WhatifAltHist is a podcast from Rudyard Lynch that looks to try to find the patterns in history and anthropology so as to predict the future and understand the dynamics that result in civilizations rising and falling. It began as an enormously popular alternate history channel with nearly 600K listeners and more than 100M views on YouTube. Rudyard Lynch also hosts the podcast History 102 with Erik Torenberg, which attempts to solidly explain pivotal historical events in depth in under an hour.
Topics covered: World History, Philosophy, Civilization, Culture
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Unlike the left's coherent ideology (blank slate humans + social engineering = utopia), the right isn't unified except in OPPOSING leftism. Taliban, neocons, libertarians, and religious fundamentalists share little beyond rejecting progress-worship. This episode explores four distinct conservative factions navigating modernity's central question: as humans gain godlike industrial powers, how much traditional wisdom do we preserve? The 200-year battle between machine-followers and those brave (or mad) enough to resist progress.
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Bibliography
The Ruling Classes by Gaetano Mosca
The Rise of the West by McNeil
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
Forgotten Continent by Michael Reid
American Nations by Colin Woodard
The WEIRDest people in the world by Joseph Heinrich
Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson
War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin
The Art of Not Being Governed by James Scott
Seeing like a State by James Scott
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
Democracy the God that Failed by Herman Hoppes
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
The Soul of France by Fernand Braudel
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
The Best of Times and Worst of Times by Michael Burleigh
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
Politics by Aristotle
The Pursuit of Power by McNeil
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley
Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
Dominion by Tom Holland
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Dictators by Richard Overy
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary
After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by Taggert Murphy
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Shadow World by Chandler
The Righteous Mind by Haidt
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
Islamo Leftism by Philippe Fabry
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
The Anthropology of the Left
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 • Duration 57:20
We know nothing about what we're closest to—like toxic relationships we can't recognize. Today's society is arguably history's most ABSURD, yet we refuse to study ourselves anthropologically. Instead, we embrace untested stupidities: blank slate theory, cultural equivalence, gender sameness. This series examines modern political tribes through the same objective lens we'd use on Amazonian cultures. First up: the origins, strengths, weaknesses and character of the left. The findings will shock you.
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Bibliography:
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Dominion by Tom Holland
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Strategy by Lawrence Freeman
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Unabomber’s Manifesto
The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
A History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Assemblywoman by Aristophanes
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
The Future is the Past Country by Edward Dutton
Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West’s by Edward Dutton
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
American Nations by Colin Woodard
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Behave by Sapolsky
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Coming to Our Senses by Morris German
Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines
A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris
Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
Curt Doolittle
Yuri Bezmonov
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis
The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman
The Managerial Class by James Burnham
The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
The Evolutionary Psychology behind Politics
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
Shadow World by Robert Chandler
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
A History of Manners by Norbert Elias
The Elephant in the Brain by Smiler
The Story of Work by Lucassen
The Fate of Empires by Hubbard
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Explaining Japanese Civilization
Saturday, May 25, 2024 • Duration 37:11
These civilization videos require INTENSE research—I've read six books just for this one! Unlike geopolitics videos where I can fit new info into existing frameworks, each civilization demands I reach a threshold of intuitive understanding. I know these aren't my most popular uploads, but they're my passion projects. My standard: I must be able to explain a civilization's essence in one sentence or after six drinks. Next up: Central Asia and Jewish civilization!
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Bibliography:
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by Taggart Murphy
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
Oriental Ways of Thinking by Nakamura
The Rice Economies by Francesca Bay
A History of Japan by Mason
The Japanese Mind by Roger Davies
Lineages of Modernity by Emmanuel Todd
The Origins of Ideology by Emmanuel Todd
A History of Civilizations by Fernando Braudel
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
Inside Asia by John Gunther
The Isles by Norman Davies
Behave by Sapolsky
Rise of the West by McNeil
The Soul of China by Amaury de Riencourt
Culture and Its Consequences by Geert Hofstader
The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker
The Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
A History of the Second World War by Liddell Hart
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley,
The Anthropology of Karens
Friday, May 24, 2024 • Duration 43:47
We study foreign cultures anthropologically but examine our own only through sociology—which has become 99% leftist propaganda. This means we're experiencing history's most rapid social changes with almost no honest intellectual analysis! This episode examines "Karens"—those entitled middle-aged women demanding managers—as symbols of a much larger, civilization-destroying trend. Like my previous deep-dives into "NPCs" and "incels," this seemingly silly internet meme actually reveals profound truths about Western society's decay.
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RECOMMENDED PODCAST: History 102 with WhatifAltHist
Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.
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Bibliography:
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Tree of Culture by Ralph Linton
The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel Francis
Europe Emerges by Reynolds
The Storm Before the Calm by Friedman
Why Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines
The Nice Guy's Guide to Dating by David Hamilton
Woke Racism by John McWhorter
The Origins of Woke by Hanania
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Coming Population Crash
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 • Duration 41:14
We've isolated ourselves from history, limiting our vocabulary to understand coming catastrophes. While we worship "progress," Earth has always been a blood-soaked video game map—with tribal warfare regularly killing 40% of males per generation. Population collapses occur roughly every 300 years, but the impending 21st century demographic crash will dwarf all previous ones. It's PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to avoid a world population at least 50% smaller by 2100.
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Every week, creator of WhatifAltHist Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg cover a major topic in history in depth -- in under an hour. This season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire, and more.
