Radio War Nerd

Guest: Devin Thomas O'Shea Originally recorded: June 10, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with author Devin Thomas O'Shea joins us to discuss his wild new book, the Veiled Prophet, about the secret society that ran St. Louis from the end of Reconstruction until the end of the Civil Rig

Guest: Devin Thomas O'Shea Recorded: June 10, 2026 Author Devin Thomas O'Shea joins us to discuss his wild new book, the Veiled Prophet, about the secret society that ran St. Louis from the end of Reconstruction until the end of the Civil Rights era, only to reappear as a scandal involving the ditz

Recorded: November 6, 2020 The War Nerd & Ames discuss the 2020 freakshow in the country that calls itself "the world's oldest democracy" — and look to the past and across the oceans to make some sense of this thing called election violence. First, we discuss the 2020 election... At 1:04:00 - the Wa

Recorded: October 28, 2019 The War Nerd looks back at the period after the US Civil War known as "Reconstruction" as a form of warfare — a dirty war, with all the ingredients. Why is there so little historical grasp of the Reconstruction as another form of warfare? Why don't we even know the casualt