Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next) (#149) Can we have a science of history? And if we can, what does it tell us about the American trajectory? September 01, 2023
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb (#146) Richard Rhodes is an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. July 26, 2023
The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple (#138) William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and writer. October 02, 2021
#133: A General Theory Of Catastrophe – Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover June 07, 2021
#129: Marvellous Melbourne And Australia's Darkest Depression – Graeme Davison Graeme Davison is Australia’s most eminent urban historian. Read the full transcript [Transcript coming soon.] May 04, 2021
#125: The Reign Of Keynes, Part II – Lord Robert Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky, FBA is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist John March 22, 2021
#122: The Reign Of Keynes, Part I – Zach Carter Zach Carter is a senior reporter at The Huffington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price March 01, 2021
#107: The Roaring Twenties And The Birth Of Consumer Credit – Martha Olney Martha Olney is an economist and Teaching Professor in Berkeley’s Economics Department. Show notes Selected links * Follow Martha: Website | Twitter December 07, 2020
#83: The Silent Hero Of The Australian Economy – Ian Macfarlane Ian Macfarlane was Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1996 to 2006. He is the author of The Search January 16, 2020
#80: The Untold Tale of How One Ruthless Company Subjugated a Subcontinent – William Dalrymple William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and travel writer. He lives nine months of the year on a goat farm outside November 05, 2019
#52: A Short Story of Everything – David Christian The universe is 13.8 billion years old and humans have existed for only 200,000 years. If that time span June 07, 2018