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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.
3:51:47ENLex Fridman· Jun 30, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersForty-Six Percent of Emperors Were Overthrown. The Empire Lasted AnywayGuest Anthony Kaldellis · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Anthony Kaldellis walks Lex Fridman through 2,200 years of Roman history and argues that what we call Byzantium was Rome itself.
1:49:29ENLex Fridman· Aug 13, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersChina Is Not Run by One Person. It Is a Mayor EconomyGuest Keyu Jin · Host Lex FridmanEconomist Keyu Jin on local GDP races, DeepSeek, tariffs, Jack Ma, and why Western collapse forecasts keep missing the country they describe.
4:30:02ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersGenghis Khan Never Fought a Battle He Thought He Could LoseGuest Jack Weatherford · Host 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.
4:05:15ENLex Fridman· Jun 26, 2025PodcastThey could not agree whether Iran was building a bomb. They still wanted the same next move.Host 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.
3:24:36ENLex Fridman· May 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA tank man came home and could not stayGuest James Holland · Host 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.
2:19:08ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOliver Anthony sang the pain of working America, then refused the machineGuest Oliver Anthony · Host 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.
3:04:01ENLex 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.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 13, 2025PodcastChina, Japan, and Korea fought only one war in six centuriesHost Nathan LabenzFrom 1200 to 1800, East Asia’s great powers stayed at peace while Europe fought almost without pause — and David C. Kang argues that history still shapes how Asia lives with China.
3:19:00ENLex Fridman· Apr 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTen Minus Two Equals TwentyGuest Dave Smith · Host 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.
3:09:05ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGuest Douglas Murray · Host 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.
3:15:17ENLex Fridman· Mar 26, 2025PodcastDemocrats still think politics runs on money. It runs on attention.Host 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.
3:17:34ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIndia will see eye to eye: Narendra Modi on fasting, democracy, and peaceGuest Narendra Modi · Host 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.
3:45:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 26, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDecline Is a Choice: Marc Andreessen on Power, Censorship, and a Second Roaring TwentiesGuest Marc Andreessen · Host 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.
3:54:13ENLex Fridman· Jan 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFriedman Followed the Data. Rand Started From Axioms. Both Defended Capitalism.Guest Jennifer Burns · Host 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.
3:06:39ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersZelenskyy Refused to Speak Russian. Then He Explained Why a Pause Is Not PeaceGuest Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Host Lex FridmanUkraine's president tells Lex Fridman why language, NATO, and leverage all come back to a ceasefire that already failed.
3:35:06ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe 18-year-old who cannot remember America without TrumpGuest Saagar Enjeti · Host 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.
1:57:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Difference Between a Madman and a Genius Is SuccessGuest Javier Milei · Host Lex FridmanArgentina's president tells Lex Fridman how a libertarian economist tried to stop hyperinflation without becoming, in his words, a liberal fool.
57:45ENLex Fridman· Nov 1, 2024PodcastThe last thing a totalitarian state can take is love — a reread of Orwell’s 1984Host 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.
3:28:19ENLex 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.
1:02:32ENLex Fridman· Oct 23, 2024PodcastThe More Important the Issue, the Less Anyone Discusses ItHost 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.
2:23:05ENLex Fridman· Oct 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWeak Men Aren't Good. They're Just WeakGuest Jordan Peterson · Host 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.
2:40:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGuest Vivek Ramaswamy · Host 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.
3:31:57ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 117