The Weird History Podcast

Recent Episodes

113 Italian Fascism Part Two, What is Fascism, Anyway?

Posted January 19, 2017 • 00:25:29

In this episode we try to answer (or at least clarify) one of the most vexing questions of political science, history, philosophy, and contemporary...

112 Italian Fascism Part One: The Idea of Italy

Posted January 12, 2017 • 00:21:22

Fascism is the most malignant of the major political ideologies, and one of the least understood. For fascism, the nation (and therefore state) are...

111 Heather Arndt Anderson on Chilies

Posted January 5, 2017 • 00:26:09

This week’s show is an interview with Heather Arndt Anderson, author of Chilies: A Global History. We talk about the origins of chilies, their spread...

Mystery Series Announcement!

Posted December 29, 2016 • 00:01:56

We’re still on break, but we’ll be back with an interview episode on January 5th, and the start of a long-form series on January 12th.

110 Years of the Reaper

Posted December 15, 2016 • 00:14:42

2016 has been a year marked by death. In this episode we get into a few other years notable for being especially deadly, and why this past year has...