All Episodes

Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

Pamela Toler, "The Dragon from Chicago"

John Mackey, "The Whole Story" & Steven Pinker, "Rationality"

Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

Francis Collins, "The Road to Wisdom"

Michael & Robert Meeropol, Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on the Rosenberg Spy Case

James Allen, Jr., "Not My Chair"

Peter Osnos, "LBJ and McNamara"

Steven Ford on Gerald Ford's Presidency

Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

World War II Veterans Steven Ellis & Rolf Slen

Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

Tammy Bruce, "Fear Itself"

J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

Riley Gaines, "Swimming Against the Current"

David Charter, "Royal Audience"

Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"

Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

World War II Veterans Steve Ellis & Rolf Slen

Betty Koed, "Scenes"

Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"

Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"

Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen, "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"

Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

David Charter, "Royal Audience"

Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"

Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"

Rob Henderson, "Troubled"

Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"

Katie Rogers, "American Woman"

Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"

Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

Charles Scribner III, "Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing"

Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur

Betty Koed, "Scenes"

FEED DROP: Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"

Cassandra Good, "First Family"

Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

BONUS EPISODE: Conversation w/ Q&A host Peter Slen

Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"

Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

Daryl Davis, Musician & Author

Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"

Jesse Holland, "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House"

Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.”

Rosemary Stevens, "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau"

Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment"

Tom Cronin, "Imagining a Great Republic"

Elizabeth Papez on Chief Justices of the Supreme Court

Amy Zegart, "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms"

Michael Green, "The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership"

Randall Eliason, On Senator Bob Menendez's First Political Corruption Trial

FEED DROP: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay "The Federalist Papers"

Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War"

Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"

Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

Jean Twenge, "Generations"

Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.

James Rosen, "Scalia"

Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"

Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"

Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"

Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"

Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

Cassandra Good, "First Family"

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice

Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise"

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), "Lost and Broken"

Daniel Weiss, "In That Time"

Ashlee Vance, "When the Heavens Went on Sale"

Cal Thomas, "A Watchman in the Night"

Jean Twenge, "Generations"

Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

Rebecca Roberts, "Untold Power"

David Bonior & Father Peter Daly on Aiding Ukrainian War Refugees

Joan Biskupic, "Nine Black Robes"

Neil King, Walking to New York City

Jeff Hobbs, "Children of the State"

Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women"

James Rosen, "Scalia"

Alvin Hall, "Driving the Green Book"

Matthew Connelly, "The Declassification Engine"

Alex Prud'homme, "Dinner with the President"

Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

Tracy Kidder, "Rough Sleepers"

Philip K. Howard, "Not Accountable"

Jim Popkin, "Code Name Blue Wren"

Author Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice

Joel Richard Paul, "Indivisible"

John Agresto, "The Death of Learning"

Javier Zamora on Migrating from El Salvador to the United States as a Nine-Year-Old