"I think Nolan can pull it off!" | I ask a Greek Mythology expert about the upcoming The Odyssey

"A BROKEN war veteran, coming home." The real meaning of The ODYSSEY | Prof. Peter Meineck

What happened to SLAVES who tried to escape the Roman Empire?

The horrific life of SLAVES in Ancient Rome | Emma Southon

The Summer of FIRE and BLOOD - The Peasants' War That Almost SHATTERED Feudal Europe | Lyndal Roper

"He was convinced of his own GREATNESS" | Katja Hoyer explains how HITLER managed to flip the vote

From Bauhaus to Buchenwald - the NAZI takeover of Weimar | Katja Hoyer

The BEEF that sparked the 1st World War - Austria-Hungary VS Serbia

Why did this 600-year European Empire suddenly FALL APART? | With Prof. Pieter Judson

What did the Greeks REALLY THINK about race, sexuality, slavery and religion? | Prof. Tony Spawforth

Nazi truth serum, the MKUltra plot and feeding LSD to your mom | Norman Ohler

Let's talk about the BITCOIN BROS | Dan Cassino

Some children claim they remember their PAST LIVES - what's going on? | Dr. Philip Cozzolino

Is the cataclysmic Late Bronze Age collapse still a MYSTERY? | Luke Kemp

Why the FALL of ROME was a good thing... | Luke Kemp

The real REASON empires fall - and how close WE are to the brink... | Luke Kemp

"He was the WORST!" | Renaissance Historian on the INFAMOUS Rule of Pope Alexander VI, "the Borgia"

"Fear any regime that gives power to CHILDREN" | Girolamo Savonarola's REIGN of TERROR

The RENAISSANCE: Ideas, Art, Money, libertine Popes, Medici and Savonarola | Prof. Kenneth Bartlett

In the 21st century, (pop) CULTURE has been a complete dumpster fire. Why is that? | W. David Marx

The old ECONOMIC ORDER is dead - but what is REPLACING it? | With Branko Milanovic

"A top power must have an EMPIRE!" | Chris Harding breaks down JAPAN's descend into WWII fascism

JAPAN was completely closed off for 200 years. Then a couple of AMERICAN ships appeared in Tokyo bay

From SAMURAI to SHINKANSEN - the Rise, Fall and Stagnation of MODERN JAPAN | @ChrisHardingJapan

The alluring MYSTERIES of Göbekli Tepe - the OLDEST monumental site in the world | Jens Notroff

"A FRIGHTENING moment for our society!" | How SCREENS are wreaking havoc on our lives

We have stopped READING - is it a sign our civilisation is COLLAPSING? | James Marriott

"Leisure time was GUARANTEED!" | Why do people have NOSTALGIA for the Soviet Union?

Hare Krishna, Russian Jesus and the End of the World | Chaos during the COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union

Is the rate of planetary warming ACCELERATING or not? The SPLIT within the climate science community

Joe Rogan claims the EARTH is cooling down. I talk to an actual CLIMATE scientist to dispel the BS

"They're too big TO CARE!" Cory Doctorow explains how GOOGLE deliberately degraded their own product

"It's a disgusting INVESTMENT BUBBLE! | Why Cory Doctorow isn't really worried about AI

Why does the INTERNET suck so bad now? | Cory Doctorow, author of ENSHITIFICATION, has a few ideas

Hamas is ready to negotiate. Israel keeps bombing. What's happening to Trump's GAZA peace plan?

Genocide in GAZA, the biggest crime of our time | Mouin Rabbani

The notorious two OPIUM WARS that ushered in China's century of HUMILIATION | Prof. Yang-Wen Zheng

How a SLAVE ARMY stopped the invincible MONGOL advance

"At least he's talking about BLACKROCK!" | On JOE ROGAN and the rise of anti-experts

"The Right would like to portray this as CIVIL WAR" | Reckless framing of the CHARLIE KIRK killing

Is the killing of CHARLIE KIRK another symptom of a disintegrating political SYSTEM? | Will Davies

What was the real story behind the legendary order of ASSASSINS? A famous HISTORIAN answers

The one power that finally managed to BEAT BACK the ruthless MONGOL invasions | Nicholas Morton

He EXECUTED a group of Mongol traders. The Mongols INVADED and poured molten silver into his eyes

Medieval Europeans Thought GENGHIS KHAN was a Mythical CHRISTIAN King... It was a terrible MISTAKE

You're a MEDIEVAL King in the Middle East... and the MONGOLS have just showed up | Nicholas Morton

"It's a RAT RACE, but unlike the US you only need 1 job!" | Kaiser Kuo on everyday life in CHINA

"Unlike the US, China doesn't want to push its IDEOLOGY on others!" | What we get wrong about CHINA

Global favourability of CHINA is rising, while the US is falling. Why? | Kaiser Kuo breaks it down

The West is CLUELESS about China. Here's why that's a MISTAKE | Kaiser Kuo

Incompetent and loud OR quiet and effective - WHICH do we usually choose as our LEADERS?

I asked a LEADERSHIP expert how can I become an inspiring BASKETBALL coach... Here's what he SAID

At work and in politics, WHY do we keep choosing BAD LEADERS? | Martin Gutmann

"He's sending ICE out like the Gestapo!" | Is TRUMP turning the US into a totalitarian state??

"I hope I'm wrong!" | Famous historian thinks CIVIL WAR is the US is possible

"There was nowhere to HIDE!" | The brutal psychology of Stalinist PURGES

The TOTALITARIANISM of Hitler, Stalin and... Trump? | Marci Shore

Is current AI 5 minutes away from MURDERING us all, or is it actually just a glorified AUTOCORRECT?

"It's about POWER!" | What are people such as Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Elon Musk REALLY after?

AI empires are here - what are they after? | Nick Srnicek