#25 Enemy: The Germans' War, ep. 1 - We Are The War
21 Oct 2025
The First World War shattered a generation of Europeans. Killing took place on a monumental scale, as whole societies gave their all for their countries. German men who spent their young adulthood in
Easter Message 2 - Confrontation: The Book of Job
21 Apr 2025
Happy Easter, everybody.
#24 Enemy, Prologue: Enemies of All Mankind
19 Jan 2025
Support the podcast by subscribing to the Martyr Made Substack (https://subscribe.martyrmade.com/). The Second World War was the greatest catastrophe in human history. Sixty million people dead.
Easter Message
31 Mar 2024
Hi everybody. This is a short Easter message I put together a year or two ago. It's been up on the Martyr Made Substack (https://martyrmade.substack.com/) - which you should all go subscribe to at
The Prodigal Sons - Nietzsche and Dostoevsky (Novitate Conference, Nov 2023)
31 Jan 2024
Hi everyone. Here is a talk I gave about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky at the first inaugural Novitate Conference (https://novitateconference.org/) in Washington, DC. Novitate was created by Luke
Blacks and Jews (Complete Series)
30 Nov 2023
Hi everybody. This is the audio version of a six-part essay series called Blacks and Jews. I wrote it for my Substack a while back, so if it sounds like I’m reading instead of speaking naturally,
The Complete Jeffrey Epstein Series
25 Nov 2023
I’m re-uploading all the podcasts from a new hosting service, so I thought I’d go ahead and put the full Epstein series up while I was at it. This series deals with some very dark material. It
War All the Time: Israel vs. Palestine, 1948-82 (Bonus Episode)
11 Nov 2023
This episode will cover the period from 1948 – the year of Israeli independence and the Palestinian Nakba – to the Lebanon War of 1982. It is not meant to be a thorough history of that period, as
#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
26 Jun 2023
The Great Migration of 1915-1960 saw over six million African Americans move from the rural South to the big cities of the North and West. It was one of the largest mass migrations in human history,
#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction
9 Sep 2022
In August 1921, 10,000-20,000 armed coal miners marched on Mingo County, West Virginia to lift the martial law imposed there, free their jailed brethren, and avenge the assassination of one of their
#21 Whose America?: Prologue
23 May 2022
Hi everyone. Here is the first episode – well, the prologue – for a brand new Martyr Made series called Whose America?, on the American labor wars. This is a series I’ve been working on for a
On the Front Lines w/The Eastern Border (preview)
18 Mar 2022
Hey everyone. After the recent Thoughts On Ukraine episode, I thought it would be a good idea to bring someone on the show who has a different perspective. Kristaps Andrejsons is a Latvian journalist,
Thoughts on Ukraine (Updated and Remastered)
14 Mar 2022
Hey everybody. Many of you have asked for my thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine, so here they are. I re-recorded it because the audio was trash the first time around. Sorry about that. This is the
#20 – The Underground Spirit
31 Aug 2021
There’s a quote always attributed to Winston Churchill – falsely, I think? – that goes something like, “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by
#19 – The Anti-Humans
31 May 2021
History is replete with examples of leaders, nations, and empires who left a trail of blood behind them. But with the Bolshevik takeover of Russia after the First World War, something new crawled
#18 – The Madame Butterfly Effect (bonus episode)
11 Nov 2020
This is a short piece I did for Daniele's History on Fire podcast. Many of you may have already heard it, but I thought I'd put it on the main feed just in case. It was a fun break from Jim Jones,
#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End
17 Oct 2020
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple follow the remnants of the 1970s radical left into the fire. WARNING: Extreme language and disturbing content. Thank you to www.campuspress.com for sponsoring this
#16 – God’s Socialist, pt. 6: No Driver At The Wheel
15 Jun 2020
This was originally intended to be part of the previous episode, but I decided to break them up. Warning: EXTREME LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENT The student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party
#15 - God’s Socialist, pt. 5: The Wounded King
15 Jun 2020
This episode begins where the '60s end, when the radicalism of that decade crash headlong into the diminishing expectations of 1970s America. The Weather Underground veers off toward its explosive
#14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution
10 Feb 2020
This episode discusses the beginning of Peoples' Temple's slide into radicalism after Jim Jones leads his people to California. We also talk about the development of 1960s radical political
#13 – God’s Socialist, pt. 3: Head North, Then Turn Left
24 Jun 2019
In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King,
#12 - God's Socialist, pt. 2: What Child Is This?
15 Apr 2019
This is part 2 of a podcast series on Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple movement. An eccentric loner as a child, Jim Jones finds purpose in the fight for racial and economic justice.
#11 - God's Socialist: Prologue
4 Mar 2019
This is the first episode of a series exploring Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. This episode is only a prologue, a few stories and ideas to serve as a backdrop for everything to come. The next
#10 - Anything That Moves - The My Lai Massacre (w/History on Fire)
8 Mar 2018
This is part 2 of a series I’ve been working on with Daniele Bolelli. In part 1, he covered the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre carried out by the US Army. I was working on my next major series when
#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny
31 Aug 2017
“Mexica ‘beliefs’ have been discussed confidently enough, but academics being natural theologians, usually at an unnaturally abstract pitch. My interest is not in belief at this formal level,
#8 - How to Serve Man - Sacrifice & Cannibalism, pt. 1
27 Jun 2017
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#7 - Approaching the Aztecs - A Drunken Introduction
5 Jun 2017
In which I take a break from banging out my human sacrifice episode to check in with my patient listeners. I’m working on a series of companion episodes to go along with Daniele Bolelli’s History
#6 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Never Again
20 Dec 2016
Modern Zionism began in the late 19th century with idealistic calls for spiritual renewal; by 1939, it had transformed into a desperate play for bare survival. Young revolutionaries do combat with
#5 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Things Fall Apart...
16 Apr 2016
Riots. Massacres. The end of the world and everything in it. Palestinian Arabs finally find a voice in the wake of the 1929 massacres. Unable and unwilling to find a place for the Jews, Europe’s
#4 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 3
23 Nov 2015
Hi everyone. Been a long time. My day job has been downright abusive the last 2-3 months, but we’re back with Episode 4 of Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem. As the Middle Eastern regional order
#3 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Nostalgia and Naivety in Honor Culture
18 Jul 2015
We’re halfway through Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, the history of Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (If you haven’t listened to the first two episodes, you might want to do
#2 - Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 2
19 Jun 2015
The Arabs and the Zionists in Palestine struggle to get their bearings in a ruined world. The smell of gunsmoke still lays thick over the landscape, and the ink is still wet on the Balfour
#1 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 1
19 Mar 2015
The conflict between Israel and Palestine can often seem like a permanent feature of the global order. The wars, intifadas, refugees camps, suicide vests, UN resolutions, and peace talks have been