Podcast Episodes

Do Not Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor

American public opinion is increasingly intolerant of migrants, given the record numbers who have illegally crossed the southern border over the past…

1 year, 10 months ago

Trumpism After the Conviction

Future historians who write about the 2024 campaign might puzzle over how the Republican nominee, four years earlier, egged on a mob to attack Congre…

1 year, 10 months ago

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, 10 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…

1 year, 10 months 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…

1 year, 10 months 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…

1 year, 10 months 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…

1 year, 10 months 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…

1 year, 10 months 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…

1 year, 10 months 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…

1 year, 11 months ago