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Goodreads:
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
Empty Planet by Ibbitson and Bricker
Universe 25 by Calhoun
The History of the Arabs by Sir John Glubb
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary
The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
The Next 100 Years by George Friedman
The Tree of Culture by Ralph Linton
Who We Are and How we Got Here by David Reich
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Fate of Empires by Hubbard
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
The Renaissance by Will Durant
Rome by Greg Woolfe
The Human Tide by Paul Morland
The Rise of the West by Oswald Spengler
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
A Guide to Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
Plagues and Peoples by McNeil
A Manifesto for the New Right
Monday, May 13, 2024 • Duration 39:01
Our society believes in NOTHING—it's a soggy cardboard box that most prefer hiding inside rather than facing reality. As one of the few influencers shaping the emerging digital right's ideology, I'm offering principles for what I call the "not left" coalition. This 2.5-year project aims to give men something worth dying for as our meaningless, suicidally depressed culture continues melting down around us.
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Bibliography:
The Eye of Shiva by Amaury de Riencourt
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The WEIRDest people in the World by Joseph Heinrich
The Body Keeps the Score by Van Der Kolk
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Trauma and the Soul by Kalsched
The Inner World of Trauma by Kalsched
The Seven Types of Atheism by Gray
Secularity by Zahl
Ultimate Journey by Monroe
Far Journeys by Monroe
Journeys out of the Body by Monroe
The Sacred History by Mark Booth
Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal
Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
Behave by Sapolsky
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Dominion by Tom Holland
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Regime Change by Deneen
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Honor by Bowman
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Writings of Epictetus
Hoe God Becomes Real by Luhrmann
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku
The Secret of our Success by Joseph Heinrich
Seeing like a State by James Scott
War, What is it Good for by Ian Morris
The Soul of India by Amaury de Riencourt
The Soul of China by Amaury de Riencourt
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
The World After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
The Ascent of Humanity by Eisenstein
The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens
The Infinite Staircase by Moore
The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The Fate of Empires by Hubbard
The Righteous Mind by John Haidt
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris
The Philosophy of History by Hegel
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
The Web of Existence by Jeremy Lent
Trump and the Post Truth World by Ken Wilbur
Spiral Dynamics by Ken Wilbur
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
The Rise of the West by William McNeil
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
Religions of the World by Houston Smith
Hermeticism by Evola
A Message to Young Men
Thursday, May 2, 2024 • Duration 37:49
Western young men are treated as second-class citizens while society maintains a bizarre normality bias—pretending everything is fine during history's most rapidly changing period. After 10 years on YouTube watching my demographic get systematically pushed around, I can't stay silent. This personal message offers understanding and practical advice to help young men navigate a society that's openly hostile to them.
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Bibliography:
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
End Times by Peter Turchin
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
The End of History by Francis Fukuyama
Leviathan and its enemies by Samuel Francis
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Regime Change by Deneen
The Economics of Discontent by Michel Paul
After Liberalism by Gottfried
Woke Racism by McWhorter
The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
Century of the Self by Adam Curtis
The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman
Why Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jon Haidt
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Lineages of Modernity by Emmannuel Todd
Sex and Culture by JD Unwin
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
The Rise of the West by William McNeil
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Unabomber's Manifesto by Tad Kacznsdyzn
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
Explaining Russian Civilization
Friday, April 19, 2024 • Duration 39:54
Russia has been one of the most powerful countries in world history. The world's view is too focused on Russia today, but there are several assumptions you need to change about Russian civilization to understand the Russian mind and Russian civilization. Watch with maps at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0j2nT-zYHA
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Reading List:
A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia part 1 by David Christian
A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia part 2 by David Christian
Europe a History by Norman Davies
A History of Russia by Orlando Figes
The Rise of the West by William McNeil
Europe's Steppe Frontier 1500-1800 by William McNeil
The Story of the Russian Land by Alexander Dmitrevich Nechvolodov
Atrocities by Matthew White
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
The Dictators by Richard Overy
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
Disunited Nations by Peter Turchin
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
False Economy by Alan Beattie
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
The Reformation by Will Durant
The History of Western Warfare part 2 by JFC Fuller
Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
End Times by Peter Turchin
War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar
Forces of Change by Henry Hobhouse
Poland by Adam Zamoyski
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
The Origins of Ideology by Emmanuel Todd
The Coming Incel Revolution
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 • Duration 45:21
This is a controversial topic about the issues in modern dating that will cause a revolution in the next few years. Most people won't want to discuss the elephant in the room to deal with the massive shaming that comes along with it.
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Bibliography:
End Times by Peter Turchin
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
Eve's Rib by Robert Poole
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Sex and Civilization by JD Unwin
Lineages of Modernity by Emmanuel Todd
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West by Edward Dutton
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
Empty Planet by Darrell Bricker
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
Why Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines
The Book of Numbers by Aaron Clarey
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jon Haidt
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
Evil by Baumeister
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Why is Every Society Religious?
Monday, April 8, 2024 • Duration 38:20
Growing up with children's books portraying world religions as quaint cultural superstitions reveals our society's fatal blindness. Modernity can see religion's outer trappings but remains INCAPABLE of comprehending its soul. Throughout history, religion wasn't just important—it was EVERYTHING, propelling entire civilizations. This anthropological exploration explains why religious belief dominates every successful society and what catastrophic patterns emerge when cultures abandon the divine.
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