America's Longest War (No, not Afghanistan)
In the summer of 1971 President Richard Nixon declared "drug use public enemy number one," signaling the dramatic escalation of punitive measures against users, peddlers, and makers of narcotics at ho...
28 Sep 202133min
Forgetting the Holocaust
Is it possible for society to forget the Holocaust? As the war during which 6 million European Jews were murdered slowly recedes into history, survivors and their death-camp liberators are dying off. ...
23 Sep 202139min
Who Was Osama bin Laden?
Although no one in the United States could have realized it at the time, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 was a seminal moment in the life of a young, devout Sunni Muslim whose father w...
21 Sep 202151min
Paging General Washington
When Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan tweeted "Vaccine mandates are un-American," he immediately received a Twitter history lesson. Commenters pointed out that none other than General George Washington of ...
16 Sep 202134min
The Supremes
A slew of unsigned opinions from the Supreme Court, made from the "shadow docket" outside its normal procedures, have refocused Americans' attention on the importance of (and controversies over) whom ...
14 Sep 202135min
The Hubris of Post-9/11 Foreign Policy
This is the final part of a three-episode series examining the post-9/11 world for the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks. At least 335,000 civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and...
9 Sep 202147min
The Law of Unintended Consequences
This is the second part of a three-episode series examining the post-9/11 world for the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks. The law of unintended consequences may explain why jihadists...
7 Sep 202134min
Forever War, But No Peace Movement
This is the first part of a three-episode series examining the post-9/11 world for the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks. In 1915 one of the most popular songs in America was a somber...
2 Sep 202128min
