Ep. 0034: The Iron Law of Oligarchy
Why do organizations, even ostensibly democratic ones, often seem to be less-than-democratic in practice? The Iron Law of Oligarchy is the answer! Join Prof CJ as he discusses: A little bit about...
View ArticleEp. 0035: A History of the US Dollar Part 4: Rise and Fall of Bretton Woods
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: The Bretton Woods system, set up in 1944 as the framework for the international monetary order The roots of the Great Inflation (c. mid-1960s-early-1980s) that would end...
View ArticleEp. 0036: ‘Merica Does Mengele Part 1: Radiation Experiments
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: The Nuremberg Code, and its relevance to these experiments The first experiments carried out by Manhattan Project doctors between 1945 and 1947, including one on a...
View ArticleEp. 0037: ‘Kill the Messenger’: A Dangerous History Movie Review
Warning: Spoilers! (Assuming you don’t already know about Gary Webb’s story, and the story he broke.) Kill the Messenger is a 2014 movie about Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb, who authored...
View ArticleEp. 0038: ‘Merica Does Mengele Part 2: CIA Mind Control Experiments
Here we have another batch of experiments by the US government, many of which were illegally/unethically conducted on subjects who hadn’t given anything resembling informed consent. This time, we’re...
View ArticleEp. 0039: Intro to Revisionism
Here’s a guerrilla episode done from my rolling mobile studio (ie, car) on my way to go spend a day corrupting young minds at the institution where I work. As a result, this is a bit more...
View ArticleEp. 0040: Alexis de Tocqueville & Prof CJ on Democratic Despotism
No, this isn’t an interview — but it’s not that far off, either. Prof CJ reads excerpts one of his favorite sections of Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America, and also gives some of his own take on...
View ArticleEp. 0041: COINTELPRO
From 1954 to 1971, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI ran a “Counterintelligence Program” (“Cointelpro”) that targeted such diverse people as communists, civil rights activists, antiwar groups, black power leaders,...
View ArticleEp. 0042: Thanksgiving Special: Merrymount (A Pilgrim Story They Didn’t Tell...
Thought the Pilgrims came to Plymouth because they valued freedom? Think again. The only freedom they valued was the freedom to conform to their rules and beliefs. Prof CJ tells the story of the...
View ArticleEp. 0043: “Knowledge Is Power”— Not Just a Cliche
Or if you prefer the Latin: “Scientia potentia est.” Either way, there’s more depth to the old cliche than there might appear at first glance. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Some of the earliest known...
View ArticleEp. 0044: DHP Villains: “Colonel” Edward M. House
This is the story of Edward Mandell House, the top henchman to Woodrow Wilson (in Prof CJ’s opinion a strong contender for Worst President Ever.) House initially served as a go-between between Woodrow...
View ArticleEp. 0045: Philip Dru, Administrator
Philip Dru, Administrator: A Tale of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is an attempted novel written by “Colonel” Edward Mandell House in 1912. It’s a book few have read (with good reason), but many have...
View ArticleEp. 0046: ‘The Strong Do What They Can…”
…and the weak suffer what they must.’ Here’s a look at how Athens was warped by the Peloponnesian War against Sparta in the 400s BC, using two of the most famous sections of Thucydides’ History of the...
View ArticleEp. 0047: It’s 2015 – So where’s my hoverboard???
Not to mention my flying car, my Mr. Fusion (to power my flying car with garbage), and some of the other future technologies depicted in the 2015 of the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II. (I admit...
View ArticleEp. 0048: Introduction to Taoism & the Scholar Warrior Ideal
And also Prof CJ’s modern adaptation of the ideal: The Guerrilla Scholar Warrior — a possible way to make yourself freer in this not-so-free world of ours. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: The basics of...
View ArticleEp. 0049: Historical Lies By Omission
Telling untrue facts often doesn’t work effectively as a propaganda technique, because it’s relatively easy for people to fact-check you (especially in these crazy times of smartphones & Google.)...
View ArticleEp. 0050: Accessory After the Fact: Operation Paperclip
After World War II, the US government acted as an accessory after the fact to some of the Nazis’ war crimes by getting war criminals (with valuable expertise, of course!) off the hook, bleaching their...
View ArticleEp. 0051: Accessory Before the Fact: Operation Keelhaul
Operation Keelhaul, which Alexander Solzhenitsyn called “the last secret of World War II,” was the forced repatriation of anti-Communist Russian and Eastern Europeans into Stalin’s clutches in the...
View ArticleEp. 0052: A History of the US Dollar Part 5: Ticking Timebomb of the Petrodollar
Finally, we conclude our non-consecutive series on the history of the history of the US dollar with part 5, looking at the story of the dollar following the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system....
View ArticleEp. 0053: DHP Villains: William Stephenson
William Stephenson, codenamed “Intrepid” (at least according to some sources), was an Anglo-Canadian businessman and intelligence agent who operated illegally and unconstitutionally in the US with the...
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