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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March 30

Ep. 0199: 36 Documentary Films to Watch During TEOTWAWKI, Part 1

Now that we all have a LOT more time to watch streaming videos than we normally would, CJ thought it would be helpful to put out a list of three dozen interesting documentary films that he highly recommends for the DHP audience’s viewing pleasure. This will be done in 3 parts, with a dozen films each. (Parts 1 & 2 will be available to gen-pop, but part 3 will be for supporters of the DHP on Patreon & Subscribestar.) This is the first installment.

Join CJ as he discusses a recent personal anecdote that begins terribly but ends on a positive note, and then discusses the following documentary films:

  • The Search for General Tso (2014)
  • Beer Wars (2009)
  • Who Took Johnny (2016)
  • Meru (2015)
  • Valley Uprising (2014)
  • The Wrecking Crew (2008)
  • Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead (2015)
  • Chuck Norris versus Communism (2015)
  • Milius (2013)
  • Kumare (2012)
  • The Seven Five (2014)
  • Birth of the Living Dead (2012)

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Beer Wars

Who Took Johnny

Meru

Valley Uprising

Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

Chuck Norris vs Communism

Milius

Kumare

Birth of the Living Dead

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb

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March 21

Bonus Ep. 25: Poems of Resilience

Just published, exclusively for supporters of the DHP at $5/month or more: the 25th Dangerous History Podcast Bonus Episode!

In these troubling times, CJ decided to record a short episode sharing 5 of his favorite poems from the late-19th and early-20th century about overcoming adversity.

Not currently a supporter of the DHP? Sign up to support the show at $5/month or more via Patreon or Subscribestar and get access to this episode, as well as the other bonus episodes and lots of other perks depending on your level of support!

 

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March 9

Ep. 0198: Fµ©!≤ Daylight Savings! (The DHP vs DST)

Subtitle: “Daylight Savings as a Rebellion Against Nature.”

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • Where the idea of biannual time changes & Daylight Savings Time (DST) came from historically. (Hint: As is often the case, Woodrow Wilson bears some of the blame.)
  • Some of the problems, costs, and even dangers of DST
  • The origin of standardized time zones (which originated more in the private sector) as a contrasting case study
  • The idea of DST as a rebellion against nature

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  • A recent NBC News article on the controversy surrounding the time change (Note how, among opponents of the time change, the politicians favor year-round DST, while actual scientists & medical people support year-round Standard Time — why, it’s almost like politicians don’t give a shit about science or human health & well-being when it goes against what they want!)
  • Save Standard Time (a website & organization dedicated to making Standard Time year-round for the sake of human well-being)

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Revolution in time: Clocks and the making of the modern world by David Landes

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February 26

Ep. 0197: DHP Villains: Woodrow Wilson, Part 4

In this fourth installment in the epic DHP Villains Woodrow Wilson series, we’re detail-stripping what CJ considers to be perhaps the single most important piece of writing in Woodrow Wilson’s career, the essay “The Study of Administration,” which was published in the July 1887 issue of Political Science Quarterly, when Wilson was only 30 years old and just 2 years into his professional academic career. Wilson never significantly deviated from the ideas laid down in this essay over the remainder of his academic career; he also did quite a lot of implement them as President of the United States, and one can see the influence of these ideas on the growth & development of the US government’s administrative apparatus ever since. (Though the real-world results have been far from the ideal of benevolence, efficiency, and transparency that Wilson described!)

Join CJ as he takes this essay apart with critical analysis, and, near the end, shares the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville who, writing approximately 50 years before Wilson wrote “The Study of Administration,” identified and warned about just the sort of mixture of democracy and bureaucratic despotism that men like Wilson would eventually advocate & usher in.

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Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (American Intellectual Culture) by Ronald J. Pestritto

Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings: The Essential Political Writings edited by Ronald J. Pestritto

Propaganda by Edward Bernays

Public Opinion (Critical Assessment of Functional Democratic Government) by Walter Lipmann

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky

Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II (Bantam Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville

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February 15

Ep. 0196: Agents Unknown w/John Murphy & Michael Reiter

In this DHP episode, CJ is joined by John Murphy and Michael Reiter, who are, respectively, the star and director of the extremely interesting documentary film Agents Unknown: A Vietnam War Intelligence Officer’s Story, which tells the story of John’s experience as a military intelligence officer in the Vietnam War.

Join CJ, John, & Mike as they discuss John’s experiences in Vietnam and reflections on them, as well as the making of the film and the takeaways to be gleaned from it.

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Links & Info for the School Sucks Virtual Summit, coming March 7, 14 & 21 2020

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Agents Unknown

Some Agents Unknown Pics

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