"WhatifAlthist"
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 liste...
Recent Episodes
June 6, 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Bluepill
A historic shift occurred in the early 20th century when the West completely suspended any concept of reality or meaning. We adopted a new religion whose core belief was that it WASN'T a religion—agnostic liberalism that decl...
May 17, 2025
Explaining Jewish Civilization
After reading 3,000+ pages for this series, I've concluded the Jews represent history's most improbable civilization. Pennsylvania alone has almost as many people as all Jews worldwide (15 million), yet this tiny desert tribe...
May 13, 2025
Explaining Native Mexican Civilization
The once-mighty Maya civilization—with populations LARGER than today's Yucatan—faced apocalyptic collapse in the 10th century. As unprecedented drought persisted, desperate nobles demanded increasingly extreme blood sacrifice...
May 6, 2025
Explaining Every Jewish Migration | Expulsion
After reading THOUSANDS of pages on Jewish civilization, I've hit that "skeleton key" threshold where the soul of a civilization becomes clear. Like India, Judaism is an "asterisk civilization"—for every principle, there's a paradoxical counterpoint. The sheer historical complexity demands its own …
April 21, 2025
Was Churchill a Villain?
World events keep derailing my civilization series! As a professional historian, I felt compelled to address the recent Rogan/Cooper podcast pushing the revisionist claim that Churchill was the villain of WWII who caused mill...
March 17, 2025
WTF is the Left Even Doing?
Go to https://surfshark.com/whatdeal for 4 extra months of Surfshark Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: / @history102-qg5oj Link to my Twitter- https://twitter.com/whatifalthist?ref... Link to my Insta...
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