Ep. 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...
View ArticleEp. 0054: Three Leftist Historians Every Libertarian Should Read
Join Prof CJ as he discusses the lives and work of the great 20th century leftist/revisionist American historians William Appleman Williams, Gabriel Kolko, and Howard Zinn. While Prof CJ doesn’t agree...
View ArticleEp. 0055: Save Yourself
Join Prof CJ as he discusses historical examples of people saving themselves, such as: The story of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, a group of Greek mercenaries who were left stranded in the heart of...
View ArticleEp. 0056: Fun with Fascism!
This is not a historical narrative of any particular fascist regime or regimes. Instead, it’s an exploration of what fascism — arguably the most slippery of modern “isms” to define — really is. Join...
View ArticleEp. 0057: Banksters & Control Freaks
Two distinct groups of people — banksters and control freaks — between them account for most, if not all, of the evil in the world in the past, present, and presumably (and unfortunately) for the...
View ArticleEp. 0058: The American Revolution, Part I: 1763-1774
Since this April is the 240th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Prof CJ has decided to do a multi-part Dangerous History Podcast series on this conflict, trying to focus as...
View ArticleEp. 0059: The American Revolution Part II: 1775
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Some thoughts on Great Man historical narratives An overview of what was happening in terms of rising tensions in late-1774 and early-1775, much of which related to...
View ArticleEp. 0060: The American Revolution Part III: 1776-1777
Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Thomas Paine & Common Sense The British evacuation of Boston The Declaration of Independence An overview of some of the military operations and battles of 1776-7,...
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