# Then & Now: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-27, Then & Now has 556,000 subscribers, 42,400,578 total views, and 225 videos. It ranks #137,138 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Then & Now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Then & Now is “The Dystopian Consequences of A.I. Drone Warfare”, a long-form video published Oct 20, 2026.
- These are Then & Now’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jan 31, 2023 and Oct 20, 2026 (36 long-form videos and 12 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 76,852. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Hegel: A Complete Guide to History” (1,260,183 views, Aug 17, 2023). Least viewed: “Revolutions without Music” (3,035 views, Sep 17, 2026).
- Median length: 47:50 for 36 long-form videos; 1:17 for 12 Shorts.
- In this sample, Then & Now’s consecutive uploads were a median of 26 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 91 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [The Dystopian Consequences of A.I. Drone Warfare](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/dSHunwILLdo/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 45,678 | 1:25:34 | - |
| [Revolutions without Music](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/COKDaQYb3N4/) | 2026-09-17 | Short | 3,035 | 1:48 | - |
| [Revolutions, mapped](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/rkdJ9SVGIg0/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 201,085 | 1:15:01 | 3.29x |
| [Then & Now HEAT DEATH - Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and more.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/OGMgUU7pkLg/) | 2026-09-10 | Short | 3,511 | 1:54 | - |
| [The Fall of MAGA & the Rise of American Fascism](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/ncpvlpc63ow/) | 2026-07-20 | Long-form | 61,090 | 45:01 | - |
| [How Fascists REALLY Take Power](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/oAsngOApCsg/) | 2026-06-19 | Short | 10,631 | 3:00 | - |
| [The Nazi Economy was a DISASTER](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/m1Xhdm2HVdg/) | 2026-06-10 | Short | 3,614 | 2:08 | - |
| [How to DESTROY Fascist Talking Points](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/5lO2xlsQBxU/) | 2026-06-03 | Short | 9,341 | 2:57 | - |
| [Why Fascism Fails](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/QXtpGwugcB0/) | 2026-05-18 | Long-form | 164,562 | 1:45:15 | 2.78x |
| [Authoritarianism, mapped & ranked](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/FN81Pdu4cPg/) | 2026-03-31 | Long-form | 22,903 | 38:00 | - |
| [The Fascist Ideal: What if Fascists Won?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/ztwiSEoRyQU/) | 2026-03-02 | Long-form | 131,722 | 58:28 | 2.07x |
| [The Rise of the Authoritarian-Curious](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/D68vqqtBVL0/) | 2026-02-09 | Long-form | 22,711 | 10:14 | - |
| [How to Make a Fascist](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/yamV8VAPi0o/) | 2025-12-22 | Long-form | 380,443 | 3:58:28 | 4.7x |
| [The Rise of the 'Authoritarian-Curious'](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/rg8BJQyWj6E/) | 2025-12-08 | Short | 4,743 | 1:10 | - |
| [We still don't understand the 20th century...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/zYurRXQQZTg/) | 2025-11-22 | Long-form | 57,136 | 15:46 | - |
| [Dreams Beyond the Algorithm](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/1nyXb4wCg_Y/) | 2025-11-10 | Long-form | 46,677 | 1:26:33 | - |
| [BURNOUT: The Complete Guide to an Exhausted World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/_fV5JF5Hf68/) | 2025-10-14 | Long-form | 61,266 | 1:28:33 | - |
| [The End of the End of History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/2iakO8KBxrE/) | 2025-09-01 | Long-form | 95,733 | 49:51 | - |
| [Slop-Psychology](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/ts7mnHhd8L0/) | 2025-08-07 | Long-form | 56,821 | 40:31 | - |
| [how the Deep State really works](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/LIkTt66OmUg/) | 2025-06-16 | Long-form | 212,098 | 1:19:54 | 0.94x |
