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Rags: The Pure-Hearted Mutt of the Great War
Dogs have been man’s best friend for millennia, so it stands to reason that man’s best friend will follow man into the depths of hell, that is, war. …
3 years, 2 months ago
The First Woke President
In this newest episode of History Impossible, I was joined by my friend, comrade, and frequent collaborator CJ Killmer, host of the Dangerous History…
3 years, 2 months ago
Pandemic: A Plague Coda
While there is plenty to say about how a pandemic affects us while we’re in the middle of it, there is just as much, if not more, to say about how a …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Fictions of History
Hello everyone. This is an audio version of the essay I wrote for the History Impossible Substack (as well as here!) called "The Fiction(s) of Histor…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Blonde Conspiracy feat. Greg Zink (An Impossible Interview VII)
In this newest History Impossible conversation, I’m speaking with Greg Zink, the host of the Smoke Filled Rooms podcast, a new and up-and-coming show…
3 years, 6 months ago
Stakeholder Nazism (An Impossible Polemic)
Happy 2023, everybody. I hope everyone's 2022 was a good one. It's hard to believe we're really getting into this new decade often portrayed as "the …
3 years, 6 months ago
The Birth of the Lexicon, Part II: The American Lunatic (Infinitesimal Impossibilities 04)
In this second part of our story about the birth of the Oxford English Dictionary, we cover the second half--perhaps the second hemisphere, to use a …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Birth of the Lexicon, Part I: The Scottish Polymath (Infinitesimal Impossibilities 04)
If ever there was a story whose subject was small but whose effect was immense--i.e., the central theme of Infinitesimal Impossibilities--this would …
3 years, 7 months ago
Ken Burns' Water-Carrying Failure
Hey everybody. This is the first of hopefully many audio versions of the essays/analyses I write for the History Impossible Substack. This one is goi…
3 years, 8 months ago
A Third Reich Bildungsroman
NOTE: Please stick through the intro. There's an important announcement.
WARNING: This episode contains the use of offensive racial epithets and distu…
3 years, 8 months ago