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Lex Fridman· Jul 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Take Slavery Out of the Picture, There Is No Civil WarGuest Gary Gallagher · Host Lex FridmanIn 1860, enslaved people were worth more than every railroad and factory in the United States combined.
4:25:44ENLex Fridman· Sep 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Wehrmacht's Secret Ingredient Was MethamphetamineGuest Norman Ohler · Host 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.
3:04:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersXi Jinping Revived China's Personality Cult. He Did Not Revive Mao's Chaos.Guest Jeffrey Wasserstrom · Host 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.
3:28:19ENLex Fridman· Oct 30, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Okhrana Infiltrated Every Revolutionary Party. Then the Tsar Fell Anyway.Guest Rick Spence · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Rick Spence walks Lex Fridman through spies, cults, forged plots, and the difference between knowing and believing.
3:31:57ENLex Fridman· Sep 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Man-Made Famine, Packaged as the Science of HistoryGuest Vejas Liulevicius · Host 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.
4:57:15ENLex Fridman· Mar 14, 2024PodcastThe Same Archive, Four Meanings: Finkelstein, Morris, Rabbani and Destiny Debate Israel and PalestineHost 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.
3:20:00ENLex Fridman· Mar 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe last empire is still falling: Serhii Plokhy on Ukraine, Russia, and 1991Guest Serhii Plokhy · Host 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.
3:07:18ENLex 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.
3:42:34ENLex Fridman· Dec 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBhaskar Sunkara Will Not Call Forced Collectivization Anything but a DisasterGuest Bhaskar Sunkara · Host 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.
3:40:53ENLex 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.
2:41:09ENLex 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.
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.
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.
1:50:49ENLex Fridman· Apr 12, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersYannis Pappas on Power, Death, and Why Love Is an ActionGuest Yannis Pappas · Host 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.
3:16:29ENLex Fridman· Mar 13, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersSaagar Enjeti Thinks Washington Runs on Autopilot — and Nobody Is Playing ChessGuest Saagar Enjeti · Host Lex FridmanThe Rising co-host walks Lex Fridman through Hitler, the Oval Office, stimulus checks, conspiracy, Lenin, Shackleton, and why personnel is policy.
3:08:23ENLex Fridman· Dec 31, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersTake One Red Pill, Not the Whole BottleGuest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanMichael Malice talks with Lex Fridman about humor as a filter, the White Pill, anarchism, and how to want happiness without swallowing cynicism.
3:26:04ENLex Fridman· Nov 2, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersIf Hitler Thought He Was Helping Germany, Was Alexander Worse?Guest Dan Carlin · Host 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.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
14:49ENLex FridmanPodcastElon Musk Rates Memes and Ends Up Defending Nuclear Power, the British Museum and the CheeseburgerHost Lex FridmanIn a lighthearted excerpt from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Elon Musk scores a stack of printed memes on a one-to-eleven scale and gives serious answers whenever a joke touches a real topic.
12:01ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersThe Big Nap: Why Eric Weinstein Thinks the Pandemic Ends 75 Quiet YearsGuest The Big Nap · Host Lex FridmanIn an April 2020 conversation, Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman discuss what a global crisis reveals about collective action, fragility, and the institutions we treat as museum pieces.