The Palestinians' Economic Catastrophe
When tracing the origins of today's war and devastation in Gaza, it may be easy to overlook economic inequality in favor of political or ideological explanations. In this episode, political analyst an...
10 Juni 202547min
D-Day in Film
Can movies mirror the reality of war? Should war movies be entertaining or horrifying? Today is June 6, the anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy in 1944. Films like The Longest Day and Saving Priva...
6 Juni 20251h 1min
Lincoln and Habeas Corpus
Trump administration officials say they're considering doing something that's only been done four times in U.S. history: suspend the writ of habeas corpus, a bedrock legal principle ensuring that an i...
3 Juni 202544min
Presidential Peacemakers
Since Theodore Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Russo-Japanese War, American presidents have sought to mediate the end of conflicts in violent corners of the world. Some succeeded...
30 Maj 202556min
The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0
The theories of unrestrained executive power guiding the Trump administration's assault on the administrative state and its attitude toward the federal judiciary draw on a far-right intellectual tradi...
27 Maj 20251h 10min
What is Chinese Communism?
China is ruled by a Communist Party of 100 million members, a giant pyramid with President Xi Jinping and the Politburo at the top. Yet its economy, the second largest in the world, largely thrives on...
23 Maj 202547min
Antony Beevor on the Unsettled Legacies of WWII
Historian Antony Beevor says the world today resembles the Second World War in one important respect: "For decades, it seemed as though the characters of leaders would never again determine the course...
20 Maj 202545min
India and Pakistan's Forever War
For four days in early May, India and Pakistan were on the brink of another war over the contested Kashmir, the mountainous territory that has witnessed waves of ferocious violence since partition in ...
16 Maj 202545min
