Podcast Episodes

Defeat in Vietnam: Origins

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

Is Vietnam still with us? Does this misbegotten Americ…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

Origins of a Trade War

Since the 1980s, Donald Trump has been railing against what he calls unfair trade with a focus on Japan and then China. Also during the '80s, Preside…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

What Is Antisemitism?

The Trump administration says it will deny entry to immigrants for "suspected antisemitic activity." It is attacking prestigious universities over th…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

From Atatürk to Erdoğan

A century after Kemal Atatürk galvanized the Turkish people and founded modern Turkey on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire -- and upon new principles o…

1 year ago

Appomattox

When did the Civil War end? April 1865? August 1866? April 1877? Historian Michael Vorenberg delves into why each of these dates, among others, might…

1 year ago

O No Canada! (McKinley-Trump Tariffs)

President Trump's "Liberation Day" unveiling of sweeping tariffs on just about everything imported into the United States pushed the world to the bri…

1 year ago

The JFK Files

Why was director Oliver Stone testifying on Capitol Hill today? After his 1991 film "JFK" reignited conspiracy theories about President Kennedy's ass…

1 year ago

Alien Enemies

Suspicious foreigners arrested without warrants. The suppression of free speech in the name of national security. Civil liberties shredded in a clima…

1 year ago

Enemies Lists

In late June 1973, former White House counsel John Dean delivered startling testimony before the congressional committee investigating Watergate: Ric…

1 year ago

5 Years After Covid

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak, months after it originated in China, a global pandemic. It soon infec…

1 year ago