S8 Ep592: 1. Bill Roggio and Hussein Haqqani (SEG 1): Haqqani discusses global resistance to President Trump’s Strait of Hormuz mission and the economic impact of Iran's strategy. Roggio analyzes t...
S8 Ep591: File: P-FISHER-3-16-WEAPONS-3-16.mp3 Guest: Rick Fisher PREVIEW FOR LATER: Guest Rick Fisher explains that a prolonged conflict increases the risk of China transferring advanced weaponry,...
S8 Ep591: File: P-ROGGIO-REGIME--3-16.mp3 Guest: Bill Roggio PREVIEW FOR LATER: Guest Bill Roggio analyzes why the expected quick victory over Iran failed. He argues that the administration underes...
S8 Ep590: PREVIEW FOR LATER: Greg Scarlatoiu discusses Romanian President Nicușor Dan’s decision to host NATO forces amidst threats from Iran. As a strategic ally bordering Ukraine, Romania relies ...
S8 Ep589: PREVIEW FOR LATER: Husain Haqqani explores why European and Arab allies hesitate to support U.S. efforts against Iran. Tensions rise as President Trump’s rhetoric alienates partners, leav...
S8 Ep589: PREVIEW FOR LATER: John Hardie examines how the Iran war affects Ukraine’s defense and global oil markets. He details U.S. Treasury waivers on Russian oil sanctions intended to mitigate s...
S8 Ep589: PREVIEW FOR LATER: Former UK Ambassador Edmond Fitton-Brown labels Iran’s interference in the Strait of Hormuz as piracy. He discusses the global economic threat and the challenges of inv...
S8 Ep588: 3. The final segment shifts to the history of political assassination, specifically the rivalry between Stalin and Trotsky. Stalin utilized state power and paranoia to exile and eventua...
S8 Ep588: 2. The debate continues with a comparison of Emperor Trump to Nero and Claudius, questioning if his current crisis is a result of bad luck or hubris. While Claudius favored low-risk, calc...
S8 Ep588: 1. In Londinium, 92 AD, Gaius and Germanicus analyze the 21st-century conflict between a US-Israeli coalition and Iran, comparing its focus on supply chains to the 1941 oil sanctions agai...
S8 Ep587: 8. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. The victory at Yorktown was secured through Clinton's poor orders and the providential arrival o...
S8 Ep587: 7. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. The entry of France and Spain transformed the rebellion into a global war, forcing Britain to prio...
S8 Ep587: 6. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. Washington’s decision to defend New York, an "indefensible" archipelago, nearly lost the war in it...
S8 Ep587: 5. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. Nathaniel Greene saved the Continental Army from collapse at Valley Forge by stabilizing the food ...
S8 Ep587: 4. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. Thomas Paine’s *Common Sense* revolutionized the rebellion by using plain language to argue that a...
S8 Ep587: 3. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. This narrative explores the tension between conservative and radical leadership, featuring John Di...
S8 Ep587: 2. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. King George III exerted unprecedented power by using £800,000 from the royal treasury to essential...
S8 Ep587: 1. Joseph Ellis, *The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773 to 1783*. The term "the cause" was a verbal canopy used by colonists to unite diverse interest groups, rangi...
S8 Ep586: 8. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. This final excerpt examines how the ...
S8 Ep586: 7. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. The discussion shifts to globalization...
S8 Ep586: 6. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. Hanson analyzes the modern resurgence ...
S8 Ep586: 5. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. This file addresses "evolutionaries" s...
S8 Ep586: 4. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. The focus here is on the "unelected" a...
S8 Ep586: 3. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. Hanson discusses the decline of the Am...
S8 Ep586: 2. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. This segment examines how eroded borde...
S8 Ep586: 1. Author: Victor Davis Hanson. Title: *The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America*. Hanson explores the classical importan...
S8 Ep585: 4 Author: John Bachelor and Sean McMeakin. Title: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II - Yugoslavia, China, and the Cold War Legacy. This episode examines how Stalin outmaneuvere...
S8 Ep585: prolonging the conflict. Author: John Bachelor and Sean McMeakin. Title: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II - Plunder and Infiltration. The discussion highlights the Soviet plund...
