American Purpose's Bookstack
By Richard Aldous
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Weekly conversations with authors of new and recent books.
Host Richard Aldous is a historian and professor at Bard College, New York, and the author of several books, including Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian; Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship; The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli.
For more about American Purpose, visit www.americanpurpose.com.
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Episode 140: David L. Roll on President Harry Truman
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May 03, 2024 |
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Episode 139: Nicholas Shakespeare on Ian Fleming
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Episode 138: Seth D. Kaplan on America’s Fragile Neighborhoods
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Episode 137: Leah Hunt-Hendrix on the Power of Solidarity
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Episode 136: Paul Starobin on the Russian Exiles
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Episode 135: Ian Buruma on the Relevance of Spinoza
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Episode 134: Maria Popova on Ukraine and Russia’s Diverging Paths
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Episode 133: Lorraine Daston on the History of Scientific Collaboration
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Episode 132: David Reynolds on Winston Churchill
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Episode 131: Joshua Green on the Populism of the Democratic Party
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Episode 130: Azam Ahmed on Mexico’s Violent Cartels
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Episode 129: Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Episode 128: Joseph S. Nye Jr. on Postwar America
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Episode 127: Ganesh Sitaraman on Helping Flying Soar
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Episode 126: Nikki Vargas on the Roads Taken
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Episode 125: Daniel Schulman on the Jewish Titans
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Episode 124: John Coates on the New Concentration of Financial Power
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Episode 123: Laurence Jurdem on TR and Henry Cabot Lodge
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Episode 122: Thomas Graham on Seeing Russia Clearly
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Episode 121: Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Episode 120: Katherine Turk on NOW’s Lesser-Known Feminists
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Episode 119: Alexandra Hudson on Civility
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Episode 118: Joseph Horowitz on the Art-Freedom Nexus
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Episode 117: Yascha Mounk on the False Promise of Identity Ideology
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Episode 116: Michael S. Roth on Loving Learning
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Episode 115: Timothy Garton Ash on What It Means to Be European
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Episode 114: Tara Isabella Burton on Self Creation across the Ages
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Episode 113: Yasmine El Rashidi on Egypt’s Fortunes
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Episode 112: Hugh Howey on the Silo Series
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Episode 111: Daniel Gordis on Israel at 75
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Episode 110: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman on the Moral Divide in U.S. Politics
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Episode 109: Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker on a New Age of Danger
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Episode 108: Brett Forrest on the Unusual Disappearance of an American FBI Source
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Episode 107: Christopher de Bellaigue on Making Flight Carbon-Friendly
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May 31, 2023 |
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Episode 106: Frank Costigliola on George Kennan
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May 24, 2023 |
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Episode 105: Kim Sherwood on Her Double O Novel
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May 17, 2023 |
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Episode 104: Blythe Roberson on Embracing the Open Road
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May 10, 2023 |
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Episode 103: Charles Dunst on Defeating the Dictators
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May 03, 2023 |
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Episode 102: Dana Sachs on Our Saviors at Sea
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Episode 101: Ian Buruma on Three Legendary Fakes
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Episode 100: Robert D. Kaplan on Inescapable Tragedy
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Episode 99: Meredith Bagby on A New Kind of Astronaut
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Episode 98: Derek Leebaert on FDR’s Circle of Four
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Episode 97: Adam Kirsch on Imagining Earth without Humans
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Episode 96: Van Jackson on America’s Paradoxical Role in Asia
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Episode 95: James E. Cronin on the Reinvention of the Liberal Democratic Order
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Episode 94: Shana Kushner Gadarian on Politics and the Pandemic
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Episode 93: Frank Dikötter on China’s Uneven Rise
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Episode 92: Tom Dunkel on the Germans Sabotaging the Third Reich
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Episode 91: Dan Akst on the WWII Pacifists Who Revolutionized Resistance
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Episode 90: John Lahr on How Arthur Miller Captured American Life
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Episode 89: William Inboden on How Reagan Kept the Cold War Cold
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Episode 88: Megan Walsh on China’s Lively Literary Scene
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Episode 87: Jacob Soll on the Ever-Changing Free Market
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Episode 86: John A. Farrell on Ted Kennedy’s Epic, Turbulent Life
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Episode 85: Gautam Mukunda on Choosing a Presidential Candidate
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Episode 84: Rita Katz on Internet-Age Terrorism
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Episode 83: Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges on Xi Jinping’s Hidden Story
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Episode 82: Cody Keenan on the Ten Days that Defined Obama's Presidency
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Episode 81: Giles Tremlett on Spain's Complicated Past
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Episode 80: Walter Russell Mead on the American-Israeli Relationship
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Episode 79: Eleanor Herman and the Demonization of Women in Power
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Episode 78: Francesca Tripodi on Right-Wing Narratives and their Internet Success
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Episode 77: Michael Mandelbaum on American Foreign Policy
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Episode 76: Mary Ziegler on the Anti-Abortion Movement
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Episode 75: Jonathan Pelson on China's dangerous domination of 5G
