Podcast Episodes

Memories of the Liberation (D-Day at 80)

Note: Kate Clarke Lemay is now the Director of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center at the Army War College.

Original show notes:

Today marks …

1 year, 11 months ago

Saddam And His American Friends

Before U.S. leaders would compare Saddam Hussein to Hitler, they cynically helped him in his war against Iran. Before the U.S. would wage a decades-l…

2 years ago

Last Gasp of the Lost Cause

Collective memory -- what our society chooses to remember, honor, or erase from our past -- is perpetually mediated. For generations Confederate stat…

2 years ago

Death of Raisi / Future of Iran

The death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has left a power vacuum to be filled in snap elections in less than 50 days. The death of the man once c…

2 years ago

Defeating Democracy, Searching For Fascism

In the United States and in capitals across the world, liberal democracy is under pressure. We are told that fascism is on the rise. Commentators rum…

2 years ago

The British Mandate

In an essay for Foreign Affairs, the Israeli historian Tom Segev argues that a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is impossible…

2 years ago

Special Relationship: Why the U.S. Chose Israel

President Joseph Biden's decision to pause bomb shipments to Israel over its planned invasion of Rafah provoked a curious charge from Republican legi…

2 years ago

Recovering Kennan

The American diplomat George Kennan was the architect of the Cold War "containment" policy toward the Soviet Union. Writing in the late 1940s, Kennan…

2 years ago

What Is Intifada?

Campus antiwar protests are disturbing some Jewish students, administrators, and politicians by chanting an Arabic word meaning uprising, intifada. S…

2 years ago

Elections of 1860 and 1864

This is the third episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Election of 1992, was…

2 years ago