podcast
Interviews with working historians about the Ottoman Empire and its neighbours, drawn straight from new monographs and dissertations — the political ecology of late Ottoman Kurdistan, breadwinner soldiers, astrologers and political authority, the embodied archives of the Armenian Genocide. An academic podcast in the best sense, with 300-plus episodes behind it.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
April 13, 2026
Experimental History on overlooked paths to impact, Dario Amodei's five-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, and Ethan Mollick on what just happened in AI.
March 30, 2026
Veritasium tells the story of antimatter's discovery, PBS Space Time asks if we can test quantum gravity, and Experimental History on why being serious matters.