Scott Horton @ Lex Fridman: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex

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Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCKiEJpwf4
{Lex Fridman | 24 August 2025}

Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, and for the past three decades a staunch critic of U.S. military interventionism.

EPISODE LINKS:
Supplemental Notes & Corrections: https://lexfridman.com/scott-horton-links-and-notes/
Scott's X: https://x.com/scotthortonshow
Scott Horton Show: https://www.youtube.com/@scotthortonshow
Provoked Show: https://www.youtube.com/@Provoked_Show
Scott's Substack: https://scotthortonshow.com/
Scott's Website: https://scotthorton.org/
Scott's Books: https://amzn.to/3T9Qg7y
Libertarian Institute: https://libertarianinstitute.org/
Antiwar.com: https://antiwar.com/

OUTLINE:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:45 - From the Cold War to the War on Terror
0:53:43 - Iraq War 1
1:21:48 - Bin Laden
2:21:09 - Afghanistan War
2:36:05 - Iraq War 2
3:02:30 - Military Industrial Complex
3:41:56 - Scott's life story
4:11:45 - Iraq War 2 (continued)
5:03:14 - Syria
5:56:32 - Iraq War 3
6:08:59 - Somalia
6:14:26 - Iran
7:04:12 - Israel-Palestine
8:53:49 - Cold War 2.0

 

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https://x.com/CptAncapistan/status/1965533627652931953

Took a while, but finally got all the way through @scotthortonshow's 10-hour appearance on @lexfridman's podcast, and I think Lex has done the Mises-sphere libertarians (and anti-war advocates of any political leaning) an enormous service with this podcast.

And I have to say, I get why Lex is popular now. Just an amazing job of asking the right questions and digging into the right topics. I really could not have asked for better. As such, I will no longer be entertaining accusations of astroturfed popularity, gate-keeping, or deep state involvement. I don't know how anyone could listen to even 1 hour of this podcast and still believe that Lex is somehow a plant put in place to control the counter-narrative. I never saw anyone back these claims up with anything more than basically "he's super popular and I don't get it so it must be fake". Well, I get why he's popular now, and I can't imagine why the war party would want anyone to help Scott put out the best possible 10-hour case against the foreign policy establishment that he could.

Lex is honest.
Lex is one of the good guys.
Not everything is an fn conspiracy.

 

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Scott Horton does great impression of AM talk radio host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vzgs5l2-wk
{Robert Murphy | 17 September 2025}

From his mammoth 10-hour interview on Lex Fridman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCKiEJpwf4 [see this post - OB]