Podcast Episodes
Back to Search2024 Year in Review
Note: This episode was produced before the news of the passing of former president Jimmy Carter. The episode scheduled for this upcoming Friday, Jan.…
1 year, 5 months ago
Back in the USSR
The West celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union. "This is a victory for democracy and freedom. It's a victory for the moral force of our value,"…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Christmas Truce
Something remarkable happened as British, French, and German soldiers shivered in their trenches on Christmas Eve along a 20-mile-long stretch of the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Religious Right and Left: Archie Bunker to Donald Trump
Let's talk religion and politics as if we were on the set of All in the Family, the smash 1970s sitcom designed to expose the problems of racism, sex…
1 year, 5 months ago
Georgia Between the Kremlin and the West
Since emerging as an independent state in 1991, Georgia has struggled to establish its nationhood. "Joining 'the West' has driven Georgian elites' st…
1 year, 5 months ago
Goodbye Assad / Hello Who?
The fall of Bashar al-Assad marked the historic end of more than 50 years of cruel tyranny that began with his father Hafez, who took power in 1970. …
1 year, 5 months ago
The "New Economy"
Midway through his eighth year in office, President Bill Clinton kicked off a White House conference on the "new economy." The internet age was under…
1 year, 5 months ago
World War Ukraine
Thirty years ago, in early December 1994, at a security summit in Budapest, the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, and Ukraine signed a memorandu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Is It Genocide?
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for individual Israeli and Hamas leaders, charging them with crimes against humanity. The acc…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Crisis of Liberalism
After the election, there was a hurricane of postmortems attempting to explain why Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump. Eschewing small-bore analysis,…
1 year, 6 months ago