"WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, Culture
Rudyard Lynch
WhatifAltHist is a podcast from Rudyard Lynch that looks to try to find the patterns in history and anthropology so as to predict the future and understand the dynamics that result in civilizations rising and falling. It began as an enormously popular alternate history channel with nearly 600K listeners and more than 100M views on YouTube. Rudyard Lynch also hosts the podcast History 102 with Erik Torenberg, which attempts to solidly explain pivotal historical events in depth in under an hour.Topics covered: World History, Philosophy, Civilization, Culture WhatifAlthist is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: turpentine.co
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the "WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, Culture podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Leviathan and its Enemies
Sam Francis
#2 Mentioned in 5 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#3 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The master and his emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Iain McGilchrist
#4 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Myth of Disenchantment
Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The decline of the West
Oswald Spengler
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The road to serfdom
Friedrich Von Hayek
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Lonely Crowd
A Study of the Changing American Character
David Riesman
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Great Wave
David Hackett Fischer
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Sex and Power and History
Amory Doreenacour
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
A conflict of visions
Thomas Sowell
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Elephant in the Brain
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Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Bullshit Jobs
A Theory
David Graeber
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Fire in the minds of men
Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
James H. Billington
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Ethnic America
Thomas Sowell
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Tragedy and hope
A History of the World in Our Time
Carroll Quigley
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Odyssey
Homer
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The passion of the Western mind
Richard Tarnas
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
On Heroes
Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
Carlyle
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mosquito Empires
McNeil
