Best Alexander von Sternberg Podcasts (2025)

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A Velvet Jihad 1:33:36

4d ago1:33:36

1:33:36

Please note: This episode was made before I learned about the influence of Qatar in various parts of the United States (including, apparently, the Oval Office for the mere price of a plane), but honestly, it all just serves to help confirm my overall thesis all the more. World events have a funny way of rendering old analyses irrelevant, but I am s…

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Episode 272 - The Viktor Frankl Ritual 1:07:13

19d ago1:07:13

1:07:13

Episode 272 - The Viktor Frankl Ritual

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Trump 2.0: Making America Progressive Again 57:43

1M ago57:43

57:43

The question of who President Donald Trump resembled in history is one that has become almost a cliche, mostly thanks to its ideological Rorschach quality, especially during his first term and in the years leading up to his second. This has become far less of a debate, thanks largely to the man himself actually citing his influences. This was what …

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Episode 271 - Socrates' Wisdom 51:25

2M ago51:25

51:25

Episode 271 - Socrates' Wisdom

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Episode 270 - Extreme Wilderness Adventures with Stephan Kesting 1:22:47

2M ago1:22:47

1:22:47

Episode 270 - Extreme Wilderness Adventures with Stephan Kesting

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Diplomacy on the Eastern Border (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons, Jack Johannson, & Zack Twamley) 2:53:19

2M ago2:53:19

2:53:19

I was recently invited to join in a panel discussion with three podcasting greats and people I consider friends—that is, The Eastern Border’s Kristaps Andrejsons, the Secret Police podcast’s Jack Johannson, and When Diplomacy Fails podcast’s Zack Twamley. It originally went up on the Eastern Border feed, split into two parts, but Kristaps was kind …

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The Slave Who Would Be a Spy (w/ Isaac Willour) 1:00:49

3M ago1:00:49

1:00:49

Slavery is often known as the United States’ original sin, and for good reason. Much of our perceptions of it are informed both by the Civil War’s cause and outcome, and the contradictions—and even moral hypocrisy—that it created with our Founding Fathers’ professed beliefs. Contradiction is the theme not just of the United States’ values and histo…

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The Spirit of the American West (w/ David McGarry) 1:41:48

3M ago1:41:48

1:41:48

The American West (or the “Wild West” as it’s still sometimes known) is arguably one of the defining features of the United States’ history and culture, if not the most defining feature. After all, much of the world has the image of the American cowboy (or less often, the American settler) planted firmly in their heads when they think of “Americans…

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Episode 269 - The Roots of Violence 1:05:10

3M ago1:05:10

1:05:10

Episode 269 - The Roots of Violence

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A Bug in the Software 56:05

3M ago56:05

56:05

Hey everyone, happy to present to all of you fine people with a brief bonus, this time adapting my recent historiographical essay that I had written my first semester in graduate school on the study of infectious disease’s effects throughout history and how it was written about from around the 1970s until the 2010s. This should serve as a nice pair…

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Mother's Wrath, Mankind's Bargain (The Los Angeles Fires of 2025) 1:50:57

4M ago1:50:57

1:50:57

In this episode of History Impossible inaugurating 2025 and the sixth anniversary of the show, we will be looking at the Los Angeles Fires of 2025 but from an extended, historical, and probably overly philosophical lens. Because as it turns out, natural disasters are a constant of the human experience and create some of the greatest extremes, and r…

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Episode 268 - Jimi Hendrix, Taoism and Luigi Mangione 1:04:24

4M ago1:04:24

1:04:24

Episode 268 - Jimi Hendrix, Taoism and Luigi Mangione

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Episode 267 - James Pieratt (Wild Hunt Conditioning) 1:08:30

4M ago1:08:30

1:08:30

Episode 267 - James Pieratt (Wild Hunt Conditioning)

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Episode 266 - Creating Beauty in the Midst of Horror 59:07

5M ago59:07

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Episode 266 - Creating Beauty in the Midst of HorrorBy Daniele Bolelli

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A Revulsion of Feeling: The Arab Revolt and Collective Identity 1:31:15

5M ago1:31:15

1:31:15

This is the first installment of something that doesn’t really have a name; the Grad School Files? That sounds a little like a bad Netflix show. I’ll take suggestions, but in the meantime, we can simply define this as it is: the first adaptation of one of my academic papers from graduate school into an honest-to-goodness episode of History Impossib…

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Episode 265 - The Musashi Experience with Nic Gregoriades 1:05:45

6M ago1:05:45

1:05:45

Episode 265 - The Musashi Experience with Nic GregoriadesBy Daniele Bolelli

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The Question of Genocide 1:04:57

6M ago1:04:57

1:04:57

This episode of History Impossible is an adaptation of the historical polemic I wrote on the one-year anniversary of October 7th, 2023, examining the interpretation of genocide, as applied to the current war between Hamas and Israel, and to the devastation wrought against the Bosnian Muslims by their Serb counterparts in the early 1990s. This episo…

