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UK’s John Suchet, OBE, on Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, & Ballets
U-OK’s Dan Hamlin on Emerging School Models & Learning Loss
NYT #1 Bestseller Dava Sobel on Marie Curie & Women in Science
Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Loffman v. CA DOE, Religious Liberty, & Schooling
CUNY’s Carl Rollyson on William Faulkner & Southern Literature
NH Gov. Chris Sununu on School Choice
Dr. Helen Baxendale on Great Hearts Classical Liberal Arts Charter Schools
Jeffrey Meyers on Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Horror, & Halloween
U-TX at SA's Catherine Clinton on Harriet Tubman & the Underground Railroad
Award-Winner Tom Segev on Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben-Gurion
Lynch Foundation’s Katie Everett on School Finance Model for Catholic Schools & School Choice
MA Teacher James Conway & High School Grad Ela Gardiner on MCAS Testing
Edward Achorn on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, & Slavery
PRI’s Lance Izumi on The Great Classroom Collapse
AFC’s Denisha Allen on School Choice & Black Minds Matter
UK’s Prof. Richard Holmes on Coleridge, the Ancient Mariner, & Poetry
NYT’s Anupreeta Das on Bill Gates, Microsoft, & Tech Billionaires
National Alliance’s Starlee Coleman on Public Charter Schools
Houston Supt. Mike Miles & Urban School Reform
Dr. David Heidler on Andrew Jackson & American Democracy
MIT’s Nobel Winner Joshua Angrist on the Economics of Education & Charter Public Schools
Stanford’s Arnold Rampersad on Jackie Robinson
Pulitzer Winner Kai Bird on Robert Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
Georgetown’s Dr. Marguerite Roza on Federal ESSER Funds & the Fiscal Cliff
Harlow Giles Unger on Patrick Henry & American Liberty
Prof. Joel Richard Paul on Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate, & “Liberty and Union”
Steven Wilson on Charter Public Schools
Sheldon Novick on Henry James, American Women, & Gilded-Age Fiction
USAF Academy’s Jeanne Heidler on Henry Clay & Congressional Statesmanship
Israeli Harvard Student Maya Shiloni on Campus Antisemitism
Kimberly Steadman of Edward Brooke on Boston's Charter School Sector
Cheryl Brown Henderson on the 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
POLITICO’s Peter Canellos on Justice John Marshall Harlan & Plessy v. Ferguson
Colonel Peter Hayden on U.S. Cyber Command & National Security
Hoover at Stanford’s Stephen Kotkin on Stalin’s Tyranny, WWII, & the Cold War
Johns Hopkins’ Ashley Berner on Educational Pluralism & Democracy
39th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky for National Poetry Month
U.S. Chamber Foundation’s Hilary Crow on K-12 Civics Education
Tacitus, Roman Emperors, & Despotism with UCLA’s Ronald Mellor
METCO’s Proven Results with Tufts Prof. Elizabeth Setren
Pulitzer Winner Joan Hedrick on Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Calculus Project & STEM with Dr. Adrian Mims
J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI with Yale's Pulitzer Winner Beverly Gage
Mexico’s Cartels & Drug Trade with UK U-Warwick’s Benjamin Smith
MCAS & Teacher Strikes with DFER-MA’s Mary Tamer
Booker T. Washington & Voc-Tech with U-TN’s Robert Norrell
TIMSS & K-12 Global STEM with BC’s Dr. Matthias von Davier
National School Choice Week with ExcelinEd’s Dr. Cara Candal
Reclaiming the Radical MLK with Jonathan Eig
Olympic Track Medalist Gabby Thomas
Two Time Pulitzer Winner T.J. Stiles on Cornelius Vanderbilt & American Business
Smith College's Carol Zaleski on The Lord of the Rings & Narnia
Emily Hanford on Reading Science & K-12 Literacy
Golda Meir's Leadership and the State of Israel
Hillsdale’s Dr. Kathleen O’Toole on K-12 Classical Education
Nina Rees on Charter Public Schools in America
Harvard Prof. Leo Damrosch on Jonathan Swift & Gulliver’s Travels
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Carol Swain on U.S. History, Race, & 1776 Unites
Leslie Klinger on Sherlock Holmes, Horror Stories, & Halloween
Pioneer’s U.S. History & Civics Book with Chris Sinacola
Prof. Jeff Broadwater on George Mason, Federalism, & the Bill of Rights
Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty on School Reform
UCLA’s Professor James Stigler on Teaching & Learning Math
UK’s Laura Thompson on Agatha Christie, Queen of Crime Mystery
John Steele Gordon on America's Economic Rise
Dr. Ramachandra Guha on Gandhi's Enduring Legacy
On Chicago, School Reform, and Teachers' Unions
U-Ark. Prof. Albert Cheng on Classical Education & School Choice
Jay Parini on Thirteen Books That Changed America
Colossal Academy’s Shiren Rattigan on Microschools & School Choice
UK Cambridge’s Prof. David Abulafia on Oceans, Seas, & Global Trade
NAS's Dr. Peter Wood on Diversity and Anger in America
Manisha Sinha on the History of Abolition
Pulitzer Winner Tamara Payne on the Life and Legacy of Malcolm X
Dr. David Steiner on Teaching Wisdom in Schools
Samuel Adams & American Independence
Cara and Gerard's Final Show as Cohosts
Becket Fund’s Eric Rassbach on Religious Liberty & American Schooling
PRI’s Lance Izumi on Charter Schools & School Choice
McGill Prof. Marc Raboy on Marconi & Global Communications
Donald Graham on The Washington Post, Media, and Educating Immigrants
Columbia Law’s Philip Hamburger on Church, State, & School Choice
AEI's Dr. Diana Schaub on the Founders, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, & Civics
Morehouse’s Prof. Marisela Martinez-Cola on Pre-Brown Cases for Educational Equality
Marquette’s Dr. Howard Fuller on School Choice, Charter Schools, and Race
Columbia's Pulitzer Winner Prof. Eric Foner on Lincoln, Slavery, & Reconstruction
Dr. Carey Wright on Mississippi's K-12 NAEP Gains
Prof. Frank Dikötter on China: Mao's Tyranny to Rising Superpower
U-Texas Prof. Lorraine Pangle on the Founding Fathers, Education, and Civics
UK’s Robert McCrum on P.G. Wodehouse, ‘Jeeves & Wooster,’ and April Fools’ Day
Ashley Soifer and Microschooling
UVA Prof. Dan Willingham on Learning Science & K-12 Schooling
Lessons from Shakespeare: Julius Caesar for the Ages
Lauren Redniss on Marie Curie, STEM, & Women's History
A Daughter's Memoir of B.U.'s Dr. John Silber
OECD’s Andreas Schleicher on PISA & K-12 Global Education
India Unbound: Gurcharan Das on the Rise of India
Dr. Deborah Plant on Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
George Weigel Discusses Pope St. John Paul II for National Catholic Schools Week
Award-Winning UK Author and Filmmaker Laurence Rees on the Holocaust, Auschwitz, and Remembrance