Historians vs. Trump, Revisited
This is the follow-up episode to the one published on Feb. 6 previewing the oral arguments in the Colorado ballot case, Trump v. Anderson. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not disqualify ...
12 Mar 202450min
After Putin
In power for nearly a quarter century, Vladimir Putin, 71, is a modern-day tsar -- an autocrat largely unaccountable to his people -- except he has no known successor. Whether the Russian president ru...
7 Mar 202444min
Election of 1980
Hey, 2024 is an election year! This is the first episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The moralistic incumbent expressed anguish over soulless materialism. ...
4 Mar 20241h 21min
Who Was Alexei Navalny?
Alexei Navalny was Russia's most prominent and effective opposition leader, an anti-corruption crusader and democratic politician who entered public life as a provocative blogger around the same time ...
29 Feb 202438min
Strangelove at 60
In early 1964, Stanley Kubrick's black comedy Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb premiered in theaters. Sixty years later, it remains one of Kubrick's greatest films...
27 Feb 202450min
Two Years of War w/ Michael Kimmage and Mark Galeotti
In every war, there is a battle over its origins. In this episode, historians Michael Kimmage and Mark Galeotti discuss Kimmage's new book, "Collisions," which seeks to explain why the excessive optim...
22 Feb 20241h 4min
Two Years of War w/ Yaroslav Trofimov
When Russian shells began raining on Ukrainian cities and Russian tanks smashed across the border toward Kyiv on Feb. 24, 2022, much of the world wrote off Ukraine. But Vladimir Putin's war of aggress...
20 Feb 202446min
Rwanda's Genocide, 30 Years On
Subscribe for early access, ad-free listening, and bonus content! In 1994 Rwanda was scarred by an organized campaign of mass carnage perpetrated by the Hutu majority against the Tutsi minority and mo...
15 Feb 202455min