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The Original Donald Trump (Throwback Thursday!) 2:48:00

6M ago2:48:00

2:48:00

Hello all, hope you are doing well. For a long time, I was skeptical of doing “re-runs” of History Impossible’s earlier episodes. I didn’t think that I had the “right” to do so, or something along those lines. Obviously, that’s a silly way of looking at things and, to be honest, it’s counterproductive. Many of you reading or hearing this have been …

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Episode 264 - The 'Yes And...' Approach 1:05:05

7M ago1:05:05

1:05:05

Episode 264 - The 'Yes And...' ApproachBy Daniele Bolelli

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Episode 263 - Guilt by Association: A Chat with Alexander Von Sternberg 1:21:24

7M ago1:21:24

1:21:24

Episode 263 - Guilt by Association: A Chat with Alexander Von SternbergBy Daniele Bolelli

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Revisionism and Misplaced Empathy: The Darryl Cooper - Tucker Carlson Situation 1:24:47

8M ago1:24:47

1:24:47

I have, for many years, recommended Darryl Cooper’s hit podcast Martyr Made to the relative handful of people kind enough to listen to my own show and read my thoughts on various publications, including my own Substack. And not to fully bury the lede, I still do, though admittedly with a little more reservation than I might otherwise have only a mo…

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Episode 262 - Art, Travel and Life with Yoshino 1:09:15

8M ago1:09:15

1:09:15

Episode 262 - Art, Travel and Life with Yoshino

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Episode 261 - Should I Move to Italy? 57:46

9M ago57:46

57:46

Episode 261 - Should I Move to Italy?

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The Elites Who Would Play God (w/ CJ Killmer of Dangerous History) 1:34:00

9M ago1:34:00

1:34:00

In this newest special episode of History Impossible, I sat down to discuss a super-light topic, one not fraught with intense controversy and tragedy, with my long time friend and podcasting comrade, CJ Killmer, of the Dangerous History Podcast: that is, the topic of eugenics! More accurately, we discussed a particular man in that noteworthy field …

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The Yasuke Conspiracy (w/ Sebastian Major of Our Fake History) 1:53:46

9M ago1:53:46

1:53:46

To say historians can be pedantic is like saying water is wet. To say gamers and gaming commentators can be pedantic is yet somehow even more of an obvious understatement. So what happens when these two communities clash and/or blend? You get what we could charitably call the Yasuke Conspiracy. As many gamers likely know by now, the insanely popula…

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Why Hajj Amin Matters 37:25

10M ago37:25

37:25

The following is the audio version of the recent essay addendum to the most recent episode of History Impossible, “The German Voice of Islam.” Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read and listen and, when at all possible, support my work. Please consider becoming a patron or paid subscriber to History Impossible at whatever level you fe…

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Episode 260 - John Jensen's Christian Anarchism 1:07:56

10M ago1:07:56

1:07:56

Episode 260 - John Jensen's Christian Anarchism

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A Velvet Jihad 1:33:36

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Episode 272 - The Viktor Frankl Ritual 1:07:13

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Trump 2.0: Making America Progressive Again 57:43

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Episode 271 - Socrates' Wisdom 51:25

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Episode 270 - Extreme Wilderness Adventures with Stephan Kesting 1:22:47

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Diplomacy on the Eastern Border (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons, Jack Johannson, & Zack Twamley) 2:53:19

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The Slave Who Would Be a Spy (w/ Isaac Willour) 1:00:49

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The Spirit of the American West (w/ David McGarry) 1:41:48

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Episode 269 - The Roots of Violence 1:05:10

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A Bug in the Software 56:05

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Mother's Wrath, Mankind's Bargain (The Los Angeles Fires of 2025) 1:50:57

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Episode 268 - Jimi Hendrix, Taoism and Luigi Mangione 1:04:24

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Episode 267 - James Pieratt (Wild Hunt Conditioning) 1:08:30

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Episode 266 - Creating Beauty in the Midst of Horror 59:07

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A Revulsion of Feeling: The Arab Revolt and Collective Identity 1:31:15

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Episode 265 - The Musashi Experience with Nic Gregoriades 1:05:45

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The Question of Genocide 1:04:57

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The Original Donald Trump (Throwback Thursday!) 2:48:00

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Episode 264 - The 'Yes And...' Approach 1:05:05

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Episode 263 - Guilt by Association: A Chat with Alexander Von Sternberg 1:21:24

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Revisionism and Misplaced Empathy: The Darryl Cooper - Tucker Carlson Situation 1:24:47

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Episode 262 - Art, Travel and Life with Yoshino 1:09:15

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Episode 261 - Should I Move to Italy? 57:46

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The Elites Who Would Play God (w/ CJ Killmer of Dangerous History) 1:34:00

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The Yasuke Conspiracy (w/ Sebastian Major of Our Fake History) 1:53:46

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Why Hajj Amin Matters 37:25

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Episode 260 - John Jensen's Christian Anarchism 1:07:56