Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJack Cheevers, "Kennedy’s Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent into Vietnam" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Episode 1626
Based on a decade of research and writing, enriched by eyewitness interviews and revealing documents obtained through dozens of freedom of informatio…
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Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, "War and Community in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 1628
Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, War and Community in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbaria…
6 months ago
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Episode 1627
Stephen Sims’ New Atlantis essay examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. He argues t…
6 months ago
Douglas Waller, "The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner" (Penguin, 2026)
Episode 338
Frank Wisner was one of the most powerful men in 1950s Washington, though few knew it. Reporting directly to senior U.S. officials--his work largely …
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Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation" (Henry Holt, 2025)
Episode 337
A landmark biography of Charles Sumner, the unsung hero of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionis…
6 months ago
Mia Martin Hobbs and Joan Beaumont, "Challenging Anzac: Stories That Don't Fit the Legend" (NewSouth, 2026)
Episode 101
Challenging Anzac: Stories that don’t fit the legend Edited by Mia Martin Hobbs, Carolyn Holbrook,
The Anzac legend has shaped Australia’s national i…
6 months ago
Jan Cress Dondi, "The Navigator's Letter" (Union Square, 2026)
Episode 336
One of the riskiest air raids of World War II occurred on August 1, 1943, over the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania--Nazi Germany's primary fuel source…
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Drew Flanagan, "From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955" (LSU Press, 2026)
Episode 170
After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a defeated Germany. Within t…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
Episode 182
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny interviews Jacob Siegel, writer, Army veteran, and author of The Informati…
6 months, 1 week ago
Jim Downs, "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 1619
Jim Downs’ most recent book is Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine. Professor Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-Nati…
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