All Episodes

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 9: When 'Any Person' Wins: The Plyler v. Doe Breakthrough

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 8: When the Constitution Stops at the Shore: The Insular Cases Explained

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 7: Born Here, Belong Here: The Wong Kim Ark Case

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 6: All Persons, With an Asterisk: The Chinese Exclusion Act vs. the 14th Amendment

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 5: Separate But Equal: The Court That Sold Segregation

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 4: Slaughterhouse Surprise: How the 14th Amendment Was Gutted

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 3: Chase’s Caution: How the 14th Amendment Was Tempered

Vaccines (thread 4), Epsiode 10: Leicester's Rebellion: The Birth of the Anti-Vaccination League

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 12: The Spine vs. Germs: D.D. Palmer’s Bold Rejection of Germ Theory

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 11: The Shirtless Philosopher: When Abs Met Anti-Vax

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 9: Survival of the Fittest: Spencer’s Case Against Vaccination

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 8: Thoreau vs. The Needle: When Conscience Meets Contagion

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 12: FDR’s Lesson: You Can’t Tariff Your Way Out

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 11: Smoot-Hawley: The Tariff That Trapped Hoover

ICE (thread 8), Episode 7: When the Badge Becomes the Blame: What Abolitionists Would Say About ICE

ICE (thread 8), Episode 6: When Order Trumped Justice: From the Fugitive Slave Act to Modern Enforcement

WWKMD?, Episode 16: If Karl Marx Took On the Vaccine Debate

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 18: Whose Hands Built the Prosperity? Cesar Chavez’s Challenge

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 17: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Unapologetic Voice America Couldn't Ignore

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 16: If MLK Sat in the State of the Union: The Questions He’d Ask

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 15: If William F. Buckley Watched Trump's State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 14: Goldwater Would've Nodded — Then Raised an Eyebrow

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 13: If Murrow Faced the State of the Union: Lights, Tape, Truth

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 12: When McCarthy Would Cheer: TV Rhetoric and the State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 11: If JFK Watched the State of the Union: Ambition vs. Applause

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 10: FDR vs. Trump: What the King of Crisis Management Would Change About the State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 9: If Jane Addams Sat in the State of the Union Gallery

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 8: What Ida B. Wells Would Ask at the State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 7: If Mark Twain Attended the State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 6: If Eugene Debs Watched the State of the Union: Who Really Holds Power?

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 5: Du Bois Takes the State of the Union: The X‑Ray Behind the Flags

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 4: If Teddy Roosevelt Watched Trump’s State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 3: If Lincoln Watched Trump's State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 2: If Andrew Jackson Watched Trump's State of the Union

SOTU (thread 9), Episode 1: If George Washington Watched Trump's State of the Union

ICE (thread 8), Episode 5: When Law Becomes a Boot: Patriots vs. the Empire

ICE (thread 8), Episode 4: If Britain Were Watching: 1770s Logic Meets Modern Enforcement

Historic Whimsey, Episode 3: If Nixon Watched Pam Bondi: Loyalty, Cover-Ups, and the Epstein Files

WWKMD?, Episode 15: If Adam Smith Walked Into Walmart

WWKMD?, Episode 14: If Marx Met AI: Why Machines Didn’t Surprise Him

Venezuela (thread 6), Episode 7: The Marine Who Exposed Empire: Smedley Butler's Reckoning

Venezuela (thread 6), Episode 6: Mark Twain vs. Empire: Why Venezuela Isn't America's to Save

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 10: Carnegie vs. Rockefeller: How Tariffs Rewrote American Capitalism

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 9: TR vs. Trump: The Tariff Test

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 8: McKinley vs. Modern Tariff Politics: What He'd Say About Trump's Trade War

ICE (thread 8), Episode 3: Kant vs. Deterrence: When Duty Checks Power

ICE (thread 8), Episode 2: Locke vs. Power: When 'Law and Order' Becomes Tyranny

ICE (thread 8), Episode 1: Leviathan at the Border: What Hobbes Would Say About ICE

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 18: Emma Goldman on War: Bodies, Obedience, and Power

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 17: What W.E.B. Du Bois Would Say About the Ukraine War

Ukraine (Thread 1), Episode 16: The Ukraine War Through a Socialist's Eyes

The White House Ballroom (thread 7), Episode 2: Jefferson vs. Washington: Why the White House Shouldn’t Dance

The White House Ballroom (thread 7), Episode 1: Why George Washington Wouldn’t Let the White House Have a Ballroom

Historic Supreme Courts--Obamacare (thread 8), Episode 7: When the Court Changed the Rules: How Hughes Made Regulation Constitutional

Historic Supreme Courts--Obamacare (thread 8), Epsiode 6: Taft vs. Obamacare: When the Court Clung to Old Order

