The Antislavery Activist That Time Forgot: Historian Walter Stahr On Salmon P. Chase
Historical biographer Walter Stahr has given us definitive biographies of William H. Seward and Edwin Stanton, two of the ablest and most influential members of President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Ea...
1 Sep 202258min
The Wrath of Kan: A Soviet-Born Anthropologist on Stalin’s Gulag
Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 21 and received his und...
24 Aug 202242min
Do Not Defund: Roland Fryer and Rafael Mangual on Crime and Policing in the 21st Century
Roland Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University. Fryer's research combines economic theory, empirical evidence, and randomized experiments to help design more effective government polic...
3 Aug 202257min
Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American Black intellectuals, the three guests on this show would certainly be on it: Glenn Loury is a professor of the social sciences in the Department of economics...
25 Juli 202258min
Nationalize or Not?: Matthew Continetti and Chris DeMuth Debate the Future of Conservatism
Matthew Continetti is the author of the new book The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, an extensively researched and reported history of the conservative movement in America. Chri...
13 Juli 20221h 12min
Yoram Hazony Rediscovers Conservatism
Yoram Hazony is the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and president of the Herzl Institute. His 2018 book, The Virtue of Nationalism, established Hazony as one of the leading proponents of a new...
23 Juni 20221h 11min
More Than “One Damn Thing,” with Bill Barr
William P. Barr is one of only two people to have served as attorney general of the United States under two presidents and the only one to have done it in two different centuries (under George H. W. B...
8 Juni 20221h 19min
Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings
The political philosopher Harvey Mansfield first arrived at Harvard University in the fall of 1949. He has remained at that august institution of higher education and is still teaching at age 90. In t...
24 Maj 202253min
