Podcast Episodes

The Plumbers

Note: Audio clips of "White House Plumbers" are courtesy HBO. Audio of the "smoking gun" Nixon tape is from millercenter.org.

Will Americans ever tir…

2 years, 10 months ago

After D-Day

June 6, 1944 continues to hold a central place in Americans' popular memory of the Second World War. It is synonymous with D-Day, the Allied invasion…

2 years, 10 months ago

From Grozny to Bakhmut

The images of Bakhmut, the latest Ukrainian city to be left in ruins after months of Russian shelling, evoke memories of the Second World War. Every …

2 years, 10 months ago

Constitutional Myth

Americans – many of them, anyway – revere the Constitution and the men who framed it. We can recite its preamble with its aim of securing "the blessi…

2 years, 10 months ago

Kissinger and Cambodia

Henry Kissinger, sage of American diplomats, is celebrating his milestone 100th birthday on May 27. To some, Kissinger is the embodiment of realpolit…

2 years, 10 months ago

King's Socialism

Martin Luther King Jr. had serious problems with American capitalism. He considered himself more of a democratic socialist as he demanded the federal…

2 years, 10 months ago

Multipolarity

American allies in the Indo-Pacific are in a difficult spot. They have economic ties to Beijing, but China's rising influence and coercive methods un…

2 years, 10 months ago

From Saddam to the Sanctions

This is the fourth episode in a multiple-part series marking the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, which began on March 20, 2003. Earlier episodes we…

2 years, 11 months ago

Khrushchev's Gamble, Putin's Hubris

Russian president Vladimir Putin, who sees himself as an astute student of history, once more exploited his nation's victory over Nazi Germany to jus…

2 years, 11 months ago

Section 4

Can the 14th Amendment save the U.S. from defaulting on its debts if Congress fails to raise the federal government's borrowing limit? That may depen…

2 years, 11 months ago