Aficionado of Exits
Both Donald Trump and Joseph Biden claimed they were indispensable to their party's electoral prospects, which both men attached to the very fate of our republic. "I alone can fix it," Trump once thun...
25 Jul 202436min
Open Convention
With President Joe Biden out of the race, prominent Democrats and donors are coalescing around Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, making it unlikely there will be a truly open nominating c...
23 Jul 202444min
Traditions of Violence
This is the second of two podcast episodes this week dealing with the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump and the causes and effects of political violence in America. Political...
18 Jul 202443min
The Madness of Political Violence
This is the first of two podcast episodes this week dealing with the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump and the causes and effects of political violence in America. Historian ...
15 Jul 202444min
Election of 2000
This is the fifth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Election of 1932, was published on June 17. George W. Bush's historicall...
11 Jul 202452min
Europe's Turbulent Politics
Far-right political movements achieved power in Europe a century ago, wrecking parliamentary democracies and instigating wars of conquest and genocide. Today's far-right populists are not the same as ...
9 Jul 202438min
What If? The British Won the Revolutionary War?
This is the third episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. The most recent installment (Nov. 30, 2023) examined what would have happened to slavery in Amer...
4 Jul 202457min
The Chennault Affair
The last time an incumbent president withdrew from a reelection campaign was 1968. On March 31, under immense stress from the failure of his Vietnam War policy, President Lyndon Johnson told a nationa...
2 Jul 20241h 8min