Historic Supreme Courts--Obamacare (thread 8): Episode 5: The Fuller Court vs. Obamacare: How 19th‑Century Judges Would Have Said No

Historic Supreme Courts--Obamacare (thread 8), Episode 4: Reconstruction Court vs. Obamacare: When Liberty Meant Being Left Alone

Venezuela (thread 6), Episode 5: When Headlines Start Wars: Hearst’s Venezuela Playbook

Venezuela (thread 6), Episode 4: Moral Imperialism: Beveridge’s Divine Case for Empire

Venezuela (thread 6), Episode 3: Henry Cabot Lodge: When Empire Felt Like Duty

WWKMD?, Episode 13: Marx vs. Obamacare: The Market’s Medical Band‑Aid

WWKMD?, Episode 12: Marx vs. Bitcoin: What the Bearded Prophet Would Say

Historic Supreme Courts--Tariffs, Episode 7: Rehnquist’s Ruling: Why Trump’s Tariffs Would Hold

Historic Supreme Courts--Tariffs, Episode 6: When the Burger Court Said 'Not Our Job': Why Deference Won

Historic Supreme Courts--Tariffs, Episode 5: If Earl Warren Could Judge Trump: Tariffs Through the Warren Court Lens

Tariffs (thread 3): Episode 7: Henry Clay vs. Trump: Tariffs That Build — Not Blow Up — the Union

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 6: Jackson Would Hang the Dissenters: How Tariffs Become a Power Play

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 5: Calhoun vs. Trump: Tariffs, Power, and a Fracturing Union

Venezuela (thread 6): Episode 2: How the U.S. Quietly Stole Hawaii: Power, Profit, and a Coup

Venenzuela (thread 6): Episode 1: Banana Wars: How Fruit Fueled an American Empire

Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 9: Jane Addams and Obamacare: Building Democracy Through Care

Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 8: Emma Goldman vs. Obamacare: Why a Tourniquet Isn't Liberation

Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 7: When Gompers Met Obamacare: Gilded Age Labor’s Mixed Verdict

Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 6: How Gilded Age Leaders Would React to Obamacare

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 7: Remove the Pump Handle: John Snow’s Blueprint to Stop Measles

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 6: Florence Nightingale vs. Measles: Counting the Cost of Hesitancy

Vaccines (thread 4), Episode 5: If Pasteur Saw the Measles Come Back

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 15: Wilson vs. Lodge: The Moral Choice That Shapes America's Response to Ukraine

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 14: When Headlines Start Wars: Hearst and the Russia-Ukraine Story

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 13: Henry Cabot Lodge's Hard Realism: Power Over Piety in Ukraine

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 12: Albert Beveridge: Evangelist of Empire and the Case for Unapologetic Power

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 11: Nicholas Murray Butler and the Realpolitik of Ukraine

WWKMD?, Episode 11: Adorno's Christmas: When Cheer Becomes Conformity

WWKMD?, Episode 10: Walter Benjamin's Christmas: Capitalism's Phantasmagoria

WWKMD?, Episode 9: Marx and the Christmas Illusion: Gifts, Gold, and Commodity Fetishism

WWKMD?, Episode 8: Rousseau's Christmas: When Festivity Becomes Performance

Historical Whimsey, Episode 2: TR's Big Stick: Why Venezuela Tests America's Resolve

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 2: Birthright and Revolution: How Reconstruction Rewrote American Citizenship

Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 1: How Taney Tried to Block Birthright Citizenship — and How the 14th Overruled Him

WWKMD?, Episode 7: Marx in the Pharmacy: Why Insulin Has a Price Tag

Historic Supreme Courts--Obamacare, Episode 3: Salmon P. Chase and the Court That Rewrote the Union

Historic Supreme Courts--Obamacare, Episode 2: Taney vs. Obamacare: A Constitutional Showdown

Historic Supreme Courts--Abortion, Episode 5: Contracts, Not Bodies: How the Fuller‑Lochner Court Would've Rejected Roe

Historic Supreme Courts--Abortion, Episode 4: If the 'Weighty' Court Had Ruled on Roe: Federalism Over Privacy

Historic Supreme Courts--Abortion, Episode 2: Taney's Constitution: Why Roe Would Be Invisible

Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 4: If Brutus Could See the Tariff: Anti‑Federalists vs. Modern Executive Power

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 10: How Jefferson Davis Would Read the Russia‑Ukraine War

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 9: Seward vs. Empires: The 19th-Century Lens on Ukraine

Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 8: Polk's Compass: Reading the Russia-Ukraine War Through 19th-Century Eyes

WWKMD?, Episode 6: Gramsci, Raids, and the Making of Consent