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Bookstack — 190 episodes
Episode 190: Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five
Episode 189: Laurence Jurdem on George H. W. Bush
Episode 188: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873
Episode 187: Ian Shapiro on How Politicians Broke Our World
Episode 186: Odd Arne Westad on the Coming Storm
Episode 185: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy
Episode 184: Frank Dikötter on How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
Episode 183: Steve Israel on the Einstein Conspiracy
Episode 182: Christopher Clark on A Scandal in Königsberg
Episode 181: Hélène Landemore on Politics Without Politicians
Episode 180: Nicolas Stavros Niarchos on the Elements of Power
Episode 179: Georgios Varouxakis on the West
Episode 178: Geoffrey Ward on the American Revolution
Episode 177: Kori Schake on the State and the Soldier
Episode 176: Shadi Hamid on American Power
Episode 175: Sven Beckert on Capitalism
Episode 174: Vanessa Williamson on the Price of Democracy
Episode 173: Phillips O'Brien on War and Power
Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara at War
Episode 171: Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution
Episode 170: Simon Ball on A Modern History of Assassination
Episode 169: Ross Benes on Why 1999 Was the Year Low Culture Conquered America
Episode 168: Karen Elliott House on Mohammed Bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class
Episode 166: Bryan Burrough on How Texas Gunfighters Made the West Wild
Episode 165: Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher on U.S. Industrial Policy
Episode 164: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbig, America's Great Power Prophet
Episode 163: Matthew C. Klein on Why Trade Wars are Class Wars
Episode 162: Jonathan Rauch on Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy
Episode 161: Nicole Karlis Explores Your Brain on Altruism
Episode 160: Nir Arielli on 10,000 Years of Dead Sea History
Episode 159: Wolfgang Münchau on Germany Going Kaput
Episode 158: Tevi Troy on the Epic Clashes between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry
Episode 157: Katherine C. Epstein on How Theft of 20th Century Tech Built the National Security State
Episode 156: Lindsay Chervinsky on John Adams' Republic-Forging Precedents
Episode 155: Michael Mandelbaum on the Titans of the Twentieth Century
Episode 154: Caitlin Rivers on the Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
Episode 153: Hyrum Lewis on the Myth of Left and Right
Episode 152: Admiral James Stavridis on the U.S. Navy, NATO, and the Human Story
Episode 151: Sean McMeekin on the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Communism
Episode 150: Marsha E. Barrett on the Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism
Episode 149: Clara Bingham on How Women's Liberation Transformed America
Episode 148: James Graham Wilson on America's Cold Warrior
Episode 147: Louise Story and Ebony Reed on the Black-White Wealth Gap in America
Episode 146: Peter S. Goodman on How We Ran Out of Everything
Episode 145: Michel Paradis on Eisenhower’s Enduring Legacy
Episode 144: James Davison Hunter on Democracy, Solidarity, and the Future of America
Episode 143: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the Taiwan Standoff
Episode 142: Diana McLain Smith on Bringing Americans Together
Episode 141: Adriana Carranca on the New Wave of Latin American Missionaries
Episode 140: David L. Roll on President Harry Truman
Episode 139: Nicholas Shakespeare on Ian Fleming
Episode 138: Seth D. Kaplan on America’s Fragile Neighborhoods
Episode 137: Leah Hunt-Hendrix on the Power of Solidarity
Episode 136: Paul Starobin on the Russian Exiles
Episode 135: Ian Buruma on the Relevance of Spinoza
Episode 134: Maria Popova on Ukraine and Russia’s Diverging Paths
