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Richard Aldous

Biweekly conversations between Richard Aldous, Bard College professor and distinguished historian, and authors on their newest books. www.persuasion.community

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194 episodes

  1. Episode 194: D. J. Taylor on J. R. R. Tolkien 31:35
  2. Episode 193: Peter Bergen on Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror 32:13
  3. Episode 192: Maya Kornberg on How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress 31:34
  4. Episode 191: Admiral William J. Fallon on Decisions, Discord & Diplomacy 33:59
  5. Episode 190: Antonia Senior on the Cambridge Five 32:09
  6. Episode 189: Laurence Jurdem on George H. W. Bush 30:08
  7. Episode 188: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873 25:53
  8. Episode 187: Ian Shapiro on How Politicians Broke Our World 24:59
  9. Episode 186: Odd Arne Westad on the Coming Storm 28:31
  10. Episode 185: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy 32:27
  11. Episode 184: Frank Dikötter on How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity 30:32
  12. Episode 183: Steve Israel on the Einstein Conspiracy 29:46
  13. Episode 182: Christopher Clark on A Scandal in Königsberg 26:42
  14. Episode 181: Hélène Landemore on Politics Without Politicians 28:11
  15. Episode 180: Nicolas Stavros Niarchos on the Elements of Power 26:37
  16. Episode 179: Georgios Varouxakis on the West 26:21
  17. Episode 178: Geoffrey Ward on the American Revolution 28:17
  18. Episode 177: Kori Schake on the State and the Soldier 26:00
  19. Episode 176: Shadi Hamid on American Power 30:40
  20. Episode 175: Sven Beckert on Capitalism 26:01
  21. Episode 174: Vanessa Williamson on the Price of Democracy 25:31
  22. Episode 173: Phillips O'Brien on War and Power 28:21
  23. Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara at War 27:22
  24. Episode 171: Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution 29:59
  25. Episode 170: Simon Ball on A Modern History of Assassination 29:34
  26. Episode 169: Ross Benes on Why 1999 Was the Year Low Culture Conquered America 29:44
  27. Episode 168: Karen Elliott House on Mohammed Bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia 30:31
  28. Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class 37:36
  29. Episode 166: Bryan Burrough on How Texas Gunfighters Made the West Wild 27:15
  30. Episode 165: Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher on U.S. Industrial Policy 36:13
  31. Episode 164: Edward Luce on the Life of Zbig, America's Great Power Prophet 40:59
  32. Episode 163: Matthew C. Klein on Why Trade Wars are Class Wars 33:00
  33. Episode 162: Jonathan Rauch on Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy 34:03
  34. Episode 161: Nicole Karlis Explores Your Brain on Altruism 29:10
  35. Episode 160: Nir Arielli on 10,000 Years of Dead Sea History 29:50
  36. Episode 159: Wolfgang Münchau on Germany Going Kaput 38:50
  37. Episode 158: Tevi Troy on the Epic Clashes between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry 31:57
  38. Episode 157: Katherine C. Epstein on How Theft of 20th Century Tech Built the National Security State 35:01
  39. Episode 156: Lindsay Chervinsky on John Adams' Republic-Forging Precedents 30:31
  40. Episode 155: Michael Mandelbaum on the Titans of the Twentieth Century 30:47
  41. Episode 154: Caitlin Rivers on the Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks 32:48
  42. Episode 153: Hyrum Lewis on the Myth of Left and Right 25:59
  43. Episode 152: Admiral James Stavridis on the U.S. Navy, NATO, and the Human Story 32:08
  44. Episode 151: Sean McMeekin on the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Communism 34:10
  45. Episode 150: Marsha E. Barrett on the Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism 31:13
  46. Episode 149: Clara Bingham on How Women's Liberation Transformed America 34:57
  47. Episode 148: James Graham Wilson on America's Cold Warrior 30:11
  48. Episode 147: Louise Story and Ebony Reed on the Black-White Wealth Gap in America 26:40
  49. Episode 146: Peter S. Goodman on How We Ran Out of Everything 33:28
  50. Episode 145: Michel Paradis on Eisenhower’s Enduring Legacy 31:47