Keynes Vs Hayek
The Great Depression isn’t just history. It’s the moment we keep dragging into today’s fights about stimulus, deficits, inflation, and what government should do when millions can’t find work. We sit d...
11 Mai 23min
How 1964 And 1965 Remade Public Life And The Ballot
A “test” to vote that has nothing to do with reading, a restaurant that can legally turn you away, a ballot box protected on paper but blocked in real life. The early 1960s weren’t just tense, they we...
8 Mai 11min
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
Eisenhower doesn’t leave office with a sentimental goodbye. He leaves with a warning: a free country can win a global struggle and still lose itself at home. We sit down with Dr. Beienberg to unpack D...
7 Mai 15min
Executive Order 9066 and the Korematsu Case
One signature from a president turned suspicion into policy and forced about 120,000 people to leave their homes. We sit down with Dr. Stephen Knott, emeritus professor of national security affairs an...
6 Mai 13min
How America Entered World War II
The United States doesn’t wake up one morning and “enter World War II.” It inches, argues, legislates, and then gets jolted into a decision that reshapes the modern world. We walk through 1941 as a ch...
5 Mai 8min
How Fireside Chats Built Trust During The Great Depression
The most powerful political tool FDR wielded wasn’t a bill or a bureaucratic agency, it was a voice coming through the radio at the right moment. We’re joined again by Professor Weinberg to unpack how...
4 Mai 26min
Huey Long, Every Man a King
He wasn’t a president, but he may be the most dangerous almost-president in modern American political history. We’re joined by Sean Beienberg to unravel Huey Long’s rise in Louisiana and the seductiv...
4 Mai 22min
FDR Before The New Deal
Franklin Roosevelt is usually introduced as the New Deal president, but we wanted to rewind the tape and look at the receipts. With Dr. Sean Beienberg joining us, we walk through FDR’s pre-1933 record...
1 Mai 26min
