Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Albert Einstein’s rise to fame was not instantaneous and easy. Rather, Einstein’s celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. His grand ideas (ideas that would change physics forever) were formul...
18 Jul 201928min
The Forgotten Assassin – Sirhan Sirhan and the Killing of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1968 seemed like it should have been an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles’s famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night and sa...
16 Jul 201937min
Chief Executives in the Cockpit—When Presidents Take to the Skies
In this episode we look at all U.S. presidents who served as fighter pilots or in any sort of military combat role. We also look at the first president to fly (it was in a rinky-dink Wright Bros. flye...
11 Jul 201932min
George Mason: The Most Important Founding Father Nobody Remembers
If a list were constructed of the most important Virginians in American history, George Mason would appear near the top. His influence on public policy, the Revolution, and the Constitution was far gr...
9 Jul 201925min
Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 7
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6 Jul 201910min
Spies in the Ancient World, Part 2: On His Roman Emperor's Secret Service
In this episode we are looking at ancient Greek cryptography and the Roman frumentarii, a group of wheat sellers who turned into the empire's premier intelligence outfit in the second century. In the ...
4 Jul 201949min
Spies in the Ancient World, Part 1: How a Bronze-Age Tribe Infiltrated Jericho
Spycraft is as old as civilization and just as essential to running a government as taxes, roads, armies, or schools. Sun Tzu devoted an entire chapter to spy craft in his 2,600-year-old treatise The ...
2 Jul 201944min
Teaser: Rendezvous With Death, Part 6
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29 Jun 201910min