Episode 133: Lorraine Daston on the History of Scientific Collaboration
Episode 132: David Reynolds on Winston Churchill
Episode 131: Joshua Green on the Populism of the Democratic Party
Episode 130: Azam Ahmed on Mexico’s Violent Cartels
Episode 129: Raymond Arsenault on John Lewis
Episode 128: Joseph S. Nye Jr. on Postwar America
Episode 127: Ganesh Sitaraman on Helping Flying Soar
Episode 126: Nikki Vargas on the Roads Taken
Episode 125: Daniel Schulman on the Jewish Titans
Episode 124: John Coates on the New Concentration of Financial Power
Episode 123: Laurence Jurdem on TR and Henry Cabot Lodge
Episode 122: Thomas Graham on Seeing Russia Clearly
Episode 121: Uri Kaufman on the Yom Kippur War
Episode 120: Katherine Turk on NOW’s Lesser-Known Feminists
Episode 119: Alexandra Hudson on Civility
Episode 118: Joseph Horowitz on the Art-Freedom Nexus
Episode 117: Yascha Mounk on the False Promise of Identity Ideology
Episode 116: Michael S. Roth on Loving Learning
Episode 115: Timothy Garton Ash on What It Means to Be European
Episode 114: Tara Isabella Burton on Self Creation across the Ages
Episode 113: Yasmine El Rashidi on Egypt’s Fortunes
Episode 112: Hugh Howey on the Silo Series
Episode 111: Daniel Gordis on Israel at 75
Episode 110: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman on the Moral Divide in U.S. Politics
Episode 109: Andrew Hoehn and Thom Shanker on a New Age of Danger
Episode 108: Brett Forrest on the Unusual Disappearance of an American FBI Source
Episode 107: Christopher de Bellaigue on Making Flight Carbon-Friendly
Episode 106: Frank Costigliola on George Kennan
Episode 105: Kim Sherwood on Her Double O Novel
Episode 104: Blythe Roberson on Embracing the Open Road
Episode 103: Charles Dunst on Defeating the Dictators
Episode 102: Dana Sachs on Our Saviors at Sea
Episode 101: Ian Buruma on Three Legendary Fakes
Episode 100: Robert D. Kaplan on Inescapable Tragedy
Episode 99: Meredith Bagby on A New Kind of Astronaut
Episode 98: Derek Leebaert on FDR’s Circle of Four
Episode 97: Adam Kirsch on Imagining Earth without Humans
Episode 96: Van Jackson on America’s Paradoxical Role in Asia
Episode 95: James E. Cronin on the Reinvention of the Liberal Democratic Order
Episode 94: Shana Kushner Gadarian on Politics and the Pandemic
Episode 93: Frank Dikötter on China’s Uneven Rise
Episode 92: Tom Dunkel on the Germans Sabotaging the Third Reich
Episode 91: Dan Akst on the WWII Pacifists Who Revolutionized Resistance
Episode 90: John Lahr on How Arthur Miller Captured American Life
Episode 89: William Inboden on How Reagan Kept the Cold War Cold
Episode 88: Megan Walsh on China’s Lively Literary Scene
Episode 87: Jacob Soll on the Ever-Changing Free Market
Episode 86: John A. Farrell on Ted Kennedy’s Epic, Turbulent Life
Episode 85: Gautam Mukunda on Choosing a Presidential Candidate
Episode 84: Rita Katz on Internet-Age Terrorism
Episode 83: Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges on Xi Jinping’s Hidden Story
Episode 82: Cody Keenan on the Ten Days that Defined Obama's Presidency
Episode 81: Giles Tremlett on Spain's Complicated Past
Episode 80: Walter Russell Mead on the American-Israeli Relationship
Episode 79: Eleanor Herman and the Demonization of Women in Power
Episode 78: Francesca Tripodi on Right-Wing Narratives and their Internet Success
Episode 77: Michael Mandelbaum on American Foreign Policy
Episode 76: Mary Ziegler on the Anti-Abortion Movement
Episode 75: Jonathan Pelson on China's dangerous domination of 5G
Episode 74: Ezrachi and Stucke on Big Tech’s threat to innovation
Episode 73: James Kirchick on the hidden history of gay Washington
Episode 72: Thomas S. Kidd on Thomas Jefferson
Episode 71: Aaron Friedberg on Getting China Wrong
Episode 70: Lev Menand on the Federal Reserve
Episode 69: Frederic C. Hof on Obama and Syria
Episode 68: Nelly Lahoud on the bin Laden papers
