Several listeners have asked about work and research I did while in graduate school, so I decided to share with you one of the few things I wrote in grad school that A) I still have and B) I’m proud of & think is at least somewhat interesting.

Join CJ as he discusses: The Law by Frederic Bastiat The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie The State by Franz Oppenheimer Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by ...

Join CJ as he discusses: Crisis & Leviathan by Robert Higgs The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn The Triumph of Conser...

I’m back to work after Christmas break, and so fittingly I’ve got an episode recorded while commuting in The Silver Bullet (my silver Hyundai Accent hatchback.) How should we think about the deaths of famous and/or influential people?

Alright, first episode of 2016 for the DHP & it’s going to be something I haven’t done in a criminally negligently long time: listener emails. Join CJ as he discusses: Monotheism vs. polytheism in relation to state power Psychology as a means of contro...

One-hundred-and-one Christmases ago, in the cold, damp, muddy ditches of the Western Front, the rank-and-file of the Allied and German armies spontaneously set aside their hatreds to take a break from mass-murdering each other,

Thaddeus Russell is a historian and cultural critic and the author of A Renegade History of the United States. He holds a Ph D from Columbia University. He teaches American history and cultural studies at Occidental College and has taught at Columbia U...

Join CJ as he discusses: How people lived in the Paleolithic Era, which actually encompasses the vast majority of human existence The Neolithic Revolution and the coming of agriculture The domestication of grains and their rise to dominate global food ...

George Dennis Patrick Carlin (1937-2008) was not just one of the greatest comedians of the last 50 years, he was also one of the most intelligent and, ultimately, dangerous. Join CJ as he discusses: George Carlin’s life & career Some of the major and/o...

Daniele Bolelli is a writer, martial artist, university professor, and podcaster. He was born in Italy and currently lives in Los Angeles.  His podcasts are The Drunken Taoist Podcast and History on Fire.  His books include On the Warrior’s Path,

Robert Morris is one of the lesser-known “Founding Fathers” today, even though arguably he was one of the most important and influential.  He served as a virtual chief executive of the country in the latter years of the Revolutionary war and was the fa...

Here it is — the sixth & final installment of the DHP History of Irregular Warfare series with Bill Buppert. Join CJ & Bill as they discuss: Circumstances in which insurgents do or do not have the moral high ground The impact of technologies on insurge...

Here is the first mobile DHP episode in a while, recorded over the course of my commute to & from work. (BTW, the audio is much improved over previous in-the-car recordings!) Join CJ as he discusses: The basic concept of this alliance,

Join CJ & Bill as they discuss: Key factors that cause insurgencies to succeed or fail The importance of external help to guerrillas and insurgents The effects of terrain (including urban terrain) on irregular warfare Circumstances under which guerrill...

Join CJ & Bill as they discuss: Some of the post-WWII wars of ‘decolonization’ the British & French fought in places like Malaya, Kenya, & Algeria Vietnam, comparing the French performance there in the 19th century to the French & American performance ...

Join CJ & Bill as they discuss: Col. T.E. Lawrence’s operations in Arabia during the First World War The Anglo-Irish War and its primary mastermind, Michael Collins The concept of “peak guerrilla” or “peak G” in the West in the years 1916-1922 Mao Tse ...

  Join CJ & Bill as they discuss: The 1807-1814 Peninsular War in Spain during the Napoleonic era (with a few remarks about the potential effectiveness of fighters with no prior military background, and some examples of this from the American Revolutio...

This episode is the first part of my conversation with Bill Buppert on the history of irregular warfare. Bill Buppert is a retired Army officer. He has been a writer for a number of publications including lewrockwell.com.

Join CJ as he discusses: The intent and wording of the Second Amendment, and the utility of the Bill of Rights File-sharing, torrents, and other methods of information-sharing, and the ways in which industries are approaching these ‘Best’ (or least wor...

Today we’re talking scifi dystopia novels — stories that depict a fictional future world that is somehow ‘bad,’ or in other words, a negative utopia. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World George Orwell’s 1984 Ira Levin’s This Pe...

To begin laying some of the groundwork for the upcoming miniseries on the history of modern guerrilla and unconventional war, here’s a discussion of two different paradigms of what war is supposed to be and how it is supposed to be fought.

(First off:  Apologies in advance for the audio quality drop-off after about the first half-hour — had an equipment SNAFU but had to just go on with backup gear in order to get the episode recorded during the narrow window of time I had this week to do...

This month is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and the subsequent surrender of Japan to the United States, ending World War II.  The standard mainstream American narrative about this portrays it as a no-brainer,

The Calusa were a fascinating Native American people who populated the southwestern coast of Florida.  Despite having no real agriculture, they developed a dense, sedentary, complex society, with all the good & bad that entails.

Often described as the world’s first empire-builder, Sargon of Akkad may not entirely deserve that title.  But he’s the earliest empire-builder to achieve lasting notoriety. Join Prof CJ as he discusses: A brief excerpt from “The Legend of Sargon” The ...