Podcast Episodes

The Soviet Who Saved the World (w/ The Eastern Border)

In this special conversational episode of History Impossible, we’re joined again by friend of the show and friend of mine, Kristaps Andrejsons of The Eastern Border podcast (which will also host this…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Question

Hey all, I hope you’re doing well.

I have for all of you the audio adaptation of the essay I wrote last year in response to my seeing the magisterial Oppenheimer, and given its newly Oscar-anointed st…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Closing the Holocaust Knowledge Gap

Hey everyone. The following is an ad-free bonus audio essay that follows up on the recent conversation I had with the History Underground's J.D. Huitt, where I make some corrections and then provide …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

The Holocaust Knowledge Gap w/ The History Underground

In this newest special installment of History Impossible, we’re joined by long-time friend of the podcast and friend of mine, J.D. Huitt, the man behind the incredible History Underground channel ove…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The Perfect Tie: The Election of 1876 (w/ Richard Lim of This American President)

“I scarcely ever passed a week under such depression of spirits. […] It is terrible to see the extent to which all classes go in their determination to win. Conscience offers no restraint; nothing is…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Balkan Inferno: The Bosnian Dream

Season 2 Episode 3

Sometimes, the best way to understand everything a people have gone through is to understand a dream.

This is how many nations frame themselves and their own origins. No matter the context, there is a…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Pogroms and Students

Hey everybody. Now that I’ve finished up the notes and script for the conclusion of the “Balkan Inferno” trilogy (which will lead us right back into the thick of the “Muslim Nazis” series), I’m hard …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

The Greatest Blunder in Palestinian History w/ Oren Kessler

The recent Substack post and episode of History Impossible about the significant three root historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has largely been well-received. What I didn’t expect …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Israel, Gaza, and Three Root Causes

When you talk about history for a living, the contemporary world often has opportunities to make your knowledge more relevant. What knowledge actually possessed here about Israel and Palestine is lik…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Affirmative Action and the Making of a Token

This is a bonus episode (a bit bigger than one might expect) that adapts and, more importantly expands, an essay I wrote for my friend and editor Jamie on his American Dreaming Substack. I seriously …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago