April 27

Ep. 0256: Power Kills: Discussing Democide (w/Gregory Zink)


This DHP episode features a recent conversation between CJ & Gregory Zink, host of the true political crime podcast Smoke Filled Rooms, about an episode of SFR Greg did covering the historical phenomenon of democide.

Join CJ & Greg as they discuss “democide,” the term coined by R.J. Rummel to denote any and all instances of governments deliberately killing their own citizens on a large scale.

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February 27

Ep. 0253: “Academia is a Racket”: 13 Problems with Conventional Academia

From segments recorded during multiple drives, CJ pieced together his first Silver Bullet episode in over 6 months (and his longest Silver Bullet episode ever), in which he goes over in detail 13 of his biggest complaints about academia, based on his observations & experience from having been a student in it for 6 years & a teacher in it for 16 years.

Join CJ as he discusses the following problems with modern conventional academia:

  1. No real market feedback mechanism to indicate whether a “good education” is being provided.
  2. Overspecialization.
  3. Rigid credentialism.
  4. Too many courses online (especially at the intro/gen-ed level.)
  5. Excessive disability accommodations.
  6. Private-sector profiteering (off a captive audience & cartelized, non-competitive system.)
  7. Administrative bloat.
  8. A focus on arbitrary metrics that can be juked/gamed.
  9. Degree inflation.
  10. The accreditation agencies functioning as a cartel enforcer to artificially restrict entry & reduce competition.
  11. Ideology baked into most (if not all) disciplines, in many cases for over a century.
  12. The adversarial relationship often automatically created between student & teacher.
  13. State & corporate influence & control.

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October 19

Ep. 0243: Two Cheers for Classical Republicanism (Fun-Size DHP)


CJ took a brief break from slaving away at the next Woodrow Wilson episode to make this Fun-Size DHP episode, talking about a political idea known as ‘classical republicanism,’ which has been on his mind a lot lately, & which he has always found to be interesting & potentially useful. (Think of this as a ‘silver bullet’ DHP episode, just minus the silver bullet & with concurrently better audio quality, because CJ no longer commutes daily an hour each way, so he recorded this one at the home studio. But it’s like a silver bullet episode in that it’s relatively short & is mostly off-the-cuff, with minimal notes.)

Join CJ as he discusses what ‘classical republicanism’ is, some historical manifestations of it in theory & in practice, & some of the ways it differs from modern ‘republics,’ ‘democracies,’ or (heaven forbid) ‘democratic republics.’

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December 15

Ep. 0229: The Dirty Baker’s Dozen, Part 1


Harkening back to a DHP series on important concepts & theories from 5 years ago, CJ decided to put together another such series for 2021, this time zeroing in on 13 concepts & theories that have been on display in a big way since the beginning of Covid Madness (and all that has come along with it) in spring of 2020. This first episode in the series will cover the first 4 concepts & theories.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • Crisis & Leviathan
  • Tacit Collusion (or ‘SIgnalling’)
  • Libido Dominandi
  • Doublethink

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March 18

Ep. 0219: Gray Champions


Join CJ as he:

Reviews the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory (which was covered in much greater detail way back in 2017 on DHP Episode #140),

  • Explains the concept of the ‘gray champion’ who emerges to lead during a crisis
  • Compares & contrasts Ron Paul and Joe Biden as Gray Champions
  • And concludes with a reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Gray Champion”

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November 19

Ep. 0214: A Civil-Religious Civil War?

Is the USA currently in the early stages of sectarian conflict over its civil religion?

In this episode of the DHP, CJ rebroadcasts his 2016 Election Special on America’s Civil Religion (in order to review the concept of civil religion & its manifestation in the United States); this is followed by new material, reflecting on how CJ’s understanding of the American civil religion has changed somewhat since 2016. He then goes on to compare and contrast the current political conflicts in the US to the Protestant Reformation in 16th and 17th century Europe, as well as the pietist-vs-liturgical split in American Christianity in the 19th century, before wrapping up with some humble observations and suggestions for people who are (like CJ) nonbelievers in any civil religion & who want to weather the current conflicts as best they can.

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The Dangerous History Podcast is a member of the Recorded History Podcast Network, the Dark Myths Podcast Collective & LRN.fm’s podcast roster.

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Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry Stout

The Cult of the Presidency, Updated: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power by Gene Healy

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition by Norman Cohn

The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster by Anthony Arthur

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson

The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century (DVD)

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June 23

Ep. 0205: Divide & Conquer, Divide & Rule


Join CJ as he discusses various historical instances of elites using strategies of ‘divide and rule’ and ‘divide and conquer’ in order to take over, rule, and exploit groups of people that vastly outnumber the elites.

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The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics)by Julius Caesar

American Slavery, American Freedomby Edmund Morgan

Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914  by H.L. Wesseling

The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People by Kenneth Porter

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April 10

Ep. 0200: Honest History

For the 200th episode of the Dangerous History Podcast, CJ decided to take a step back and get a bit ‘meta,’ taking a journey into the belly of the whale on trying to figure out what history is and how one might think about it.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • What history really is
  • Fact, Truth, & Meaning
  • Objectivity, Ideology, & History
  • Honest History

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That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick

Empiricism and History by Stephen Davies

Telling the Truth About History (Norton Paperback) by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob

 

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January 19

Ep. 0195: The Manichean Temptation

Here’s something we haven’t seen in a while — a ‘Silver Bullet DHP Episode’ (ie, one in which CJ records a mostly-extemporaneous discussion of a concept from his mobile podcasting studio, the Silver Bullet, while commuting.) Kicking it Old School DHP on this one!

Join CJ on a couple of morning commutes to work for a freewheeling discussion on the Manichean Temptation, some of its dangers and problems, some real-world manifestations of the phenomenon, and related issues like the problem with ‘extremists’ (as CJ defines them here), and the need to think not just about ends, but also about means, as well as some brief info on the ways that cults exploit the Manichean Temptation to the extreme.

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Combating Cult Mind Control: The 1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults by Steven Hassan

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November 7

Ep. 0172: The Voluntary Difference (What CJ said at Harvard)

This episode contains CJ’s presentation from the Sound Education podcast conference held at the Divinity School of Harvard University in November, 2018.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The differences he’s noticed (for both teacher & learner) between a conventional classroom setting on the one hand, and podcasting on the other
  • His belief that these differences are largely due to the fact that a typical classroom setting is less voluntary and revolves around extrinsic motivations, whereas something like podcasting is purely voluntary (for both teacher & learner) and revolves around intrinsic motivations, and why the latter is superior in most important ways to the former

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  • “Teacher Liberation” (an excellent Ted Talk by Joel Hammon that also addresses some of the ways in which voluntary educational relationships are superior to nonvoluntary ones, for both teachers and students)
  • A Ted Talk by Daniel Pink, author of Drive

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