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Lex 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.
3:19:00ENLex 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.
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.
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.
2:19:08ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHe Asked to Vanish from the Poster. The Second Time, Hollywood Did It for HimGuest Kevin Spacey · Host Lex FridmanKevin Spacey talks with Lex Fridman about Se7en, American Beauty, House of Cards, the 2017 allegations, and a father whose study held a Nazi flag.
2:51:59ENLex Fridman· Apr 13, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhat's on Your Mind: Andrew Callaghan's Gonzo Tour of the American EdgeGuest Andrew Callaghan · Host Lex FridmanThe Channel 5 host tells Lex Fridman how a three-word question, a 70-day hitchhike, and a Molotov on Lake Street turned comedy bits into a beat at the margins.
2:43:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThirty-Three Minutes He Cannot RememberGuest Bassem Youssef · Host Lex FridmanComedian Bassem Youssef tells Lex Fridman why he walked into a Piers Morgan interview he expected to lose, and what Gaza, satire, and power look like from there.
1:50:42ENLex Fridman· Apr 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe List Never Became Routine: Tulsi Gabbard on War, Power, and the Six-Minute DecisionGuest Tulsi Gabbard · Host Lex FridmanA combat veteran and former congresswoman walks Lex Fridman through Iraq’s casualty lists, the military-industrial revolving door, Ukraine, a bill that is not about TikTok, and what a president must do in six minutes.
3:04:22ENLex Fridman· Feb 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Page Memo Told Tucker Carlson Not to Interview PutinGuest Tucker Carlson · Host Lex FridmanAfter eight days in Moscow, Carlson tells Lex Fridman why he let Vladimir Putin talk, what Navalny’s death does and does not prove, and why he thinks Washington is blocking a settlement in Ukraine.
3:32:44ENLex Fridman· Feb 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWhen a Company Fails, Blame the Board: Bill Ackman on Value, Harvard, and a Journalist With a PenGuest Bill Ackman · Host Lex FridmanThe Pershing Square founder walks Lex Fridman from Benjamin Graham's Mr. Market through activist battles, campus ideology, and a looming fight with Business Insider.
1:39:02ENLex Fridman· Nov 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersMost Things Suck. The Good Ones Change Your Life.Guest Michael Malice · Host Lex FridmanOn a Thanksgiving pirate special, Michael Malice and Lex Fridman range from mantis shrimp and roast funerals to 67 shaving soaps and why cynicism is a form of giving up.
2:31:58ENLex Fridman· Sep 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersCancel culture has already outpaced the Red Scare, Greg Lukianoff arguesGuest Greg Lukianoff · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE president tells Lex Fridman why Harvard scored below zero on campus free speech, how left and right built rhetorical fortresses, and why “hate speech” remains censorship’s most successful brand.
2:14:42ENLex Fridman· Jul 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSettlers Took Half His Jerusalem House. Mohammed El-Kurd Calls It Politics, Not Real EstateGuest Mohammed El-Kurd · Host Lex FridmanThe Palestinian poet tells Lex Fridman how Sheikh Jarrah, the Nakba, and a childhood of eviction orders shape his case against treating Zionism as a religion rather than a political project.
1:11:11ENLex Fridman· Jul 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne of the Most Hated Men in the World Disagrees With the PremiseGuest Benjamin Netanyahu · Host Lex FridmanIn a compressed hour with Lex Fridman, Benjamin Netanyahu recasts hate, judicial reform, AI, and Israeli–Palestinian peace as problems of timing, balance, and sequence.
3:15:07ENLex Fridman· Jun 18, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWikipedia Worked Once Writing Stopped Feeling Like Grad SchoolGuest Jimmy Wales · Host Lex FridmanJimmy Wales tells Lex Fridman how Nupedia's seven-stage review died, why Wikipedia still refuses ads and governments, and what large language models should actually do with an encyclopedia.
3:10:04ENLex Fridman· May 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersTeachers keep getting fired for assigning Randall Kennedy's bookGuest Randall Kennedy · Host Lex FridmanHarvard law professor Randall Kennedy tells Lex Fridman why he put English's most explosive slur on a book cover — and why blanking it, he argues, erases the history it carries.
1:51:12ENLex Fridman· May 15, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey Silverglate Would Fire 95 Percent of Harvard's AdministratorsGuest Harvey Silverglate · Host Lex FridmanThe FIRE co-founder, running as a write-in for Harvard's Board of Overseers, tells Lex Fridman why hate speech is more useful than love speech and why discomfort is the price of a free campus.
3:31:03ENLex Fridman· May 6, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAsk for the Definition First: David Pakman on Labels, Trump, and a Tweet He Should Have Left UpGuest David Pakman · Host Lex FridmanThe progressive host sits with Lex Fridman for a long walk through political words, Trump versus Biden, January 6th, and why most of his own show sits at the top of the information food pyramid.
4:27:46ENLex Fridman· Mar 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHalf a Million Girls in Wells, and We Still Change the ChannelGuest Sam Harris · Host Lex FridmanSam Harris tells Lex Fridman why emotional contagion is a bad moral compass, why Trump broke norms more than laws, and why Twitter, COVID, and AGI all look like failures of seriousness.
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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 56