Podcast Episodes
Back to Search2023 Year in Review, Part 1
This is the first of two episodes looking back on the major events and ideas of 2023.
What events this year compelled you to reassess the past? What …
2 years, 3 months ago
Bonus Ep! Ukraine War Update w/ Michael Kimmage
This conversation was first published in a Washington Times video on Dec. 20 available at washingtontimes.com.
Catholic University historian Michael …
2 years, 3 months ago
Collapse of the USSR, Revisited
As Americans opened their Christmas gifts 32 years ago, the beleaguered president of a superpower on the other side of the world endured a unique hum…
2 years, 3 months ago
Saving Napoleon
Audio excerpts of Napoleon courtesy Sony Pictures and Apple Original Films.
Many historians have skewered Ridley Scott's Napoleon for inaccuracies an…
2 years, 3 months ago
Recovering Rustin
Bayard Rustin was born a Quaker in Pennsylvania and became an advocate of non-violent resistance in the civil rights movement. He was openly gay at a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ordinary Men / Extraordinary Crimes
The Israel-Hamas war has provoked an angry, bitter debate over the meaning of genocide as partisans on both sides of the conflict invoke the memory o…
2 years, 4 months ago
From Beirut to Gaza City
Urban warfare, an appalling civilian death toll, and international outcry: Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza shares parallels with its failed invasi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Diplomat / Intellectual / War Criminal?
The death of Henry Kissinger at 100 reignited the debate over the foreign policy record of a man who embodied U.S. power and influence. Revered or de…
2 years, 4 months ago
What If? Slavery Without the Civil War
This is the second episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. The first, published in September, asked whet…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Cold War Liberals
If the era of Trump has brought on a crisis of liberalism, liberals have failed to fully reckon with their "failure to establish a liberal society at…
2 years, 4 months ago