The Last Generation To Die?
Human civilization has been trying to defeat death forever. For the first time, we may be beginning to succeed. In labs from California to C...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsHistory
Context with Brad Harris
What led to the rise of the modern world? How have we made so much progress, and what are its consequences? What are humanity's best ideas? Join award-winning historian Brad Harris as he eng...
Context with Brad Harris Podcast Guide
Listen to Context with Brad Harris, a History podcast by Brad Harris. Stream 52 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
Show Topic
Browse this show under History podcasts.
Episodes
20 episodes are loaded now from a catalog of 52. More episodes can be opened from this page.
Discover More
Explore History podcasts, United States podcasts and English podcasts.
Episodes
20 of 52 episodesWhy Modern Civilization Runs on Trust — And Why It's Breaking
What makes it possible for billions of strangers to cooperate every day? Trust. Not the kind you have with friends and family. But an elabor...
The Invention of Uncertainty: How Probability Led to Artificial Intelligence
Where did probability come from? In this episode, Brad Harris explores how the invention of probability reshaped humanity's relationship wit...
When Greatness Becomes Bad
Why do civilizations turn against their own greatness, and what happens when they do? In this episode of Context with Brad Harris, we trace...
Layers of Meaning in Human History
Once survival is secured, a different question emerges: what is life for? In this episode of Context, we trace three enduring sources of hum...
Which Humanity Survives?
Human history is not a smooth story of progress. It is a story of bottlenecks—moments when pressure narrows the field, and when only certain...
The Great Silence
In this episode of Context , we explore the historical, philosophical, and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, drawing on examp...
Back from the Brink: How Societies Recover
Can fractured societies pull themselves back from the brink? Is America doomed to slide into another civil war? Or, are we already engaged i...
Good vs Evil
My thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and what his martyrdom reveals about truth versus lies, good versus evil, and the West's s...
The Wilderness at the Gates
For fifty years, we've been told that nature is fragile — a porcelain Eden, easily shattered by the slightest human pressure. But history te...
Phantom Worlds
History is full of phantom worlds—alternative technological paradigms that could have made everything turn out radically differently. Airshi...
The Machinery of Abundance
Modern life runs on hidden engine rooms—vast, intricate systems most of us never see. The Haber-Bosch process, which turns air into fertiliz...
When We Were Most Human
The modern world is defined by acceleration. But what if the most stable—and perhaps most human—version of ourselves existed long before civ...
The History of the Future
Why did we stop believing in utopia? By the late 19th century, many Americans had come to believe that the future would be defined by peace,...
The Meaning of War
Is it possible that war, for all its horror, once played a vital role in human flourishing—and that its disappearance has left a cultural an...
The Decline of the West: Oswald Spengler's Prophetic Vision
A century ago, Oswald Spengler warned that Western civilization was entering its final phase—not from war or catastrophe, but from cultural...
Narrative Warfare: How National Stories Shape Geopolitics
We often think global power is all about armies and technology. But what if the most decisive battles are fought through stories? In this ep...
PREVIEW: The Ghost in the Machine – Why We Believe in Robots
This is a short preview of a supporter-only bonus episode. In this episode, I explore the psychological and philosophical reasons we keep pr...
The Lost Virtue of Boredom: What We Lose When We're Never Still
We didn't cure boredom—we erased it. And in doing so, we may have lost one of the most quietly powerful forces in human development. In this...
The Bureaucracy vs. the Future: How the SEC Is Undermining American Innovation
The SEC was created to protect investors—but is it now protecting incumbents instead? In this episode of Context, we explore the rise of une...
Questions About Context with Brad Harris
Where can I listen to Context with Brad Harris episodes?
You can listen to Context with Brad Harris episodes online on Radio and Podcast. Open an episode and the site player will stream the available audio.
What is Context with Brad Harris about?
Context with Brad Harris is listed as a History show. The show language is listed as English.
How many Context with Brad Harris episodes are listed?
This page lists 52 episodes for Context with Brad Harris. More episodes are available from the View more button when the list continues.