August 27

Ep. 0168: Mark Thornton on Red Tide & Skyscrapers


In this DHP episode, CJ talks to economist Mark Thornton. Mark is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. He serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. His publications include The Economics of Prohibition (1991), Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (2004), The Quotable Mises (2005), The Bastiat Collection (2007), An Essay on Economic Theory (2010), The Bastiat Reader (2014), and his latest, The Skyscraper Curse and How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Crisis of the Last Century (2018).

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August 17

Ep. 0167: Endgame: The Not-So-Civil War Part 13

In the Spring of 1865, the Confederate military & government began to rapidly crumble.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The Battle of Natural Bridge
  • The fate of John Bell Hood’s command, including the disastrous Battles of Franklin & Nashville
  • The Confederates’ partial emancipation program, passed far too late to matter to the course of the war
  • The Hampton Roads Conference
  • Sherman’s march through South Carolina, including the destruction of Columbia
  • Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, probably his second-most quoted speech after the Gettysburg Address
  • The fall of Richmond
  • The surrender of R.E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House
  • The assassination of Lincoln
  • The surrender of other Confederate forces
  • Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, the last Confederate Army commander to surrender
  • The capture of Jefferson Davis
  • The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution
  • President Andrew Johnson’s declaration of ‘mission accomplished’ in 1866
  • A very brief word on Reconstruction

And be sure to tune in next time for an in-depth examination of different interpretations of the legacy & meaning of this war!

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July 27

Ep. 0166: Suppressing Dissent & Reinforcing Belief: The Not-So-Civil War Part 12

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • A brief word on the concept of habeas corpus
  • The ways in which dissent was suppressed & civil liberties were abrogated in the Confederacy and in the Union
  • Civil religion in both the North & South in the latter part of the war

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July 6

Ep. 0165: History of Vikings with Noah Tetzner


In this episode, CJ speaks with Noah Tetzner of the History of Vikings Podcast (a show that is, like the Dangerous History Podcast, a member of the Recorded History Podcast Network.)

Join CJ & Noah as they discuss:

  • Noah’s background, including his non-typical education & how he came to be hosting a podcast about Vikings at just 17 years of age
  • Common misconceptions in the popular mind about the Norse people
  • Depictions of Norsemen in popular entertainment
  • Culture, politics, society, and mythology of the Norse

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June 28

Ep. 0163: Avoiding Intellectual Inbreeding

Here is the audio of CJ’s presentation delivered on Sunday, June 24th, 2018, at the 6th Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest in Michigan.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • A little bit about his own personality and educational background that have led him to be more resistant to intellectual inbreeding than most people (but still prone to it to some extent, because all people are)
  • One of the main problems with conventional academia, and how, if you insulate yourself too much from ideas that contradict your own, you are in danger of becoming like academia in terms of being insulated & isolated from diverse ideas
  • Some of the problems that come from becoming intellectually inbred, including excessive confirmation bias
  • Some of the benefits gained from being eclectic & omnivorous in the intellectual content that you consume
  • Suggestions for ways to try to minimize confirmation bias & avoid intellectual inbreeding
  • Some very interesting Q&A

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June 19

Ep. 0162: A Modern-Day Grunt’s Perspective, Part 4

This is the final conversation between CJ & US Army Veteran BT about BT’s military service and his ordeals since getting out. (Please excuse a little bit of minor audio issues. As you’ll hear, we had some sporadic  Skype hiccups, as well as a slightly-longer-than-usual delay, probably because BT has moved since our last conversation, and is now living a little more in the boonies than previously.)

Join CJ & BT as they discuss:

  • BT’s physical & mental health issues since leaving the Army, and the problems he’s had in trying to get adequate help from the Department of Veterans Affairs (or VA)
  • PTSD
  • Head trauma
  • Burn pits & Gulf War illness
  • How BT’s experience in the Army and dealing with the VA have changed his views on many things, and his overall take on his military experience

Wanna meet CJ and ? Come out to the 2018 Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest in Delton, Michigan! CJ will be there from Friday, June 22nd through Monday, June 25th, and will be speaking on Sunday, June 24th. Hope to see you there!