Episode 67: Jimmy Soni on PayPal's entrepreneurs
Episode 66: Zubok on the USSR's collapse
Episode 65: Matthew Continetti on American Conservatism
Episode 64: Christine Emba on sexual ethics
Episode 63: Garrett Graff's new Watergate history
Episode 62: Lee Siegel on Why Argument Matters
Episode 61: Guriev and Treisman on the tools of today's tyrants
Episode 60: Christopher Smith on Ukraine’s Westward Evolution
Episode 59: Chris Armstrong on our vital oceans
Episode 58: Sebastian Mallaby on the venture capitalists
Episode 57: Dwight Chapin on the Nixon White House
Episode 56: A. J. Baime on Walter F. White
Episode 55: Iain Dale and Alvin Felzenberg on our 45 Presidents
Episode 54: Linda Hirshman on the abolition movement
Episode 53: Peter Goodman on the billionaires and power
Episode 52: Simms and Laderman on Hitler's American Gamble
Episode 51: Bruce Ragsdale on Washington and slavery
Episode 50: Roosevelt Montas on the Great Books' enduring value
Episode 49: Joseph Horowitz on Black classical music
Episode 48: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell
Episode 47: Brendan Borrell on the race to the vaccine
Episode 46: Olivia Williams on the Savoy's glamorous tales
Episode 45: Bruce Jones on naval supremacy and today’s geopolitics
Episode 44: Fiona Hill on political dysfunction
Episode 43: Sarotte on the post-Cold War stalemate
Episode 42: Parag Khanna on Societal Upheaval
Episode 41: Matthew Sturgis on Oscar Wilde and social mores
Episode 40: Anne-Marie Slaughter on American renewal
Episode 39: Harold James on political terminology
Episode 38: H.R. McMaster on America's future battlegrounds
Episode 37: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili on Afghanistan and State-Building
Episode 36: Toby Harnden on the CIA's Mission in Afghanistan
Episode 35: Peter Hartcher on Australia's China Challenge
Episode 34: Firmin DeBrabander on the Internet's Threat to Privacy
Episode 33: Shawna Kay Rodenberg on Growing Up in Kentucky
Episode 32: Gillian Tett's Anthropological Lens
Episode 31: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
Episode 30: Tevi Troy Looks at 70 Years of White House Intrigue
Episode 29: Michael Dobbs on Nixon's Fatal Flaws
Episode 28: Susan Eisenhower on How Ike Led
Episode 27: Sean McMeekin's New Take on World War II
Episode 26: Olivette Otele on the History of African Europeans
Episode 25: Vernon Bogdanor on Britain's Wavering Connections to Europe
Episode 24: Stephen Walker on the First Journey Into Space
Episode 23: Lawrence J. Haas on the Kennedys' Approach to the World
Episode 22: Cristina Groeger on Education and Economic Disparity
Episode 21: Paula Marantz Cohen on Shakespeare and Empathy
Episode 20: Roya Hakakian's Immigrant Guide to America
Episode 19: Ritchie Robertson on the Enlightenment, 1680-1790
Episode 18: Richard Thompson Ford on Fashion, Law, and Social Change
Episode 17: R. James Breiding on Small-Nation Success
Episode 16: Emma Rothschild’s Generational Portrait of France
Episode 15: Robert D. Kaplan on Humanitarian Bob Gersony
Episode 14: Dominique Kirchner Reill on Interwar Fascism in Fiume
Episode 13: Kevin Kosar on Congressional Dysfunction
Episode 12: Larry Diamond on Saving Democracy
Episode 11: Satia on Progress and Colonialism
Episode 10: Ikenberry on Democracy
Episode 9: Teasel Muir-Harmony on the Power of the Moon Landing
Episode 8: Thomas E. Ricks on First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Episode 7: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker on James A. Baker III
Episode 6: Ian Buruma on America's Special Relationship with the UK
Episode 5: Edmund Fawcett on "Conservatism"
Episode 4: Bookstack: Mark Salter on Senator John McCain’s Legacy
Episode 3: Francis Fukuyama on the End of History and the Last Man
Episode 2: Lindsay M. Chervinsky on the Origins of the Presidential Cabinet
Charles A. Kupchan on 'Isolationism'