THIS WEEK'S SHOW: October 1, 2026
"A juvenility of moral imagination that is at the core of this."
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, 2016
"All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born."
It has been 100 years since Ireland’s Easter Rising, a fascinating, tragic episode that blended literature and liberation, defeat and victory, national reverence and remorse, and, in William Butler Yeats‘s...
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March 24, 2016, 2016
What do we have to learn from the lost world of Germany between the wars?
Pundits from Glenn Beck to Roger Cohen and Chris Hedges have one other discouraged democracy on their minds this election year. They’re thinking of the German government that rose as a fresh democracy in 1919 but failed — amid...
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December 10, 2015, 2015
What happened to America during our thirteen-year dry spell?
What do we remember about America’s thirteen-year war on alcohol at the end of the First World War? Hollywood reminds us of the glamor of both rum-runners and -drinkers, the psychopathic hubris of...