Episode 1April 21, 2025
Easter Message 2 - Confrontation: The Book of Job
A deep exploration of the Book of Job and its confrontation with suffering, faith, and the human condition.
2:38:28
April 21, 2025
ReligionPhilosophyJobSufferingFaith
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Episode 2January 19, 2025
#24 Enemy, Prologue: Enemies of All Mankind
The prologue to a new series exploring the concept of enemies throughout history and how societies define and deal with those they consider threats.
1:41:00
January 19, 2025
EnemiesHistorySocietyPrologueHuman Nature
Episode 3March 31, 2024
Easter Message
A special Easter message reflecting on themes of sacrifice, redemption, and the human story.
49:00
March 31, 2024
EasterReligionSacrificeRedemptionMessage
Episode 4January 31, 2024
The Prodigal Sons - Nietzsche and Dostoevsky (Novitate Conference, Nov 2023)
Hi everyone. Here is a talk I gave about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky at the first inaugural Novitate Conference in Washington, DC. Novitate was created by Luke Burgis to explore and celebrate the work of French scholar René Girard. Luke is the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life. Please support the podcast by subscribing to the Martyr Made Substack for just $5 p/month, or $50 p/year.
1:26:00
January 31, 2024
PhilosophyNietzscheDostoevskyConference
Episode 5November 30, 2023
Blacks and Jews (Complete Series)
This is the audio version of a six-part essay series. Black and Jewish Americans were uniquely united until the late 1960s, when the civil rights movement was subsumed by a Third Worldist outlook that caused the Black Panthers and other activists to turn on the State of Israel, and then on American Jews. It precipitated a split in the so-called Black-Jewish alliance which had been the backbone of the civil rights movement during its glory years.
3:21:00
November 30, 2023
Civil RightsBlack-Jewish AllianceHistoryPolitics
Episode 7November 11, 2023
War All the Time: Israel vs. Palestine, 1948-82 (Bonus Episode)
This episode will cover the period from 1948 – the year of Israeli independence and the Palestinian Nakba – to the Lebanon War of 1982. It is not meant to be a thorough history of that period but is specifically about how the level of savagery escalated over the years to bring us up to where we are now.
4:21:00
November 11, 2023
IsraelPalestineMiddle EastWarHistory
Episode 8June 26, 2023
#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
The Great Migration of 1915-1960 saw over six million African Americans move from the rural South to the big cities of the North and West. This episode tells the story of the battle for control of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in New York City – one of the most intense periods of racial conflict in recent American history, which led to a split in the alliance between American blacks and American Jews.
6:41:54
June 26, 2023
American HistoryGreat MigrationCivil RightsNew York
Episode 6September 9, 2022
The Complete Jeffrey Epstein Series
I'm re-uploading all the podcasts from a new hosting service, so I thought I'd go ahead and put the full Epstein series up while I was at it. This series deals with some very dark material. It is not for listening with kids in the car or where other people can hear it at work.
5:28:00
September 9, 2022
Jeffrey EpsteinDark MaterialConspiracyCrime
Episode 9September 9, 2022
#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction
In August 1921, 10,000-20,000 armed coal miners marched on Mingo County, West Virginia. Before it was over, they would storm a mountainside under fire from entrenched machine guns, and while being bombed from the air. It was the largest and most serious armed insurrection in US history since the Civil War. This episode discusses the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars and The Battle of Blair Mountain.
5:34:35
September 9, 2022
Labor HistoryCoal MinersWest VirginiaBattle of Blair Mountain
Episode 10May 23, 2022
#21 Whose America?: Prologue
Here is the first episode – well, the prologue – for a brand new Martyr Made series called Whose America?, on the American labor wars. This is a series I've been working on for a while, and a story very close to my heart.
1:39:11
May 23, 2022
American LaborLabor WarsHistoryPrologue
Episode 11March 18, 2022
On the Front Lines w/The Eastern Border (preview)
Hey everyone. After the recent Thoughts On Ukraine episode, I thought it would be a good idea to bring someone on the show who has a different perspective. Kristaps Andrejsons is a Latvian journalist.
22:00
March 18, 2022
UkraineEastern BorderLatviaJournalismPreview
Episode 12March 14, 2022
Thoughts on Ukraine (Updated and Remastered)
Hey everybody. Many of you have asked for my thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine, so here they are. I re-recorded it because the audio was trash the first time around. Sorry about that.
2:27:00
March 14, 2022
UkraineCurrent EventsAnalysisPolitics
Episode 13August 31, 2021
#20 – The Underground Spirit
In this episode, I look through the lives and work of the two 19th century existentialist authors, Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky, who have a great deal in common, but who, in the end, couldn't be more different.
4:58:41
August 31, 2021
PhilosophyNietzscheDostoevskyExistentialism
Episode 14May 31, 2021
#19 – The Anti-Humans
With the Bolshevik takeover of Russia after the First World War, something new crawled from the depths of the earth. Never before had a government shown such uninhibited savagery toward its own people, during peacetime, as a matter of policy. After Nazi Germany was defeated, Stalin's Soviet Union unleashed hell on the devastated nations of Eastern Europe.
3:53:03
May 31, 2021
Soviet UnionStalinEastern EuropeWWIIHistory
Episode 15November 11, 2020
#18 – The Madame Butterfly Effect (bonus episode)
This is a short piece I did for Daniele's History on Fire podcast. Many of you may have already heard it, but I thought I'd put it on the main feed just in case. It was a fun break from Jim Jones, and nice to be a little less serious for once.
28:25
November 11, 2020
BonusHistory on FireCollaborationLight
Episode 16October 17, 2020
#17 – God's Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple follow the remnants of the 1970s radical left into the fire. WARNING: Extreme language and disturbing content.
