Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNever-Ending Conflict: Israel and the Palestinians
The fourth war between Israel and Hamas since the latter took power in Gaza 14 years ago killed hundreds of people, mostly Palestinians, and left unr…
5 years ago
The Democrats' Comeback
In the quarter century after the Second World War, New Deal liberalism was riding high. But after LBJ's Great Society was sacrificed on the altar of …
5 years ago
The 1619 Project and America's Schools
An effort by Republican lawmakers in several states to prohibit the teaching of the New York Times' 1619 Project in public schools has reignited the …
5 years ago
Checking On Democracy
Is the liberal democratic order in real trouble? From Donald Trump's ongoing campaign to discredit the results of the 2020 election, to the emergence…
5 years ago
Facebook vs. Free Speech
Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube -- the digital behemoths have more unchecked power and technological capability to silence speech than any governm…
5 years ago
Liz Cheney and the Future of Conservatism
Will Trumpism devour conservatism? As House GOP leaders oust Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership post for defying ex-Pres. Donald Trump's bogus elect…
5 years ago
Going Deeper on Immigration
Maybe we are getting the "border crisis" all wrong. If you step away from the daily headlines and avert your eyes from the border for a moment, you w…
5 years ago
Biden, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide
When President Biden became the first U.S. president to recognize the Armenian genocide, the massacres and deportations that took place in the Ottoma…
5 years ago
McCarthyism Redux
Like McCarthyism during the Red Scare of the 1950s, ex-President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" movement seeks to vilify powerful, internal enemies …
5 years, 1 month ago
The American Way of War
Do U.S. wars ever end? Although President Biden has announced the final withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the use of military f…
5 years, 1 month ago