S8 Ep585: Author: John Bachelor and Sean McMeakin. Title: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II - Unconditional Surrender and the Katyn Lie. This segment analyzes FDR’s announcement of uncond...
S8 Ep585: Author: John Bachelor and Sean McMeakin. Title: Stalin's War: A New History of World War II - The Hopkins Mission. In this discussion, Professor Sean McMeakin explores how Stalin leverage...
S8 Ep584: 4. David K. Randall, *The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T-Rex and How It Shook Our World*. Between 1904 and 1910, Barnum Brown focused on recovering the missing pieces of the T-Rex ...
S8 Ep584: 3. David K. Randall, *The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T-Rex and How It Shook Our World*. This source describes the intense "bones race" between major museums and their wealthy finan...
S8 Ep584: 2. David K. Randall, *The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T-Rex and How It Shook Our World*. In 1902, Barnum Brown tracked a lead from a photograph of a triceratops skull to Jordan, Mon...
S8 Ep584: 1. David K. Randall, *The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World*. Barnum Brown, born in 1873, was named after showman P.T. Barnum after his brother visited a...
S8 Ep583: WEISBERG4.mp3 Weisberg discusses the evolution of divorce in New York, noting a significant increase during the Gilded Age. The scandal influenced novelist Edith Wharton, Mary’s cousin, w...
S8 Ep583: EISBRG3.mp3 Mary confesses her affair and a pregnancy of uncertain paternity to a stunned Peter. Peter pursues a taboo divorce to gain custody of their children, citing his patriarchal ri...
S8 Ep583: WEISBERG2.mp3 Weisberg details Mary’s growing unhappiness and physical fragility following multiple pregnancies and life at Waverly. The narrative shifts as Mary begins a secret affair wi...
S8 Ep583: WEISBERG1.mp3 Guest Barbara Weisberg introduces her book about Peter Strong and Mary Stevens, two elite New Yorkers who married in 1853. Despite their prominent backgrounds, Mary felt sti...
S8 Ep582: 8. In this final segment, Cline summarizes the rankings of ancient societies based on resilience definitions from the IPCC. He distinguishes between those that "transformed" (the antifr...
S8 Ep582: 7. Cline addresses the vulnerability of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, which served as models for "what not to do" during a crisis. Despite their outward appearance of strength, ...
S8 Ep582: 6. Cline explores the decline of the Minoans on Crete and the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece. Both civilizations are categorized as failures that were internally fragile despite impressive...
S8 Ep582: 5. The conversation details the collapse of the Hittite Empire in central Anatolia. Despite once being equal to Egypt, the Hittites suffered from poor leadership and internal rot, exacerb...
S8 Ep582: 4. This file focuses on the "antifragile" societies that thrived amid chaos: the Phoenicians and Cypriots. The Phoenicians transformed into a maritime powerhouse, establishing colonies li...
S8 Ep582: 3. Cline examines the varying fates of Egypt and emerging Levantine groups after the collapse. Egypt is described as "merely coping," struggling with internal anarchy and a delayed reacti...
S8 Ep582: 2. This interview shifts to the aftermath of the Bronze Age collapse, focusing on the resilience of the Assyrians. Cline attributes their survival to strong leadership and redundant syste...
S8 Ep582: 1. Eric Cline discusses the Late Bronze Age through the lens of the Uluburun shipwreck, which represents the era's globalized trade network. The ship's cargo, including copper from Cyprus...
S8 Ep581: 8. Perpetua and the Shift to Christian Martyrdom (15) In the final segment, Southon discusses Perpetua, a well-born young woman in Carthage who was executed for being a Christian. Roman...
S8 Ep581: 7. Daily Life and Business on the Frontier (13) Moving away from royalty, Southon highlights Julia Felix, a Pompeian property owner who ran a vast entertainment complex featuring "bougie"...
S8 Ep581: 6. Queens of Britain: Cooperation and Resistance (11) Southon compares two female leaders in Roman Britain: Cartimandua and Boudica. Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes, chose to collabor...
S8 Ep581: 5. Julia: The Tool and Rebel of Augustus (9) Augustus used his only daughter, Julia, as a political tool to secure his heirs. He forced her into multiple marriages with potential successo...
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