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    Politics, History & Society

    16 episodes
    Politics, History & SocietyDwarkesh Podcast

    Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Oct 1, 2026 • 1 h 37 min

    Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Dec 19, 2025 • 1 h 55 min

    Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Oct 31, 2025 • 1 h 31 min

    How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Sep 5, 2025 • 1 h 35 min

    Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jul 25, 2025 • 1 h 56 min

    Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jul 10, 2025 • 2 h 13 min

    Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Apr 24, 2025 • 1 h 23 min

    Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jan 30, 2025 • 1 h 48 min

    Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jan 23, 2025 • 2 h 08 min

    Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jan 16, 2025 • 2 h 13 min

    Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Sep 18, 2024 • 1 h 28 min

    Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jun 26, 2024 • 53 min

    Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Jan 23, 2024 • 37 min

    Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Nov 22, 2023 • 1 h 19 min

    Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Nov 15, 2023 • 2 h 34 min

    Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

    Dwarkesh Podcast
    Oct 4, 2023 • 2 h 25 min