Ep. 0001: Intro to Prof CJ’s Dangerous History Podcast
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Who is Prof CJ? The pluses and minuses of working in academia The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of the Dangerous History Podcast Applying the guerrilla mindset to things other than...
View ArticleEp. 0002: Prof CJ’s Approach to History, Part I
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Some interesting/important quotes that relate to his approach His personal intellectual journey Why Prof CJ is disappointed with most mainstream history Using Cynical...
View ArticleEp. 0003: Prof CJ’s Approach to History, Part II
Ep. 0003: Prof CJ’s Approach to History, Part II Join Prof CJ as he discusses: More detail on his Iron Triangle of Money, Power & Violence
View ArticleEp. 0004: The Fall of Rome and its Aftermath
Ah, yes, a big, grand, sweeping overview of several centuries for our first historical narrative/analysis podcast! (This one starts in the car and continues at the home office, so the audio quality...
View ArticleEp. 0005: Fall of Rome Follow-Up
Normally, this show will be Mondays & Thursdays, but here’s a half-size-or-slightly-less follow up to yesterday’s episode on the Fall of Rome & its Aftermath, with a little more elaboration on...
View ArticleEp. 0006 The “Large Policy”
How did the United States go from being a country that, in the words of then-Secretary of State (and future President) John Quincy Adams in 1821, “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” to...
View ArticleEp. 0007: The Spanish-American War
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: How tensions between the US and Spain over Cuba escalated in 1898, giving the Large Policy clique (covered in our last episode) the opportunity they’d been waiting for...
View ArticleEp. 0008: The Philippines War, Part I
I started off intending this to be a single episode, but after working on it for only a short while, I realized it was going to take two to get through everything I wanted to say about this war. This...
View ArticleEp. 0009: The Philippines War, Part II
Here it is — part II of Prof CJ’s take on the American war against the Filipinos. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: How Americans had little to no sympathy for Filipinos The ‘pacification’ of the island of...
View ArticleEp. 0010: The Myth of Reagan
Ah, the Gipper! He reversed (or at least significantly slowed) the growth of the post-New Deal/Great Society Leviathan federal government in the US, right? I mean, he sure did take a rhetorical ax to...
View ArticleEp. 0011: DHP Hero: Karl Hess
From time to time, I’m going to cover some people I see as Heroes and Villains. These will be individuals whom I find very intriguing (and therefore think/hope you’ll find them intriguing as well),...
View ArticleEp. 0012: American Progressivism (c. 1890s-1920)
Here we’re going to dig into the beliefs of the original American Progressives (c. 1890s-1920), and we’ll see that they’re a bit different (and more troubling, if you happen to support things like...
View ArticleEp. 0013: Artifacts of American Progressivism
Those early American Progressives we talked about last time left the United States with a lot of physical and cultural artifacts that seem omnipresent through to today. Many things that Americans take...
View ArticleEp. 0014: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire
Join Prof. C.J. as he discusses: The proximate causes of the fall of the Soviet Empire, i.e., the long term/inherent problems of communism as an economic system, which are the incentive problem &...
View ArticleEp. 0015: The Age of Classical Liberalism in Europe
The episode following this one (ie, Ep. 0016, due out Monday the 28th) will begin a multi-part series on the First World War. So I figured it would be a good idea to give an overview of what Europe...
View ArticleEp. 0016: The First World War, part 1
Since World War I officially began 100 years ago today (that is, July 28th 1914), I decided it would be an opportune time to kick off a multi-part series on this conflict. (As of right now, I’m not...
View ArticleEp. 0017: The First World War, Part 2
We continue our coverage of the unnecessary, freedom- and life-obliterating carnage-fest that was First World War. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: The truth about the Lusitania Propaganda, especially...
View ArticleEp. 0018: The First World War, Part 3: Enter Team America
In this episode, I’m primarily going to cover the effects of entering the war on the United States. Long story short, it was not a good time for civil liberties or the Bill of Rights… Join Prof CJ as...
View ArticleEp. 0019: The First World War, Part 4 (A Very-Not-Happy Ending)
With this episode, we wrap up our overview of WWI and the incalculable damage it did to the world. I’ll likely cover other topics related to this war in the future, but this four-part series is my...
View ArticleEp. 0020: Esoteric vs. Exoteric
Having made it through World War I in the past four episodes, today we take a break from historical narrative-type podcasts to do something a little different. From time to time, I want to talk about...
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