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You Don't Have to Yell

Jan 13, 2022

Are those who spoke at Trump's January 6 rally guilty of inciting the violence that occurred afterward? John Vile, Dean and Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University joins me to discuss the 200 years of case law that make it difficult to hold someone criminally responsible for what they...


Dec 23, 2021

In this episode, originally released in January of 2020, Ben Studebaker discusses the impact Great Britain's effort to reduce its national debt in the 1800s had on the nation. In this conversation, Studebaker shares his insights into how societies respond to economic change that seem oddly prescient in light of the...


Dec 2, 2021

Americans expect the Supreme Court to be above partisanship, but was this always the case? Rachel Shelden of Penn State discusses how Lincoln appointed his campaign manager to the Supreme Court, how he expanded it to make room for an additional pro-Union justice, and how the desire for a non-partisan court came as...


Richard Nixon - Pioneer of Polarization | Ken Hughes

Jun 24, 2021

Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia discusses how Richard Nixon used the Vietnam War to polarize the American electorate, secure reelection, and turn America from a center left country to a center right one. In this conversation, we learn how much of US politics is about governing by misdirection, and the...


Jun 24, 2021

Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia discusses how Richard Nixon used the Vietnam War to polarize the American electorate, secure reelection, and turn America from a center left country to a center right one. In this conversation, we learn how much of US politics is about governing by misdirection, and the...