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This week, the boys got together to talk about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not. Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully. Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US? https://jacobin.com/2026/03/ ...  Show more

This week's bonus episode is a close read of an article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion. Stay tuned for part two. Join the Reg ...  Show more

The Cold War was defined by the antagonism between two world superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. They relied on proxy wars, espionage, disinformation, assassinations and sabotage to undermine one another as part of a greater ideological battle between Western ...

The nonfiction book The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour is the first full narrative account of the Battle off Samar, which the book's author, James D. Hornfischer, calls the greatest upset in the history of na ...  Show more

In October 1962, a U-2 spy plane discovered Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba.  The subsequent 13 days were some of the tensest in human history.  The United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any point in the cold war.  It was only a last-minute co ...  Show more

📖 [Episode Transcripts in link below] ⬇️ Today, we embark on a journey into the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991—a dissolution marking the end of the Cold War era and giving rise to geopolitical shifts as well as the emergence of new nations. https://patreon.c ...  Show more