Podcast Episodes

The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0

The theories of unrestrained executive power guiding the Trump administration's assault on the administrative state and its attitude toward the feder…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

What is Chinese Communism?

China is ruled by a Communist Party of 100 million members, a giant pyramid with President Xi Jinping and the Politburo at the top. Yet its economy, …

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Antony Beevor on the Unsettled Legacies of WWII

Historian Antony Beevor says the world today resembles the Second World War in one important respect: "For decades, it seemed as though the character…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

India and Pakistan's Forever War

For four days in early May, India and Pakistan were on the brink of another war over the contested Kashmir, the mountainous territory that has witnes…

10 months, 4 weeks ago

What Happened to the Palestinian Authority?

During the Palestinian people's darkest hour since 1948, as Israel seeks to displace Gazans and potentially annex the West Bank, the Palestinian lead…

11 months ago

Due Process? Executive Order 9066

President Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act during peacetime is unprecedented, a part of his larger effort to portray undocumented i…

11 months ago

Inside the Nazi Mind

Does history provide us with lessons, or does the past offer warnings about what might happen now based on human tendencies that transcend time and c…

11 months, 1 week ago

1775 Independence Days

The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution's opening battles came and went with little fanfare. Colonial militia engaged British regulars at Le…

11 months, 1 week ago

Defeat in Vietnam: Consequences

This is the final episode in a three-part series marking the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

America's humiliating defeat in Vietnam, punctuated by…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Defeat in Vietnam: Resistance

This is the second episode in a three-part series marking the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

The antiwar movement began on the campuses and explod…

11 months, 3 weeks ago