| [The Death of Woke Grift](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/xgEvL_afVMA/) | 2025-05-15 | Long-form | 65,990 | 39:37 | - |
| [When the People took on Wall Street](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/ibumHasragw/) | 2025-04-30 | Short | 5,668 | 1:25 | - |
| [The Rise of Global Populism](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/SZL-GiV1sCE/) | 2025-04-10 | Long-form | 107,378 | 1:25:06 | - |
| [Get the Then & Now podcast!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/Br1q8WZ9rck/) | 2025-03-16 | Short | 3,178 | 0:47 | - |
| [Monopoly World: Oligarchy & Authoritarianism](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/JxNk7Tt6RG4/) | 2025-02-21 | Long-form | 237,211 | 1:25:14 | 0.79x |
| [How Capitalists Conquered the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/F_nefR99g0U/) | 2024-12-14 | Long-form | 341,880 | 5:11:11 | 1.13x |
| [An Anti-Establishment Left](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/Psz_HDd0aF0/) | 2024-12-03 | Short | 6,231 | 1:03 | - |
| [Marx: A Complete Guide to Capitalism](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/0bmX0hZoiJM/) | 2024-10-09 | Long-form | 1,139,496 | 2:14:06 | 3.55x |
| [The Rise and Fall of the Mainstream Media](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/-iwOTyv1gyY/) | 2024-08-01 | Long-form | 377,554 | 2:13:50 | 1.57x |
| [How AI was Stolen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/BQTXv5jm6s4/) | 2024-05-02 | Long-form | 1,133,407 | 3:00:14 | 6.77x |
| [The Future of Then & Now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/vAzMskJIvnA/) | 2024-04-17 | Short | 11,072 | 0:52 | - |
| [The Real Harm of Social Media](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/UtKmjGzRUb4/) | 2024-03-07 | Long-form | 52,030 | 30:06 | - |
| [Why We're So Self-Obsessed](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/Eh4J_t8p60w/) | 2024-01-24 | Long-form | 87,713 | 16:20 | - |
| [The Fall of Russell Brand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/yr5e38RznKY/) | 2023-12-12 | Long-form | 395,311 | 1:18:09 | 1.98x |
| [Tomorrow: CONSPIRACY: The Fall of Russell Brand](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/TBKbAKveb2Q/) | 2023-12-11 | Short | 5,572 | 0:33 | - |
| [The Origins of the Israel/Palestine Conflict](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/OdENyo4HvX4/) | 2023-11-09 | Long-form | 263,380 | 30:35 | 1.31x |
| [Does History Progress?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/o4rU6HkHCaI/) | 2023-10-21 | Long-form | 118,692 | 41:37 | 0.59x |
| [Can History Decline?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/Ou7DpUpqoNQ/) | 2023-09-22 | Long-form | 216,382 | 46:38 | 1.08x |
| [Hegel: A Complete Guide to History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/w85nGQ_KUgE/) | 2023-08-17 | Long-form | 1,260,183 | 2:04:06 | 5.05x |
| [Hegel: The Movie?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/-a36zcpWR7U/) | 2023-08-12 | Short | 11,954 | 0:37 | - |
| [How Socrates Beat Addictions](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/LFYRO3DKWfg/) | 2023-07-24 | Long-form | 58,038 | 14:18 | - |
| [How Switzerland Changed the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/j537acWOhsY/) | 2023-06-26 | Long-form | 117,854 | 40:59 | 0.64x |
| [Why Culture Wars Matter](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/g4BZ81zasOo/) | 2023-06-05 | Long-form | 183,247 | 21:07 | 0.74x |
| [What Red Pill Philosophy Gets Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/LS-hOpY-bFY/) | 2023-05-10 | Long-form | 337,133 | 39:22 | 1.04x |
| [Touch Grass: A Philosophy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/BSnZNXkMflg/) | 2023-04-14 | Long-form | 60,924 | 22:24 | - |
| [Stoicism's Major Flaw](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/MuLZYg2UFK8/) | 2023-03-21 | Long-form | 308,873 | 49:02 | 1.25x |
| [How New Addictions are Destroying Us](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/AdHOXKLgGUY/) | 2023-02-23 | Long-form | 1,103,397 | 36:50 | 6.12x |
| [How Big Tech is Ruining Your Attention](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thennow/videos/iBHmKMXh2VQ/) | 2023-01-31 | Long-form | 176,839 | 27:58 | 1.27x |

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