2:30

How Japan Beat Russia with the Meiji Reforms – Sarah Paine

5:38

Why Russia Was Defeated By A Smaller Japan – Sarah Paine

5:19

America Will No Longer Lead the West – Sarah Paine

7:44

When China Divorced the USSR – Stephen Kotkin

5:31

Communism Did Not Bring China Out of Poverty – Stephen Kotkin

4:43

Stalin Was Not the Problem – Stephen Kotkin

6:05

Why Stalin’s Loyalists Let Him Kill Them

6:15

The Tragic Irony of the Russian Revolution

3:10

The Origins of Stalin’s Secret Police

6:04

The Left's 100 Year Long Civil War

4:01

The Real Reason Russia Never Became a Democracy

8:53

Stalin: How Repression Creates Revolutionaries – Stephen Kotkin

6:00

Modernization: The Tsarist Regime and Putin's Common Problem – Stephen Kotkin

2:26

Stephen Kotkin's Takedown of NYC Mayor Nominee Zohran Mamdani

9:09

Why Did No One Kill Stalin? – Stephen Kotkin

5:16

Why Are Intellectuals So Attracted to Marxism? – Stephen Kotkin

13:11

Tech Fantasies Couldn't Save the USSR (and the CCP?) – Stephen Kotkin

4:06

How Millions Helped Stalin Kill Millions – Stephen Kotkin

3:08

The Upside of Cutting NIH Funding? – George Church

8:24

Genetic Counseling Is Deeply Misunderstood – George Church

5:03

What Would Biological Proof of Aliens Look Like?

3:46

AGI Not Required for Scientific Progress – George Church

5:24

Can One Gene Change Everything? – George Church

10:41

Moore's Law for Biology – George Church

6:56

How to Stop Mirror Life From Killing Everything – George Church

6:01

The Man Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth

6:56

When Will We Cure Aging? – George Church

6:31

Why Does the US Fear China's Prosperity? – Arthur Kroeber

8:13

How China and Silicon Valley Think the Same – Arthur Kroeber

8:37

Why Constraining China With Tariffs Will Fail – Arthur Kroeber

8:30

Why America's Understanding of China is Failing – Arthur Kroeber

7:24

How China's Central Planning Succeeded – Arthur Kroeber

10:55

Communicating with China is a Matter of Life or Death

7:24

The Story of How BYD Crushed Tesla

4:31

Can the EU's Economy Catch up to America's? – Kenneth Rogoff

7:27

Massively Deflationary AI – Kenneth Rogoff

9:16

The Federal Reserve is Fighting for it's Independence – Kenneth Rogoff

5:14

China's Ronald Reagan – Kenneth Rogoff

4:04

Both the US and China Face Competency Crises – Kenneth Rogoff

10:21

How the US broke Japan's economy – Kenneth Rogoff

3:26

The Caste System Stifled Innovation – Joseph Henrich

3:28

China’s Republicans & Democrats? – Victor Shih

4:12

Does China Choose Politics Over Science? – Victor Shih

7:08

Why China Builds Bullet Trains to Nowhere – Victor Shih

3:22

The Billions Wasted by China's State Capitalism – Victor Shih

7:36

Why China's Stocks Are Stagnating – Victor Shih

4:15

China's Secret Debt Crisis – Victor Shih

5:26

Xi vs Stalin

3:58

Inside China's Politburo – Victor Shih

2:56

Is China Actually More Decentralized Than America? – Victor Shih

4:51

What if Xi Suddenly Died? – Victor Shih

3:05

Will Xi Invade Taiwan Before 2030? - Victor Shih

5:59

Anthropic Engineers: Junior SWEs Automated by End of Year

3:18

AGI By 2030 or Bust– Sholto and Trenton

3:46

Why Didn't AlphaZero Get Us To AGI? – Sholto and Trenton

4:24

Is DeepSeek actually beyond the technical frontier?

4:08

How Can Students Prepare For AGI? – Trenton and Sholto

7:07

Smarter LLMs Are Becoming More Self Aware

2:56

What Happened When India and Pakistan Agreed – Sarah Paine

3:21

The Fallout from Nixon and Indira Gandhi – Sarah Paine

5:55

How Alliances Are Made – Sarah Paine

5:06

How U.S. Efforts to Befriend Pakistan and India Backfired – Sarah Paine

5:01

How China Lost India Forever – Sarah Paine

2:51

Why Did China Take Tibet?

4:13

Why Xi Jinping Still Reveres Mao – Sarah Paine

3:46

Why the CCP Fears Taiwan – Sarah Paine

4:02

How an American Became Mao's Propagandist – Sarah Paine

3:44

How Words Win Wars – Sarah Paine

2:50

How Defeat Made Taiwan – Sarah Paine

4:43

"Americans need to worry about overextension." – Sarah Paine

3:32

Brokering Peace Between Mortal Enemies – Sarah Paine

3:14

"Great Depressions Provide Hothouse Conditions for Dictators" – Sarah Paine

3:19

The Difference Between Stalin and Mao – Sarah Paine

3:05

The Logic Behind Mao’s Madness – Sarah Paine

3:16

The Yin and Yang of Chairman Mao – Sarah Paine

6:14

Why Didn't Ancient Roman Slaves Revolt More? – Kyle Harper

4:02

Mark Zuckerberg On Meta Donating to Trump's Inauguration

3:50

What Will Software Engineers Build If They're 100x Productive? – Mark Zuckerberg

7:27

AI Will Write Most Code in 12-18 Months – Mark Zuckerberg

4:20

Will AI Friends Help Combat the Loneliness Epidemic? – Mark Zuckerberg

4:54

Mark Zuckerberg Responds to LLaMA 4 Critics

3:39

Why Didn't Ancient Rome Have an Industrial Revolution? – Kyle Harper

5:41

The Surprising Ideology Behind Roman Slavery – Kyle Harper

5:35

Was Agriculture Humanity's Worst Mistake?

5:30

Would Rome Have Fallen Without Plague? – Kyle Harper

7:58

How Volcanoes Led to the Fall of Rome – Kyle Harper

7:45

Mao’s Tactics: Lure, Trap, Win – Sarah Paine

5:42

Mao's 3 Phase War Strategy – Sarah Paine

2:58

Women Were Mao's Secret Weapon – Sarah Paine

3:37

Will AI Make Central Planning Work? – Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

5:49

Complex Reasoning Isn’t General Intelligence – Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

5:35

Collective Intelligence of AI is Underrated – Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

6:35

"Intelligence Explosion" is a Mistaken Concept – Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

3:42

The Real Factors Deciding the US vs. China AI Race – Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

6:59

Sarah Paine – Guerilla Tactics: Mao's Military Genius

5:03

Sarah Paine – Mao's Bait and Switch

3:39

Sarah Paine – How Mao Used Statistics to Mastermind Strategy

4:59

The Wars that Created Mao – Sarah Paine

8:13

Mao Hated Farming So He Mastered Propaganda – Sarah Paine

3:53

How Mao Killed More than WWI and II Combined – Sarah Paine