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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
CJ connects war, political power, and cultural memory through detailed historical narration and an unmistakably antiwar perspective.
CJ approaches the past through argument, storytelling, and an openly antiwar point of view. In DHP Ep. 89 Reissue: The Christmas Truce, he reconstructs the Western Front through battlefield conditions, failed offensives, official resistance to a holiday truce, and the conduct of…
The Christmas Truce meets antiwar songs; you get to sit with the cost of obeying orders.
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A phalanx lesson that turns battlefield position into a compact history of leading from the front.
Greek warfare comes through as a social order before it becomes a battlefield method. The episode lays out the phalanx as a packed, sideways rectangle, with young rookies held in the middle, seasoned men in their prime at the front, and older veterans behind them to keep the…
A new current-events show that mixes blunt analysis with a skeptical read on media narratives.
Brave the New World is a current-events and media-analysis show hosted by CJ and Matt Carano. Each week, it tries to pin down the biggest story and work through what seems to be happening beneath the headlines, with an interest in how media narratives get built.
A searching anti-war playlist that turns songs into historical argument.
CJ anchors the episode in Armistice Day and picks up the thread from his 2016 anti-war songs list, which gives the whole piece a firm historical frame.
A raw check-in about grief, illness, and trying to keep moving.
Back from the (Mostly) Dead finds CJ leaving the usual history lane to speak plainly about a hard stretch: a memorial for his stepfather, grief, a bad respiratory virus, and mental health struggles that have made steady work difficult to maintain.
A grim Christmas story about war, pressure, and the sudden shock of shared humanity.
This Christmas Truce episode pulls a familiar wartime story back into the mud, frost, and exhaustion of the Western Front, where winter and disease matter as much as enemy fire.
History with teeth, politics with memory.
CJ shares a personal update on his struggles over recent months, including mental health issues, financial stress, the loss of his stepfather to cancer, and a severe mystery respiratory virus that impacted his family.
CJ returns to a sequel he has been planning for a long time, following up on his earlier antiwar-songs list.
This episode reissues a past discussion on the 1914 Christmas truce during World War I, where German and Allied soldiers spontaneously ceased fighting to celebrate together.
CJ shares an episode from his new show Brave the New World where he and co-host Matt Carano analyze the latest Epstein file revelations, discussing the lack of consequences for elite connections, coded language suggesting wider conspiracies, and connections to political figures from both parties.
Digital Gold Mining Podcast episode featuring Zachary Townsend, co-founder and CEO of Meanwhile, a Bitcoin-native life insurance company.
The Dangerous History Podcast reissues Episode 74, which compares Western warfare rooted in archaic Greece with Eastern warfare traced to China around 500 BC.
The host introduces a two-part episode featuring 25 more anti-war songs, with the first 13 songs in this installment, and offers a YouTube playlist to supporters.
The host reissues an episode about the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, discussing its historical significance and lamenting the decline of English history education in America.
The host reintroduces the podcast after a long hiatus and presents a reissue of an episode from a series on the history of American slavery.
The host discusses the difficulty of arguing against climate change consensus and notes a recent shift in public skepticism due to pandemic-related distrust of institutions.
The host discusses the coincidence of Easter and 420, then introduces a live recording from 2019 about Harry Anslinger and the origins of the war on drugs.
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CJ's The Dangerous History Podcast episode Election Reflections examines Trump's 2024 victory through Daniel Kahneman's fast-and-slow thinking framework and historical comparisons.
The Dangerous History Podcast revisits Robert Michels's 1911 Iron Law of Oligarchy and its claim that complex organizations require concentrated leadership.
The host introduces a short episode exploring counterfactual history, specifically how changing one variable could have altered the course of history, with a focus on his ongoing Woodrow Wilson series.
The episode presents a conspiracy theory about the JFK assassination, alleging security forces orchestrated a cover-up.
This episode continues a critical biographical series on Woodrow Wilson, covering his academic career from PhD through professorship, with plans to analyze his ideas and presidency.