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Lex Fridman· Feb 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIf Human History Were a Thousand-Page Book, Nearly All of It Would Be BlankGuest Tim Urban · Host 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.
2:59:53ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Civil War, Jeremi Suri argues, never actually endedGuest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanA UT Austin historian tells Lex Fridman why American institutions still carry the exclusions of the 17th through 19th centuries — and why stories, not arguments, are what move people.
3:40:53ENLex Fridman· Dec 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe White Pill: See How Bad It Got, Then Keep Going AnywayGuest Michael Malice · Host 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.
2:56:02ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe FBI Never Cracked a Password the Day They Took Silk RoadGuest Chris Tarbell · Host Lex FridmanFormer agent Chris Tarbell tells Lex Fridman how a timezone setting, a Gmail address, and an undercover admin brought down Ross Ulbricht — and why the best hackers are still out there.
4:15:34ENLex Fridman· Nov 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHe defended Bush in the school paper. Then they called him the Ben Shapiro of the leftGuest Destiny · Host Lex FridmanSteven Bonnell, the live-stream debater known as Destiny, tells Lex Fridman how he thinks, how he researches, and why a carpet-cleaning job flipped his politics.
2:31:25ENLex Fridman· Nov 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Best Protection Against Evil Is Recognizing It in YourselfGuest Ben Shapiro · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Ben Shapiro about antisemitism, the collapse of democracies, Twitter, Trump and Biden, Ukraine, faith, and why being good is harder than being great.
3:05:57ENLex Fridman· Nov 2, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWomen, Life, Freedom: Why Iran's Youngest Generation Has Broken With the Islamic RepublicGuest Abbas Amanat · Host Lex FridmanYale historian Abbas Amanat traces the Mahsa Amini protests through a century of Iranian revolutions, the 1953 CIA coup, and a theocracy that had never existed before.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
2:15:36ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe War That Invented the Modern American CitizenGuest Christopher Capozzola · Host Lex FridmanMIT historian Christopher Capozzola tells Lex Fridman how World War I rewired American citizenship, surveillance, and the war machine — and why those patterns still shape elections, platforms, and foreign policy.
47:12ENLex 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.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty Points Up: Jordan Peterson on God, Tyranny, and How to LiveGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanIn a long conversation with Lex Fridman, the psychologist follows Dostoevsky's claim that beauty will save the world into God, science, power, fame, and the small work of putting a life in order.
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.
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.
1:42:06ENLex Fridman· Jun 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersJonathan Haidt: Instagram Is Not 'Generally Positive' for Teen MindsGuest Jonathan Haidt · Host Lex FridmanThe NYU social psychologist answers Mark Zuckerberg on adolescent mental health and argues that one business model rewired childhood and then the public square.
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.
3:32:24ENLex Fridman· May 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGlenn Loury Does Not Disagree With Affirmative Action. He Hates It.Guest Glenn Loury · Host Lex FridmanA three-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman on King, slavery, Black patriotism, cancel culture, IQ research, Obama, and how to wear a history without being trapped by it.
2:49:41ENLex Fridman· Mar 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersNazi Science Was Not Anti-Science. It Was Science with a Purity QuestGuest Robert Proctor · Host Lex FridmanStanford historian Robert Proctor on how ideology, tobacco, and the taxonomic impulse turn scientists into widget-builders.
2:21:49ENLex Fridman· Jan 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFocused Protection, Not Lockdowns: Jay Bhattacharya on What Public Health Got WrongGuest Jay Bhattacharya · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford physician and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration tells Lex Fridman why age-stratified risk, seroprevalence data, and the ignored costs of isolation pointed to a different COVID strategy.
3:23:42ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty will save the world — Michael Malice's New Year's case for hopeGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn New Year's Eve 2021, Lex Fridman and Michael Malice talk through Dostoevsky, evil, Austin, anarchism, and why a cheap GoBot on a Brooklyn shelf still counts as proof.
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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 64