Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBiden, Khashoggi, and the messy U.S.-Saudi marriage
What's more important to U.S. foreign policy, human rights or oil and regional alliances? What should take precedence, morality or realpolitik? Presi…
5 years, 2 months ago
COVID-19, One Year Later
One year after the rhythms of daily life were upended by the unchecked spread of an invisible, deadly pathogen, Americans have a degree of optimism t…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ending the Forever War in Afghanistan
The U.S. faces a May 1 deadline to withdraw its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan, nearly 20 years after invading to avenge the 9/11 terrorist strik…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Future of the GOP
If the Reagan era is long over, and if the Tea Party has had its day, the makeup of a post-Trump Republican Party, as well as the broader conservativ…
5 years, 2 months ago
Lincoln and the Woke Left
Abraham Lincoln was neither a faultless hero nor an irredeemable white supremacist. Remembered as the Great Emancipator who saved the Union, Lincoln'…
5 years, 2 months ago
America and Iran
President Biden's decision to order airstrikes against targets in Syria, as a warning to Iran against backing militias in Iraq, served Americans an i…
5 years, 3 months ago
Crisis in Journalism
More news and information is available at your fingertips than ever before, but journalism is in serious trouble. The problems run deeper than percei…
5 years, 3 months ago
Understanding Fascism
What is fascism? The word brings to mind Mussolini, Hitler, and the catastrophes of the twentieth century. Nowadays, fascism -- like socialism -- is …
5 years, 3 months ago
QAnon and Conspiracy Theories in American Politics
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis joins the podcast to talk about conspiratorial thinking in American politics, from George Washington to…
5 years, 3 months ago
Trump, Twitter, and free speech in the 21st century
To paraphrase Noam Chomsky, you are either for free speech or you are not. Few issues in American culture today stoke such controversy as free expres…
5 years, 3 months ago