Podcast Episodes

Slavery and the Constitution: Kevin Roberts

This is the fifth installment in an occasional series focusing on slavery, the Constitution, and the current debate over the meaning of America's fou…

3 years, 9 months ago

The Problem With Prohibitions

For decades neither side in the abortion debate had to test its position in the democratic arena. The Supreme Court in 1973 had settled it: the Const…

3 years, 9 months ago

New World Order

On Sept. 11, 1990, President George Bush addressed a joint session of Congress to explain why the U.S. and its allies had sent their armies to the Ar…

3 years, 9 months ago

Our Wall of Separation

The U.S. Supreme Court is redrawing the boundary between church and state. In several major rulings, the court came down on the side of the free exer…

3 years, 10 months ago

What We Owe Grant

For most of the 137 years after his death in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant was remembered by historians as a failed president who led a hopelessly corrupt a…

3 years, 10 months ago

Forgotten Afghanistan

Nearly a year since the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, Americans' attention has long since drifted to other problems. Twenty years o…

3 years, 10 months ago

The Declinists

Is America in decline? We've lost wars in the Middle East and our international standing because of the disgrace of torture. Experts believe China wi…

3 years, 10 months ago

George Wallace Populism

George Wallace was a segregationist. He was a pro-union Democrat who railed against federal power and pointy-headed bureaucrats. He demanded law and …

3 years, 10 months ago

During his visit to the Middle East, President Biden explained the larger strategic purpose behind several agreements that he announced from Jeddah, …

3 years, 10 months ago

Phyllis Schlafly Prevails

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the ruling affirmed a half-century of political activism by conservative grassroots organizers, religi…

3 years, 10 months ago