Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2023-05 to 2026-06.
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Historical analysis of Marxist figures reveals their deep-seated racism and personal contradictions that contradict their claims to represent the proletariat.
“You'll be reading letters in German between Marx and Engels and all of a sudden the N-word pops up. You know, the American, you know, English racial epithet. You know, N I G G. It's not like the German word for Negro or black.”
Jordan B Peterson · Jun 2024 · 1 episode · 1.4M views on this topicThe Soviet decision to place missiles in Cuba was a justifiable response to American nuclear bases in Turkey.
“yes, the USSR putting nukes in in Cuba was a good thing. Okay, 100% was a good thing. It allowed Cuba to maintain a a uh nuclear protection against the United States of America 100%.”
HasanAbi · Feb 2026 · 2 episodes · 418K views on this topicHistory does not inherently progress toward justice, but rather requires active fighting to achieve it.
“The idea that his like arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. 100% not true. It history does not have a single arc, and it doesn't bend, and justice is justice is something that you fight for.”
Brian Tyler Cohen · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 337K views on this topicRome's decline serves as a relevant model for current civilizational collapse due to shared issues of inflation, poor border control, and ethical failures in politics.
“I also host two YouTube channels, Hidden Forces in History, look at the forces behind history, as well as the Roman pattern, looking at civilizational collapse with Rome as a model.”
Timcast IRL · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 211K views on this topicAs a historian, the role is to identify and analyze long-term patterns in American history rather than making predictions about future events.
“I am not a journalist I'm a historian which means that I am looking for long-term patterns in American history and so um I'm usually looking to tell you what did happen not what I think is going to happen because I'm a big believer in the idea you don't know what's going to happen”
Heather Cox Richardson · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 134K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.