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Episode 74: Ezrachi and Stucke on Big Tech’s threat to innovation
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Episode 73: James Kirchick on the hidden history of gay Washington
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Episode 72: Thomas S. Kidd on Thomas Jefferson
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Episode 71: Aaron Friedberg on Getting China Wrong
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Episode 70: Lev Menand on the Federal Reserve
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Episode 69: Frederic C. Hof on Obama and Syria
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Episode 68: Nelly Lahoud on the bin Laden papers
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Episode 67: Jimmy Soni on PayPal's entrepreneurs
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May 20, 2022 |
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Episode 66: Zubok on the USSR's collapse
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May 16, 2022 |
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Episode 65: Matthew Continetti on American Conservatism
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May 06, 2022 |
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Episode 64: Christine Emba on sexual ethics
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May 03, 2022 |
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Episode 63: Garrett Graff's new Watergate history
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Episode 62: Lee Siegel on Why Argument Matters
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Episode 61: Guriev and Treisman on the tools of today's tyrants
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Episode 60: Christopher Smith on Ukraine’s Westward Evolution
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Episode 59: Chris Armstrong on our vital oceans
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Episode 58: Sebastian Mallaby on the venture capitalists
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Episode 57: Dwight Chapin on the Nixon White House
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Episode 56: A. J. Baime on Walter F. White
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Episode 55: Iain Dale and Alvin Felzenberg on our 45 Presidents
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Episode 54: Linda Hirshman on the abolition movement
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Episode 53: Peter Goodman on the billionaires and power
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Episode 52: Simms and Laderman on Hitler's American Gamble
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Episode 51: Bruce Ragsdale on Washington and slavery
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Episode 50: Roosevelt Montas on the Great Books' enduring value
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Episode 49: Joseph Horowitz on Black classical music
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Episode 48: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Episode 47: Brendan Borrell on the race to the vaccine
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Episode 46: Olivia Williams on the Savoy's glamorous tales
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Episode 45: Bruce Jones on naval supremacy and today’s geopolitics
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Episode 44: Fiona Hill on political dysfunction
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Episode 43: Sarotte on the post-Cold War stalemate
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Episode 42: Parag Khanna on societal upheaval
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and social mores
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Episode 40: Anne-Marie Slaughter on American renewal
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Episode 39: Harold James on political terminology
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Episode 38: H.R. McMaster on America's future battlegrounds
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Episode 37: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Afghanistan and State-Building
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Episode 36: Toby Harnden on the CIA's mission in Afghanistan
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Episode 35: Peter Hartcher on Australia's China Challenge
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Episode 34: Firmin DeBrabander on the Internet's Threat to Privacy
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Episode 33: Shawna Kay Rodenberg on Growing Up in Kentucky
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Episode 32: Gillian Tett's Anthropological Lens
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Episode 31: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Episode 30: Tevi Troy Looks at 70 Years of White House Intrigue
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Episode 29: Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Episode 28: Susan Eisenhower on How Ike Led
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Episode 27: Sean McMeekin's New Take on World War II
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May 21, 2021 |
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Episode 26: Olivette Otele on the history of African Europeans
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May 16, 2021 |
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Episode 25: Vernon Bogdanor on Britain's wavering connections to Europe
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May 07, 2021 |
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Episode 24: Stephen Walker on the First Journey Into Space
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Episode 23: Lawrence J. Haas on the Kennedys' Approach to the World
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Episode 22: Cristina Groeger on Education and Economic Disparity
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Episode 21: Paula Marantz Cohen on Shakespeare and Empathy
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Episode 20: Roya Hakakian's Immigrant Guide to America
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Episode 19: Ritchie Robertson on the Enlightenment, 1680-1790
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Episode 17: R. James Breiding on Small-Nation Success
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Episode 16: Emma Rothschild’s Generational Portrait of France
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Episode 15: Robert D. Kaplan on Humanitarian Bob Gersony
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Episode 14: Dominique Kirchner Reill on Interwar Fascism in Fiume
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Episode 13: Kevin Kosar on Congressional Dysfunction
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Episode 12: Larry Diamond on Saving Democracy
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Episode 11: Satia on Progress and Colonialism
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Episode 10: Ikenberry on Democracy
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Episode 9: Teasel Muir-Harmony on the Power of the Moon Landing
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Episode 8: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Episode 7: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on James A. Baker
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Episode 6: Ian Buruma on America's Special Relationship with the UK
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Episode 5: Edmund Fawcett on "Conservatism"
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Episode 4: Bookstack: Mark Salter on Senator John McCain’s Legacy
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Episode 3: Francis Fukuyama on the End of History and the Last Man
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Episode 2: Lindsay M. Chervinsky on the Origins of the Presidential Cabinet
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Charles A. Kupchan on 'Isolationism'
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Oct 16, 2020 |