Why Was Africa Never as Developed as The Rest of the World?
Today's question is a tricky one that has to do with global politics, colonialism, and threatens to enter the minefield of race. Why do so many African nations sit at the bottom of global development ...
21 Juni 20179min
Did King Arthur and Merlin Truly Exist?
Did the greatest king who ever lived ever live? That's a tricky question. The fabled first king of England, the mythological figure associated with Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, may have...
20 Juni 20178min
What the Saints Drank and Monks Brewed—Michael Foley
Michael Foley loves contradictions. He is a Catholic professor of patristics—a study of the lives of early Christian theologians—at a dry Baptist university. That didn't stop him from writing a book t...
19 Juni 20171h
Who Built the Pyramids? Aliens?
Today's question comes from Nayeli Carpenter She asks about lost civilizations: pyramid builds, Egyptians, Mayans, Incans, especially the ones where cultures disappeared mysteriously. I'm going to con...
16 Juni 20177min
Can You Explain the 1915 Armenian Genocide?
Today's question comes to us from Kevin deLaplante, creator of the Critical Thinker Academy and host of the Argument Ninja Podcast. Can you tell me about the 1915 Armenian Genocide and why today's pol...
15 Juni 201713min
How Important Was the Spice Trade to Medieval Europe?
Today's question comes from Jaime Martínez Bowness: Hi - here's a quick list of topics I thought of: The importance of the spice trade in Medieval times TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review ...
14 Juni 20179min
What Happened to Places Like Catalonia After Rome’s Fall?
Today's question comes to us from Nate Finch: I would love for you to do a podcast (series?) on Mediterranean "empires" after Rome (e.g. the Catalonian "empire", which extended all the way to Italy, t...
13 Juni 20177min
Was Hitler a Christian, Atheist, or Something Else? — Richard Weikart
No matter how little you know about history, you know something about Adolf Hitler. And if you want to shut down an opponent, you can claim that Hitler said/did/believed the same thing. Godwin's Law e...
12 Juni 20171h
