All Episodes

Ep. 189 Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"

Ep. 188 Brenda Wineapple, "Keeping the Faith"

Ep. 187 Harvey Mansfield on Presidential Immunity

Ep. 186 Megan Gorman, "All the Presidents' Money"

Ep. 185 Lindsay Chervinsky, "Making the Presidency"

Ep. 184 Dr. Marty Makary, "Blind Spots"

Ep. 183 Ken Khachigian, "Behind Closed Doors"

Ep. 182: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 2

Ep. 181 David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 1

Ep. 180 Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money"

Ep. 179 Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

Ep. 178 Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

Ep. 177 Former Washington Post Reporter & Professor Leon Dash

Ep. 176 Ronald Feinman, "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency"

Ep. 175 Nigel West, "Operation Garbo"

Ep. 174 Investigative Reporter Brody Mullins on Google & Law Professor Joshua Wright, and "The Wolves of K Street"

Ep. 173 Robert Schmuhl, "Mr. Churchill in the White House"

Ep. 172 David Tatel, "Vision"

Ep. 171 Historian Stacey Schiff at Purdue University

Ep. 170 Garrett Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive"

Ep. 169: Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"

Ep. 168 Glenn Loury, "Late Admissions"

Ep. 167 Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"

Ep. 166 Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"

Ep. 165 Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"

Ep. 164 Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"

Ep. 163 Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"

Ep. 162 Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series

Ep. 161 Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"

Ep. 160 Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"

Ep. 159 Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"

Ep. 158 Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"

Ep. 157 James Traub, "True Believer"

Ep. 156 Peter Englund, "November 1942"

Ep. 155 Jim Trusty, Defense Attorney

Ep. 154 Glenn Kirschner, Former Federal Prosecutor & "Justice Matters" Host

Ep. 153 Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg"

Ep. 152 Benn Steil, "The World That Wasn't"

Ep. 151 H.W. Brands, "Founding Partisans"

Ep. 150 Nigel Hamilton, "FDR at War" Trilogy

Ep. 149 Kira Anne West, Defense Attorney

Ep. 148 Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife"

Ep. 147 Ross Perot on His Life & Career

FEED DROP: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen

Ep. 146 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "How Do We Get Out of Here?"

Ep. 145 Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear"

Ep. 144 Michael Bryant (Co-Editor), "Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust"

Ep. 143 McKay Coppins, "Romney"

Ep. 142 Historians Douglas Brinkley, Joanne Freeman, Edna Medford and H.W. Brands on the Experiment of Democracy in America

Ep. 141 Sarah Ogilvie, "The Dictionary People"

Ep. 140 Martin Gurri, "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium"

Ep. 139 Robert Hartley, "Purpose, Power & Prison"

Ep. 138 Ben Stein, "The Peacemaker"

Ep. 137 Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock"

Ep. 136 Diana Henriques, "Taming the Street"

Ep. 135 Kenneth Rendell, "Safeguarding History"

Ep. 134 Fox News Contributor Karl Rove on America's Broken Politics

Ep. 133 Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons"

Ep. 132 Erec Smith, Co-Founder of Free Black Thought

Ep. 131 Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"

Ep. 130 Politico's Kyle Cheney on the January 6 Trials

Ep. 129 Luke Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics"

Ep. 128 Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory"

Ep. 127 Alan Philps, "The Red Hotel"

Ep. 126 Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks.com

Ep. 125 Katherine Clarke, "Billionaires' Row"

Ep. 124 Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow

Ep. 123 Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries"

Ep. 122 Martha Hodes, "My Hijacking"

Ep. 121 C.W. Goodyear, "President Garfield"

Ep. 120 William Hazelgrove, "The Last Charge of the Rough Rider"

Ep. 119 Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The World"

Ep. 118 Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

Ep. 117 James Risen, "The Last Honest Man"

Ep. 116 Marcela Gaviria, Documentary Filmmaker

Ep. 115 Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

Ep. 114 Timothy Egan, "A Fever in the Heartland"

Ep. 113 Philipos Melaku-Bello, Peace Activist

Ep. 112 Ahmed White, "Under the Iron Heel"

Ep. 111 Historian Edna Greene Medford on African American History, U.S. Presidents, the Civil War & Reconstruction

Ep. 110 James B. Stewart, "Unscripted"

Ep. 109 Derek Leebaert, "Unlikely Heroes"

Ep. 108 Edward Achorn, "The Lincoln Miracle"

Ep. 107 Oath Keepers Trial Juror

Ep. 106 Nathan Masters, "Crooked"

Ep. 105 Richard White, "Who Killed Jane Stanford?"

Ep. 104 Kidada Williams, "I Saw Death Coming"

Ep. 103 Denise Kiernan & Joseph D'Agnese on the Signers of the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution

Ep. 102 Titus Herman, CEO of Southeastern Guide Dogs

Ep. 101 Robert Kagan, "The Ghost at the Feast"

Ep. 100 Southern Poverty Law Center's Megan Squire on Researching Extremist Groups

Ep. 99 Lawfare's Roger Parloff on the Proud Boys Trial

Ep. 98 Dorian Lynskey, "The Ministry of Truth"

Ep. 97 Beverly Gage, "G-Man"

Ep. 96 Paul Gregory, "The Oswalds"

Ep. 95 Steve Kornacki, Host of "The Revolution" Podcast

Ep. 94 Author and Opinion Writer Gordon Chang on China and Its Future

Ep. 93 Mark Bergen, "Like, Comment, Subscribe"

Ep. 92 Matthew Delmont, "Half American"

Ep. 91 Winslow Wheeler on the United States' Military Posture