The Making of Modern Iran (Part 1)

The Making of Modern Iran (Part 1)

Breaking History dives into the paradox at the heart of modern Iran: How a nation born in revolt, from the tobacco protests of the 1890s to the 1979 Revolution, has time and again empowered autocrats in the name of democracy. This week we trace the cycles of reform and repression that still shape Iran today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?

Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?

As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, a quiet war is being waged over what the Declaration of Independence really means — with some on the new right dismissing it as globalist f...

27 Maj 1h 18min

A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies

A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies

Hi Breaking History listeners! My colleague Joe Nocera has launched a six part series about the Lindbergh kidnapping. Enjoy episode one here and then head on over to The Lindbergh Conspiracies feed fo...

19 Maj 43min

What the Founders Really Meant to Say

What the Founders Really Meant to Say

Robert Parkinson is a historian at SUNY Binghamton who has spent 25 years studying the American Revolutionary period. His new book, Tyrants and Rogues, arrives just in time for the 250th anniversary o...

13 Maj 57min

Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot

Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot

For tickets to our live recording with Jon Meacham in Philadelphia, click here and register. Use code TFP for a 20 percent discount.  Roald Dahl gave the world Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and...

7 Maj 49min

Eli Lake and David Rose: The UK Censorship Machine Eats Itself

Eli Lake and David Rose: The UK Censorship Machine Eats Itself

David Rose is the director of policy and research at the Free Speech Union (FSU), a UK-based nonpartisan organization that campaigns for freedom of speech. The FSU will publish a new report examining ...

1 Maj 51min

 Is This War Justified? Eli Lake Debates Iran with Robert Wright

Is This War Justified? Eli Lake Debates Iran with Robert Wright

Eli Lake joins Robert Wright over at his podcast NonZero, which offers “conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what th...

16 Apr 1h 56min

Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed

Why Iran’s Reform Movement Failed

Arash Azizi lived through the democracy movement in Iran before he wrote about it. Now a historian at Yale, he joins Eli Lake to trace the arc from former president Mohammad Khatami’s unlikely rise to...

9 Apr 54min

Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill

Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill

What does it actually take to break a regime built on martyrdom? Eli Lake sits down with Haviv Rettig Gur — host of Ask Haviv Anything and one of the deepest thinkers on the Middle East — to assess w...

31 Mars 1h 27min

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