The Blonde Conspiracy feat. Greg Zink (An Impossible Interview VII)
In this newest History Impossible conversation, I’m speaking with Greg Zink, the host of the Smoke Filled Rooms podcast, a new and up-and-coming show that gives us a deep dive into political true crim...
24 Jan 20232h 53min
Stakeholder Nazism (An Impossible Polemic)
Happy 2023, everybody. I hope everyone's 2022 was a good one. It's hard to believe we're really getting into this new decade often portrayed as "the future" in old-school sci-fi/cyberpunk stories, isn...
2 Jan 20231h 44min
The Birth of the Lexicon, Part II: The American Lunatic (Infinitesimal Impossibilities 04)
In this second part of our story about the birth of the Oxford English Dictionary, we cover the second half--perhaps the second hemisphere, to use a brain pun--of the main minds behind the creation of...
19 Des 20222h 13min
The Birth of the Lexicon, Part I: The Scottish Polymath (Infinitesimal Impossibilities 04)
If ever there was a story whose subject was small but whose effect was immense--i.e., the central theme of Infinitesimal Impossibilities--this would be that story.We don't often think about where word...
12 Des 20221h 38min
Ken Burns' Water-Carrying Failure
Hey everybody. This is the first of hopefully many audio versions of the essays/analyses I write for the History Impossible Substack. This one is going up on the public feed of the podcast (though you...
21 Nov 202246min
A Third Reich Bildungsroman
NOTE: Please stick through the intro. There's an important announcement.WARNING: This episode contains the use of offensive racial epithets and disturbing depictions of bigotry that some listeners may...
25 Okt 20224h 56min
Assassinations and Historical Discontents (ft. Kristaps Andrejsons of the Eastern Border)
In this special episode of History Impossible--and The Eastern Border--I was lucky enough to sit down with the host OF The Eastern Border, Kristaps Andrejsons, in what I am calling my fastest guest tu...
13 Sep 20221h 39min
The Fuhrer’s Court Jew Part II: The Fall of Icarus
You can only fly so close to the sun for so long before the wax starts melting.This was a lesson that Erik Jan Hanussen, the most successful and famous clairvoyant in Europe (and quite possibly the wo...
2 Aug 20222h 16min
