What the Commies Really Wanted
During the Cold War it was taken for granted that Soviet foreign policy was driven by the tenets of Marxism-Leninism toward imperial expansion and subversion. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and even Go...
27 Jun 20241h 7min
Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
Why are Palestinians stateless more than 75 years after the founding of a Jewish state in the same land? Why have international law and the rules-based order established after 1945 failed the Palestin...
25 Jun 202445min
Myanmar on the Brink
Since achieving its independence in 1948, Burma – now Myanmar – has spent decades under military rule, its people joining ethnic armies at war with the state. With the current war now in its fourth ye...
20 Jun 202448min
Election of 1932
This is the fourth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Elections of 1860 and 1864, was published on May 7. When Franklin Delan...
17 Jun 202435min
Do Not Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
American public opinion is increasingly intolerant of migrants, given the record numbers who have illegally crossed the southern border over the past several years. The U.S. immigration system is brok...
13 Jun 202445min
Trumpism After the Conviction
Future historians who write about the 2024 campaign might puzzle over how the Republican nominee, four years earlier, egged on a mob to attack Congress, the futile culmination of a months-long scheme ...
11 Jun 202441min
Memories of the Liberation (D-Day at 80)
Note: Kate Clarke Lemay is now the Director of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center at the Army War College. Original show notes: Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Norm...
6 Jun 20241h 6min
Saddam And His American Friends
Before U.S. leaders would compare Saddam Hussein to Hitler, they cynically helped him in his war against Iran. Before the U.S. would wage a decades-long war on Iraq in the form of sanctions and a pre-...
4 Jun 20241h 6min
