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We explore ideas and practices once believed to be true but no longer. Each dead idea is explored in all its glorious eccentricity. For example, discover miasma, the theory that plague comes...
The Sacred Band of Thebes, comprised entirely of gay male lovers, was Ancient Greece’s original response to the gays in the military questio...
My city is on fire today. This is day four of the riots in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. And everyone aroun...
This episode goes out to all of you at home out there during this pandemic, but we want to dedicate it especially to listener Owyn in Toront...
Did you know America spawned its very own homegrown fascist movement in the 1930s? Yup. The Silver Legion's William Dudley Pelley was the or...
TRIGGER WARNING: Politics. Today we explore what characterized early 20th-century fascism, and then ask whether it's fair to call Trump fasc...
It's here! It's finally here! After a full year of development, our new show the History of Sex is here. Cruise on over to The History of Se...
It's another best of the best for you! This one has it all: romance, plunder, mimes - and it all ends in a bloodbath! This was our first mas...
We’re trying something new here on Dead Ideas. We have a sizeable back-catalog of episodes, many of which new listeners may never have heard...
When was the last time you put a city to the sword? It's not something we do much anymore today. But there was a day and age when it was qui...
What will Game of Thrones be remembered for? I would argue it's not its supposed character realism, nor it's moral ambiguity. Rather, it wil...
What's it like to make a podcast? Sam Hume of the new show Pax Britannica talks with me about all the ups and downs of podcasting. Check out...
The end is nigh! Or so they've been saying since the year 1000 A.D. Today, Neil Eckart of the podcast War and Conquest tells us about millen...
Last time we delved into the History of History Podcasting, and now we are giving you the full interview with none other than the host of Ha...
This is it: the first ever attempt at a history of our genre, history podcasting. I've interviewed nearly a dozen podcasters and spoke to do...
Now that you know ancient Rome fell just shy of an industrial revolution, why not enjoy a world where Rome does industrialize? That's Jordan...
Success is at hand for Andre's character Pyrrho. But it is a Pyrrhic victory, for after that we recount the history of the backward slide of...
Arriving at the Great Library of Alexandria, Andre's character Pyrrho of Pergamum searches for the secret plans for the floating statue. But...
So Roman tech was pretty surprising, but still more surprising is that all that was developed centuries earlier in the Hellenistic period. W...
So why didn't Rome undergo an industrial revolution? Today, we take a look at some of the contributing factors for 18th-century Britain and...
For our final series, we're doing the steam technology of the ancient world that died and had to be resurrected in 18th-century Europe. How...
Is the surface of Mars criss-crossed by lines so long and straight they can only be constructions of an advanced alien civilization? Many as...
In the early 20th century, the word "vampire" was used to mean something quite different: a female sexual predator. And no one struck more f...
What can the sex lives of Byzantines tell us about court eunuchs? Find out today in these sizzling chariot-cab confessions. Be sure to suppo...
Today, we're talking Vikings in Byzantium with special guest Robin Pierson of the History of Byzantium podcast. What were these big-bearded...
How awkward is it for the Roman Empire to not control Rome? Uh, yeah, this cannot stand. Anna's back today to finish the story of eunuch gen...
Today, Anna takes the lead with the story of the eunuch general Narses! In this episode, we get an overview of Emperor Justinian and Empress...
Happy anniversary! We're getting cranky today with our 5 biggest peeves of history podcasting - what we consistently get annoyingly wrong. W...
Did you know that Byzantine culture recognized three genders? This begins our new series on Byzantine court eunuchs, and today it's all abou...
Forget heroine chic. This is tuberculean chic! This episode, courtesy of Dig: A History Podcast, features a most peculiar fashion "look" ins...
The grand finale to our series is a tale chock full of no less than 19 berserkers, all villains. And just like the movie Suicide Squad, we'r...
We're joined today by the host of the Viking Age Podcast, Lee Accomondo. Together, we're turning back the clock to the early Viking Age toda...
We go down the rabbit hole today as we explore the possible deep origins of berserkers in initiatory cults and Indo-European wolf traditions...
We're continuing to explore the Viking world, and today we ask: did Viking women really fight? Were they truly badass? Be sure to support th...
Andre's character Snorri Ankle-grabber shows up at the Althing, the greatest assembly of Iceland, and attempts to convict his stepfather for...
Happy Father's Day, everybody. Today I'm telling stories of my father's side of the family. It's a tale of adventure, tragedy, murder, loss,...
Today we experience life as a berserker in medieval Iceland on the cusp of Christianization. In this roleplaying epsidoe, Andre faces some t...
Today we explore the Viking world of the berserkers, from the Rus to Scandinavia and Iceland, covering everything from longship warfare to r...
They were the howling, shield-biting badasses of the Viking Age! Who were these frightening fighters? What were they really like? We’re expl...
It's our first-ever dead fashion: the Reniassance trend of showing one boob! Believe it or not, that was an actual fashion among court ladie...
Technocracy isn't dead! Today we talk to a card-carrying modern technocrat, Justin Lazzara. How has the movement grown and changed? Find out...
What if the Technate succeeded? Today, we indulge in a bit of alternate history, constructing a timeline where North America joins into one...
It gets snarky today with snippets of articles from a 1937 Technocratic magazine, and it gets visionary with excerpts from Harold Loeb's vis...
Our new series is a 1930s vision of techno-topia! It's not only from the 30s, though - while long past its heyday, a small Technocracy movem...
Today we put Mohist principles to the test. Andre's character returns to his home province and is forced to face complicated challenges of f...
Train with the Mohists! This week is a roleplaying episode in which Andre's character experiences what life is like as a Mohist-in-training...
It's Valentine's Day, and this is a valentine to humanity, sort of. In honor of last week's Falcon Heavy Launch by SpaceX, we're reading a s...
I still haven't taken that damn city! We're continuing our Mohist military defense tactics mini-series in which I am attempting to take a ci...
The enemy is attacking - call the Mohists! Andre Sólo gives us the skinny on the military defense tactics for which the Mohists were so famo...
We have a very special episode today: the first ever not hosted by me! Join guest host Kelly Nussbaum and me (as co-host) as we talk about a...
How did the Mohists see the world differently in the Hundred Schools of Thought era? We find out today, as we explore their particular persp...