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Aux 5: Should Martin Delany have been cancelled?

Martin Delany was the would-be founding father of a West African colony who secretly supported John Brown’s treasonous raid on Harpers Ferry—only to ally himself with Southern Confederates after the Civil War. Why did endorse a Democrat for governor? Should he have been canceled from history?

Feb 01, 2022•11 min

Aux 4: Idiotic Controversies of the Past

Looking into the distant past, we see people fighting over arcane differences. Are our fights any less trivial?

Jan 31, 2022•20 min

Aux 3: Warrior Culture

In this episode we consider Warrior Culture.

Jan 29, 2022•11 min

Aux 2: Moderates Are Dangerous

Edmund Burke (18th century) and Karl Popper (20th century) were two political philosophers who failed to see the danger of the status quo and moderation. Audio on audio.

Jan 24, 2022•27 min

Aux 1: Generosity to the Opponent

The principle of generosity in a debate or dialogue: don't ignore or mischaracterize your opponent's argument. In this podcast, we consider Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943-44 versus Stalin and collectivization. Here are some of the sources we consider: Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Arthur Herman 2008 - A History of British India By: The Great Courses, Hayden J. Bellenoit 2017 - Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravag...

Jan 21, 2022•43 min

Federal Reserve Main Street Lending

A call about the Federal Reserve's Main Street lending program.

Aug 10, 2020•10 min

CMV Podcast Crosspost

in the subreddit r/changemyview I battled an army of neoliberal billionaire's boots lickers and whooped them. They had no argument, just a bunch of irrational hypotheticals and nonsensical arguments about something being "arbitrary" and in fact eliminating all science and law as "arbitrary" in the process without realizing. No argument. The revolution is the answer and no one can explain why it isn't.

Dec 06, 2018•37 min

Commentary on the French Revolution - phlogiston - 5:9:18

BBC History Extra Podcast interview with Steven Clark critiqued. If you want to debunk myths of the French Revolution, beating up the Jacobins is not the way to do it. Rather, if the French revolution failed, the flaw was the increase in state power.

May 09, 2018•14 min

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