alabama.
3:37:34ENLex Fridman· Jul 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe KGB taught Jack Barsky to vanish. His daughter taught him to stay.Guest Jack Barsky · Host Lex FridmanA former illegal resident tells Lex Fridman how East German ambition, tradecraft, and an 18-month-old in Queens undid a life built on other people's names.
1:41:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't take in the opinion of the worldGuest Joe Rogan · Host Lex FridmanJoe Rogan talks with Lex Fridman about surviving a media pile-on, why Kill Tony exists, and why he wants UFOs to be real too badly to trust himself on them.
2:38:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Will Not Have the Landscape ClearedGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanDouglas Murray tells Lex Fridman that a campaign to empty the West of its heroes leaves only the 20th century’s unlearned idea still standing.
2:53:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWho Gets the Surplus? Richard Wolff on What Marxism Actually MeasuresGuest Richard Wolff · Host Lex FridmanA Marxist economist tells Lex Fridman why Marx wrote almost nothing about communism, why the Soviet Union never counted as socialism, and why American democracy still stops at the factory door.
2:41:09ENLex Fridman· May 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin inherited Stalin’s rooms, not Stalin’s powerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host 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.
1:52:39ENLex Fridman· May 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy Is Not Sympathy: Oliver Stone on Putin and the War in UkraineGuest Oliver Stone · Host Lex FridmanThe filmmaker argues that nuclear power is safer than its reputation, that the Ukraine war did not begin on February 24, and that understanding a leader is not the same as excusing him.
2:29:08ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersStarvation Is a Weapon. Skye Fitzgerald Still Puts the Camera Down.Guest Skye Fitzgerald · Host Lex FridmanNearly 811 million people are hungry today, and 45 million stand at the edge of famine across 43 countries — while the food to feed them already exists.
3:56:54ENLex Fridman· Apr 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen You Inflate Money at 7% and Call It 2%, You Are Bleeding the PatientGuest Michael Saylor · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor argues that inflation is a vector, economics deserves a failing grade, and Bitcoin is the first ethical block of digital energy.
2:48:27ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMost Rivals Loathe Each Other in PeaceGuest Chris Blattman · Host Lex FridmanUniversity of Chicago economist Chris Blattman tells Lex Fridman why prolonged violence is rare, costly, and usually a bargaining failure — recorded in the fifth week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
2:01:35ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA no-click iPhone exploit sold for $2.5 million. Silence was the only condition.Guest Nicole Perlroth · Host Lex FridmanNicole Perlroth tells Lex Fridman how zero-days, ransomware, and a privately owned power grid turned curiosity into everyday cyberwar.
1:32:38ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersRay Dalio’s Big Cycle: Empires Fall When They Get Rich, Indebted, and at War With ThemselvesGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio about the 500-year rise and fall of reserve-currency empires, the U.S.–China contest, and the personal recipes that outlast any cycle.
2:18:40ENLex Fridman· Dec 13, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersIt Was Not a Slippery Slope. It Was a Leap.Guest Norman Naimark · Host Lex FridmanStanford historian Norman Naimark on Stalin, Mao, the Holodomor, and why the flame of human kindness is so easy to put out.
4:55:09ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersJamie Metzl Puts the Lab-Leak Odds at 85 PercentGuest Jamie Metzl · Host Lex FridmanThe genetic-engineering author walks Lex Fridman through the circumstantial case for a Wuhan accident, the cover-up he says is no longer debatable, and why the next pandemic will be decided by transparency, not blame.
2:42:47ENLex Fridman· Nov 28, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Invasion Was a MistakeGuest Robert Crews · Host 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.
2:41:13ENLex Fridman· Nov 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Minefield Used to Be the Point: Niall Ferguson on Universities, Money, and 1914Guest Niall Ferguson · Host Lex FridmanThe historian tells Lex Fridman why he is founding a university in Austin, why money is a technology of trust, and which cabinet decision turned a European war into the twentieth century.
2:33:37ENLex Fridman· Oct 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsGuest Alex Gladstein · Host Lex FridmanThe Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategist argues that money was missing from the human-rights conversation, and that Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that turns greed into a tool for individual sovereignty.
4:06:06ENLex Fridman· Oct 14, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersShe Picked Up a Perfectly Laced Boot and Said They Could Reuse ItGuest Kelsi Sheren · Host Lex FridmanKelsi Sheren was a 19-year-old, 103-pound Canadian artillery gunner on an M777 howitzer in Afghanistan; she came home with the light switch off and spent a decade finding a way back.
2:37:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 15, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersEmma Goldman Told Lenin the Revolution Was Already WrongGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanMichael Malice talks with Lex Fridman about totalitarianism, quiet heroism, and why anarchism is a relationship rather than a place.
2:00:48ENLex Fridman· Jun 30, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNorth Korea Banned the Word for Famine. Yeonmi Park Still Says It.Guest Yeonmi Park · Host Lex FridmanA North Korean defector tells Lex Fridman how a regime hides hunger, how Animal Farm explained her country, and why she hears echoes of that silence in American life.
2:08:47ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersLincoln Made Politics an Art. The Modern Presidency Made It a Superpower.Guest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jeremi Suri talks with Lex Fridman about Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kissinger, and why power in a republic is meant to be held only in trust.
2:09:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 10, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA 700-year clock and a trembling hand: Tyler Cowen’s war on mediocrityGuest Tyler Cowen · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast, the George Mason economist treats nuclear war as a Poisson process, then spends two hours arguing that growth is back, weirdos built America, and rank-20 universities are the real police of conformity.Load moreShowing 24 of 82