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June 12

Ep. 0161: “Disregarding the Laws of God and Man”: The Not-So-Civil War, Part 11

The end (of this non-consecutive series) is starting to come into sight, as the Union increasingly relies on ‘total war’ to completely crush the spirit of resistance among Southern civilians, regardless of any moral considerations.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • Confederate General Jubal Early’s raid into Union territory, which reached the outer defenses of Washington D.C. before being fought off and chased back into the Shenandoah Valley
  • Philip Sheridan’s decisive defeat of Early’s forces, and Sheridan’s subsequent destruction of the farms, food, and infrastructure of the valley
  • The Atlanta campaign, which saw Union General William T. Sherman facing off against the Army of Tennessee, initially commanded by Confederate General Joseph Johnston
  • Jefferson Davis’s replacement of Johnston with John Bell Hood, and the disastrously costly offensives Hood launched Union forces that outnumbered his by over 2:1
  • Sherman’s shelling of Atlanta & ultimate seizure of the city, followed by the removal of remaining civilian residents
  • Sherman’s increasingly large-scale, deliberate targeting of civilians’ shelter & means of subsistence in “total war”
  • The 1864 presidential election, in which Lincoln was reelected, ensuring that the war would continue
  • Sherman’s burning of the remnants of Atlanta and “March to the Sea” across Georgia

Wanna meet CJ and ? Come out to the 2018 Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest in Delton, Michigan! CJ will be there from Friday, June 22nd through Monday, June 25th, and will be speaking on Sunday, June 24th. Hope to see you there!

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April 28

Ep. 0160: “Remember the Maine!” & The Pageantry of American Aggression

Here’s a big beast of a DHP episode, dealing with the Deep History of the sinking of the USS Maine, the origins of the Spanish-American War, and what relevance this story might have to recent events.

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana in 1898
  • A brief description of the so-called “Large Policy” and its proponents in the late-19th century, especially its most influential members: Theodore Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The so-called “Yellow Press,” as exemplified by William Randolph Hearst & Joseph Pulitzer, and how they were working toward similar goals as the Large Policy cabal (namely, war), for their own reasons
  • TR’s appointment to the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and how he used that position for all it was worth (and more)
  • Increasing tensions between the US and Spain, leading up to President McKinley’s dispatch of the Maine to Havana, where of course, it would blow up & sink
  • How proponents of war (the Large Policy cabal & the Yellow Press) hastily jumped to conclusions on virtually no evidence that Spain was behind the sinking, and the official Sampson Board of Inquiry that concluded the ship was sunk by a mine (albeit without claiming to know who was behind it)
  • The lead up to the actual declarations of war between Spain & the US, over two months after the Maine, and a brief rundown of the troubling legacies of this so-called “Splendid Little War”
  • A closer look at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) and its oft-overlooked connections to TR & to the Maine
  • Some possible alternative explanations for the sinking of the Maine
  • A basic description of the playbook of “The American Way of Going to War” that pro-war politicians & media outlets still use to this day, for one big reason: it keeps working

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March 8

Ep. 0159: A Modern-Day Grunt’s Perspective, Part 3

Once again, CJ is joined by US Army veteran BT to talk about BT’s experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Join CJ & BT as they discuss:

  • Thoughts on various people using veterans (or “the troops”) as pawns in their ideological narratives, such as the NFL/kneeling-during-the-anthem controversy
  • Some stories from BT’s first deployment to Iraq, during which time he was a Cavalry Scout in and around Mosul
  • Some stories from BT’s second deployment to Iraq, during which time he was a Blackhawk crew chief and mechanic in Baghdad
  • Some stories from BT’s deployment to Afghanistan, again working on Blackhawks
  • Multiple cases in which BT got in trouble for pointing out safety issues with the helicopters
  • Some of the negative fallout to his mental and physical health, and the damage to his relationship with his family, due to his military service

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March 1

Ep. 0158: Talking National Security Cinema with Tom Secker

For this episode of the DHP, CJ is joined by researcher, writer, and podcaster Tom Secker, the man behind the website SpyCulture.com and the podcast Clandestime, in a conversation primarily about Tom’s research into the national security state’s massive influence on movies and television.

Join CJ & Tom as they discuss:

  • Being a ‘moderate conspiracy theorist’
  • A bit about Tom’s background and how he got into researching these topics
  • ‘Entertainment Liaison Offices’ (or ELOs), and how these offices influence the entertainment industry on behalf of the military, the CIA, FBI, and NSA
  • A bit about Tom’s research methods
  • Some of the more surprising things Tom has discovered in his research
  • The significance of the security state’s influence on popular entertainment

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