7:53:49
October 17, 2020
Jim JonesPeoples TempleJonestownCultDark
Episode 17June 15, 2020
#16 – God's Socialist, pt. 6: No Driver At The Wheel
The student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party is torn apart by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Activism devolves into struggle sessions and terrorism, as the movement for civil rights and social justice is left to 'drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen.'
2:43:24
June 15, 2020
Black PanthersFBICivil RightsActivismHistory
Episode 18June 15, 2020
#15 - God's Socialist, pt. 5: The Wounded King
This episode begins where the '60s end, when the radicalism of that decade crashes headlong into the diminishing expectations of 1970s America. The Weather Underground veers off toward its explosive climax.
4:26:09
June 15, 2020
Weather Underground1970sRadicalismAmericaHistory
Episode 19February 10, 2020
#14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution
This episode discusses the beginning of Peoples' Temple's slide into radicalism after Jim Jones leads his people to California. We also talk about the development of 1960s radical political movements and Jonestown conspiracy theories.
6:35:13
February 10, 2020
Jim JonesPeoples TempleCalifornia1960sRadicalism
Episode 20June 24, 2019
#13 – God's Socialist, pt. 3: Head North, Then Turn Left
In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King, Jr to the militant Black Power soldiers of the northern ghettos.
4:00:43
June 24, 2019
Civil RightsMartin Luther KingBlack Power1960sHistory
Episode 21April 15, 2019
#12 - God's Socialist, pt. 2: What Child Is This?
Part 2 of a podcast series on Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple movement. An eccentric loner as a child, Jim Jones finds purpose in the fight for racial and economic justice.
3:17:39
April 15, 2019
Jim JonesPeoples TempleChildhoodJusticeHistory
Episode 22March 4, 2019
#11 - God's Socialist: Prologue
This is the first episode of a series exploring Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. This episode is only a prologue, a few stories and ideas to serve as a backdrop for everything to come.
1:32:26
March 4, 2019
Jim JonesPeoples TemplePrologueCultHistory
Episode 23March 8, 2018
#10 - Anything That Moves - The My Lai Massacre (w/History on Fire)
Part 2 of a series with Daniele Bolelli (History on Fire). This episode explores the context of the Cold War in order to come to terms with what happened at My Lai, in Vietnam, in 1968.
2:22:27
March 8, 2018
My LaiVietnamCold WarHistory on FireMassacre
Episode 24August 31, 2017
#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny
Human sacrifice is not a human universal. It emerges at a specific stage of human sociopolitical development. This episode explores the transition from nomadic foragers to the first states, where primitive egalitarianism was replaced by class oppression, and human sacrifice was employed to define social boundaries.
2:53:56
August 31, 2017
Human SacrificeAncient HistorySociopolitical DevelopmentTyranny
Episode 25June 27, 2017
#8 - How to Serve Man - Sacrifice & Cannibalism, pt. 1
The first part of a series on sacrifice and cannibalism.
2:43:03
June 27, 2017
SacrificeCannibalismAncient HistoryDark Material
Episode 26June 5, 2017
#7 - Approaching the Aztecs - A Drunken Introduction
An introduction to a series of companion episodes to go along with Daniele Bolelli's History on Fire series on the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
1:45:42
June 5, 2017
AztecsSpanish ConquestMexicoHistory on FireIntroduction
Episode 27December 20, 2016
#6 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Never Again
Modern Zionism began in the late 19th century; by 1939, it had transformed into a desperate play for bare survival. Young revolutionaries do combat with Zionist elder statesmen. Hitler's German Reich and Stalin's Soviet Union do battle for Europe. Our episode begins with desperate Jews in Nazi Europe and ends with the realization of the Zionist dream: a sovereign state of Israel.
5:30:08
December 20, 2016
ZionismIsraelNazi EuropeWWIIHistory
Episode 28April 16, 2016
#5 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Things Fall Apart...
Riots. Massacres. Palestinian Arabs finally find a voice in the wake of the 1929 massacres. Desperate European Jews seek escape from Nazi persecution just as Palestinian resistance stiffens and the British become skeptical of the Zionist project.
5:35:44
April 16, 2016
Palestine1929 MassacresNazi PersecutionBritishHistory
Episode 29November 23, 2015
#4 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 3
As the Middle Eastern regional order is hammered into place by the Entente powers, Zionism goes underground. Prosperity abroad and security in Palestine make the 1920s a relatively quiet period. As the real effects of the Zionist project begin to be felt, tensions rise until the decade ends as it began… in violence.
4:25:59
November 23, 2015
Middle EastZionism1920sViolenceHistory
Episode 30July 18, 2015
#3 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Nostalgia and Naivety in Honor Culture
An exploratory aside that discusses Arab tribal dynamics, honor culture, religion, and the mutual incomprehension that helped construct the Middle Eastern mousetrap a century ago.
1:44:04
July 18, 2015
Arab CultureHonor CultureReligionMiddle EastHistory
Episode 31June 19, 2015
#2 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 2
The Arabs and the Zionists in Palestine struggle to get their bearings in a ruined world after the First World War. People around the world are demanding their independence, but building a national identity takes more than just drawing lines on a map.
3:18:53
June 19, 2015
ArabsZionistsPalestineWWINational Identity
Episode 32March 19, 2015
#1 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 1
The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A group calling themselves Zionists puts out a call to awaken the oppressed Jews of Europe. The time had come, after two thousand years, to return to Palestine. But there was a problem: another people had moved into the land and had been living there for 1300 years.
2:21:06
March 19, 2015
Israeli-Palestinian ConflictZionistsEuropePalestineHistory
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